{"id":5041,"date":"2010-07-19T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2010\/07\/19\/numbers051\/"},"modified":"2010-07-19T06:00:07","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T11:00:07","slug":"numbers051","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2010\/07\/19\/numbers051\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers, Volume 51"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/btl\/adobe-launches-flash-101-for-mobile-more-than-half-of-all-smartphones-by-2012\/36077\">Flash Mobile Dreams<\/a><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Flash 10.1 is expected to really start taking off on tablets in the second half a year when it is preinstalled.<\/li>\n<li>Adobe is <b>hoping Flash 10.1 will be on 9 to 10 percent of smartphones this year<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>By <b>2011, Flash 10.1 should be on a third of smartphones<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>By <b>2012, Adobe plans to have Flash 10.1 on more than half of all smartphones shipped assuming no major market share changes<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightreading.com\/document.asp?doc_id=193923\">Clear coverage<\/a><br \/><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>Clearwire LLC [aka &#8220;Clear&#8221;] says it now covers 51 million people in 44 cities in the US [though they only report 971,000 customers]<\/b>, following the launch of its mobile WiMax service in seven new cities today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Clear service offers <b>average data downloads of 3 to 6 Mbit\/s, with peaks of 10 Mbit\/s, over its mobile WiMax network<\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using Clear for awhile now. I&#8217;m waiting until I visit some more 3G only cities before writing a review (so far, the 3G coverage doesn&#8217;t work). In the meantime, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cote\/tags\/speedtest\/\">I post speed checks from time-to-time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.information-age.com\/channels\/data-centre-and-it-infrastructure\/news\/1264773\/gartner-pares-it-spending-outlook-on-debt-crisis.thtml\">I predict this prediction will change<\/a><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n  IT analyst company Gartner says that the dollar value of global IT spending in 2010 will be less than it previously thought, due to the devaluation of the euro and Europe&#8217;s sovereign debt crisis.<br \/>\n  <b>It had predicted that worldwide IT spend would reach $3.4 trillion in 2010<\/b> \u2013 a <b>5.3% increase from 2009<\/b>. But it has <b>now cut this figure by 3.9% to $3.35 trillion, which represents a 4.7% yearly increase<\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2010\/07\/12\/microsoft_massive_reorg\/page2.html\">Why pay just once for cloud when you can pay twice?<\/a><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, Talisker comes as research points to the biggest opportunity for cloud being behind the firewall with customers running their own services rather than relying on service provides. <b>IDC found 55 per cent of CIOs prefer private to public, with private clouds accounting for $11.8bn in server revenue by 2014 compared to $718m for private<\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/pinboard.in\/blog\/146\/\">Pinboard.in a year later<\/a><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Here are some of our vital signs, one year in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>3.5 million bookmarks<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>11.2 million tags<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>2.5 million urls<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>187 GB of archived content<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>99.91% uptime (6 hours offline)<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pinboard.in\/u:cote\">I&#8217;ve used Pinboard.in<\/a> for awhile now and I love it.]<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/microformats.org\/2010\/07\/08\/microformats-org-at-5-hcards-rich-snippets\">Don&#8217;t forget about Microformats, they&#8217;re successful!<\/a><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n  Originally brainstormed in September 2004, and rapidly adopted by numerous tools, sites, large and small, the number of pages published with one or more <b>hCards recently crossed the 2 billion mark a few days ago according to Yahoo Search Monkey, making it the most popular format for people or organizations on the web<\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/facebook_dominates_third-party_logins_for_all_but.php\">Your new SSO Overlords<\/a><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>Facebook now leads by nearly three to one with 46% of all social network logins<\/b>. The closest competitor across all sites is <b>Google with 17%<\/b>. <b>Twitter follows behind Google with 14%<\/b>, barely <b>leading Yahoo&#8217;s 13%<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers switch around when we start breaking them down into different categories. <b>Facebook becomes even more dominant, increasing to 52% when we look at entertainment websites<\/b>, with <b>Twitter and Myspace jumping into second and third place<\/b>. For <b>B2B websites<\/b>, the distribution is a bit more even overall, with <b>Facebook taking 37% of the pie and Google, Yahoo and Twitter all coming in with around 18%<\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Disclosure:<\/b> Microsft and Adobe are clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azure goes private, SSO from Facebook, 4G, less IT spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-numbers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}