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Written By: Sol Young on February 3, 2009 View Comments

Since December I thought it was pretty clear OS X would own 10 percent of the operating system market share by the end of January. So yesterday, in Chinatown browsing my iPhone and trying jellyfish tendrils for the first time, I opened marketshare.hitslink.com and discovered OS X was more→

Written By: Sol Young on January 15, 2009 View Comments

December Trends - from marketshare.hitslink.com

I described in December that Market Share for Apple would hit 9.5% at the end of December and break 10% in January. So far Apple exceeded expectations and reached 9.63% in December. That’s a 0.76% gain of the operating system market in one month!

Look for January to carry another increase and for…

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Written By: Sol Young on December 31, 2008 View Comments

Apple Metrics

Apple’s OS X operating system base grew by 0.66% between October and November to 8.87%. If they simply maintained the prior month’s pace, they will reach 9.5% in December and 10.1% in January (assuming a continued consumption of 0.6% from other operating systems per month).

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Written By: Sol Young on November 27, 2008 View Comments

Michael Lewis’s article The End is covering Portfolio’s December issue. It’s a fantastic read on his forecasting the death of Wall Street back in the eighties in his book Liar’s Poker.

It highlights many of the insanities and irrational modes of operation amongst the firms of Wall Street and is an entertaining…

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Written By: Sol Young on September 3, 2008 View Comments

Been using Google’s Chrome browser for a day, and so far it’s a great experience.

No. Sorry. That’s an understatement. It’s revolutionary. As the comic describes (yes, Google released a comic to introduce Chrome), this browser takes the web to impossible places. It makes the web more like an operating system, allowing each…

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Written By: Sol Young on August 4, 2008 View Comments

The New York Times published Say So Long to an Old Companion on the 28th of July.

The image above is the invitation from the audio department at Hachette for a party to mourn (read: celebrate) the passing of the cassette technology. Their final audiobook released on cassette was “Sail,” by James…

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Written By: Sol Young on June 22, 2008 View Comments

BlackBerry 8800 GPS

Most smartphones slated for release over the next 12-months include a GPS receiver, built in. After that, it will be a marked failure to not include a GPS in a phone. The functionality that comes with GPS is outstanding – mapping, directions, location based experiences, etc. We’re about to enter an age of advancement…

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Written By: Sol Young on May 20, 2008 View Comments

I don’t usually get in to philosophical scientific stuff here, but this was just too fun to write about…

Flux Capacitor

image of flux capacitor intended as a joke – time dilation not included

There is a certain problem with time travel that a software engineer or sys admin will automatically understand. It has…

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Written By: Sol Young on April 22, 2008 View Comments

Black Holes

While doing my typical searches for new and interesting people on Twitter to add to the flow, I noticed something indicative of Spring cleaning. You see, when you search Twitter, you usually get pages of people who haven’t updated in a year or accounts with zero updates – ever – and six months stale.…

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Written By: Sol Young on April 1, 2008 View Comments
iChat Count 386 – 7 minutes

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When following a lot of friends in a flow environment and using XMPP, one sees the above numbers in less than ten minutes. I’d been using Adium, but Adium doesn’t smooth scroll between each received tweet. It constantly jerks messages upwards and has made it virtually impossible to have…

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Written By: Sol Young on April 1, 2008 View Comments

I’m used to the speed of the flow and it’s slow. It’s time to open it up and look for five-figures…

Useful link: flow entries

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Open it up

I read the flow of XMPP Twitter traffic with breakfast and in the evenings. I then scan it when checking…

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Written By: Sol Young on March 30, 2008 View Comments

Day 7 – The flow rises, but as it gets faster I just want more… I wonder what Scoble’s flow is like…

Here are my previous flow entries so you’re up to speed:

Volcano Magma

I’m visiting my…

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Written By: Sol Young on March 30, 2008 View Comments

Keyboard

Something that has piqued my interest in the last year are trends for technology professionals overseas, especially Asia. I’m not an expert on the subject, but I believe it’s important to have an understanding of where the worlds employment markets are…

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Written By: Sol Young on March 27, 2008 View Comments

Day 4 brings inspiration – this type of stream is like the Internet before Google…

A Flowing Pipe

It’s been 4 days with a flow approach to receiving data. I skipped adding more people today and focused on getting used to the incoming content. It’s become easy to…

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Written By: Sol Young on March 23, 2008 View Comments

Pitchfork Tines Bronze

As developers, if you’re building services your customers can share, you need to plan on announcement integration.

I keep thinking back to February when I wanted a better way to integrate Twitter. Others wonder about Twitter being a source of lost content, as Cartoon Barry more→

Written By: Sol Young on March 6, 2008 View Comments

CHiPsI was very pleased by a question in today’s press Q&A at Apple’s iPhone SDK release announcement. I posted the other day about the iPhone SDK being in development since before WWDC ‘07. The question pertained directly to my thoughts, “Why did you change your mind about the iPhone open SDK? How long will…

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Written By: Sol Young on March 3, 2008 View Comments

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The iPhone SDK has been a long time coming. Apple has been working on it since before last June’s WWDC ‘07, despite pushing the “You can build amazing web applications” message. The reason for pushing the only-web-apps decree was because the API, tool-chains, development environment, etc, weren’t ready.

Back at WWDC ‘07 the development…

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Written By: Sol Young on February 25, 2008 View Comments

FriendFeed

Added FriendFeed as a combinatorial service. You can get all my updates and information in one single location there. There will be tons of these sites very soon, followed by an inevitable shakeout. Should be interesting see who and how the best of these services connect.

http://friendfeed.com/sol You can follow my blog, Google Reader,…

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Written By: Sol Young on February 23, 2008 View Comments

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Yesterday I asked the question, “Random House DRM-free a hoax? The question was based on Cory Doctorow’s post announcing a big move by Random House towards DRM-free MP3 audiobooks. The PDF on his site links to a letter by Madeline McIntosh detailing the move to…

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Written By: Sol Young on February 22, 2008 View Comments

While it seems many are rejoicing over the supposed announcement of Random House going DRM-free, it also seems this could be hoax. BoingBoing, care of Cory Doctorow, brought the story to light. But something doesn’t smell right…

Don’t get me wrong – this would be groundbreaking and very fast for…

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Written By: Sol Young on February 17, 2008 View Comments

Tim O’Reilly twittered this article on the five reasons Nokia should put a bid in on Yahoo!

I’d go for that. I’ve written about what I like about Yahoo! and the reasons I like them as a company without search. Nokia making a play for Yahoo! makes sense. It creates…

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Written By: Sol Young on February 13, 2008 View Comments

Pic of IT walking awayI’m reading more and more about IT in Asia having trouble retaining technically competent employees. Salaries are growing to impressive levels. In Singapore, salaries are closing in on Silicon Valley levels. With the present competition for talent growth in that country, salaries will soon be greater there.

<prediction>We won’t be looking at…

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