It’s finally happened — a podcast on LaptopMemo, recorded in conjunction with Cam the Techtainian. Today we covered some of this week’s more interesting news and posts, as well as our three random things on the internet of interest and/or epicness. Check out the podcast and notes are after the break!
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Update: Mozilla Firefox 10 Now Available
With Mozilla’s new launch cycle of every six weeks, Firefox 10 is not much of a jump from previous versions. There are bug fixes, minor improvements, and a few user interface switches. Also, according to Mozilla, updates will change versions once every seven releases, making the next release due around November, essentially meaning Firefox 11. Keep in mind this forced effort is mainly a response to get Firefox back to the honorable position it once was in; Google Chrome has taken Mozilla’s spot of world’s second favorite browser, with Internet Explorer being first. Via: Mozilla
Etymology Man Arrives To Rescue xkcd
This is a fantastic piece of work at xkcd. Best one in a while, in fact. Via: xkcd
Mozilla is fine-tuning their Firefox start page
Mozilla is doing what Google can with Chrome, and they can’t. That is, have a fast launch cycle (multiple versions of the browser in the month or in a quarter), whilst keeping all parts of the software polished. An example of this is Firefox’s start page — it has stayed almost the same since a decade ago, when it first launched. And so it shall change. A full preview of all of the new elements is available at the source link. Via: ExtremeTech
YouTube Now Sees 4 Billion Pageviews Per Day
In what Google could possibly only deem as fantastic news, it has now been reported by Reuters that YouTube sees more than 4 billion views per day. That is a 25% increase in videos viewed per day since May, with 60 hours of fresh video uploaded each minute, up from 48 hours of video added per minute in May, previously. Ads on videos generate $5 billion weekly, albeit only 3 billion videos feature ads each week. This massive growth spurt is attributed to extensive usage of YouTube on smartphone and TV.
World IPv6 launch set: June 12th, 2012 with Google, Facebook, and AT&T starting it off
Mark your calendars: June 12th, 2012 is the launch date of the new IPv6. To help with the internet’s explosive growth and tiny amount of IP addresses left to keep it functioning, the Internet Society will permanently switch IPv6 on to add millions if not billions of additional IP addresses. From day one, several tech manufacturers, web services, and internet providers will start switching to the new protocol. Launch partners include IPv6: Google, Facebook, Microsoft Bing, and Yahoo. From a hardware perspective of the situation, Cisco and D-Link are both committed to enabling IPv6 across their range of home products by June, as well.
Even if you don’t think this affects you directly, this is actually very good news for the future of the Internet as a whole. Keep in mind that fewer IP address conflicts means a happier and faster Internet. Via: Internet Society
The Restart Page is a glorious look into the OSes of computing
Simply the best full-screen you could probably see in your browser window today (I’m saying you should see it in full-screen), The Restart Page displays the many restart prompts of OSes of today and those of long ago.
Via: The Restart Page
GoDaddy Is Officially Removed From The SOPA Supporters List
GoDaddy. A hypocritical company hell bent on always making money, despite what the means are. Unfortunately, they’re my current hosting and domain hosting provider (something that will change), but in the meantime, they have officially been removed from the SOPA supporter’s list, as part of their PR campaign to save face. Nice try, clowns. Via: TC
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