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Facebook recently announced it's combined email service. You can get the invite using this link

1. Facebook is the second most visited website in the UK after Google, accounting for 6.89% of all visits. 2. In terms of internet pages viewed, Facebook is by far the biggest website in the UK. In total, 16.40% of all page views during September went to a Facebook page. Facebook now accounts for 1 in 6 page views in the UK, that’s twice the number of page views received by Google. 3. Facebook is the most popular social network in the UK, accounting for 55% of all visits to social networks. The nearest competitor is YouTube, which receives 16% of all visits to the category. Facebook is nearly 3.5 times bigger than YouTube in terms of monthly Internet visits in the UK. 4. Facebook is the number one search term in the UK. 3.69% of all searches typed into Google, Yahoo! and Bing are for ‘facebook’. Taking into account variations of Facebook with misspellings and abbreviations such as ‘facbook’, ‘fb’ or ‘facebok’ – Facebook accounts for approximately 6% of all searches in...

The amount by which the social networks are interecting with mobile customers

Voice search in android - 25% users in USA, uses voice for search.

Press event announcing Voice Actions for Android and Chrome to Phone. Starring Hugo Barra, Mike LeBeau, and Dave Burke.

Google goes after Bing? :) Official Google Blog: Freeze frame!

Start from this - Pay people enough, only to take the issue of the money from the table. Then go with meaningfull things (start treating people as people:-) and you will see that the money is not the issue. And the most important things that motivate are: Autonomy - self direction. Mastery - we want to be better at stuff. PURPOSE motive! Dan Pink:

Even Google sometimes fail during their marketing campaign. Always calculate your possible traffic :) On the recent blog post Google refers to it's customer Google apps website:

When choosing your domain name, always double check if it contains more than one word. Or you can get the slur. Experts Exchange – a site where programmers can trade advice – is found at www.expertsexchange.com La Drape – a British company selling high-end quilted bedspreads – is listed at www.ladrape.co.uk American Scrap Metal – a scrap metal recycling firm – has its website at www.angelfire.com/alt/americanscrapmetal Speed of Art – a collective or art designers – are online at www.speedofart.com Therapist Finder – a directory for therapy services – can be located at www.therapistfinder.com

I missed Euro vision song contest show on tv, so I tried to capture the sense from the twitter comments, here they are: "don't ask me about lithuania in Eurovision 'cuz i'm gonna cry. it's really sad. they had to be in the final!" "I don't get why Lithuania didn't get in the finale" "I wish Lithuania had made it through. My Sunday night is incomplete without boys in sequinned hot pants." " Lithuania  were truly robbed " "it is a crime against music that lithuania didn't get through" "Was hoping to watch it unspoilt tonight, but MIL told me the winner. With that, and the LITHUANIA OUTRAGE, I am saying NO to #eurovision." "lithuania better win eurovision next year with another troll song lol I WANT TO SEE IT HAPPEN" "Very disappointed Lithuania didn't get through. I liked their sparkly shorts." "   lithuania  was awesome, but europe sucks and they didnt get thr...

Here is a video: Performance & speed: The new Dalvik JIT compiler in Android 2.2 delivers between a 2-5X performance improvement in CPU-bound code vs. Android 2.1 according to various benchmarks. New enterprise capabilities: We’ve added Exchange capabilities such as account auto-discovery and calendar sync. Device policy management APIs allow developers to write applications that can control security features of the device such as the remote wipe, minimum password, lockscreen timeout etc. Faster, more powerful browser: We have brought the V8 JavaScript engine to the Android browser as part of 2.2. This has resulted in a 2-3X improvement in JavaScript performance vs. 2.1. Rich set of new APIs and services: New data backup APIs enable apps to participate in data backup and restore, allowing an application's last data to be restored when installed on a new or a reset device. Apps can utilize Android Cloud to Device Messaging to enable mobile alert, send to phone, and two...

Full web browser, live search, more personalisation. Google   announced that it's working with Intel, Sony, and Logitech to develop Google TV as an open platform.

The Pirate Bay is suffering some temporary downtime as their bandwidth provider has stopped passing through traffic. A week ago, Hollywood got an injunction to effectively shut down the Pirate Bay by threatening its provider with huge fines. The Pirate Bay team is currently working on a solution. So it;s not the end for the biggest torrent tracker yet...

Great idea, 6 dollars and you get a job ;)

Name: Google Mobile / Location: Pockets and purses Nice one :-)

This is a great fresh example how not to test your product live... Or Volvo crash during presentation:

When google started with the social network product - it failed. Then one guy from his university dorm, tried it - he succeeded. Just think about the name impact - "Orkut" vs. "Facebook" and the whole Cognitive fluency. Offcourse it's not 100% matter, but...

Here you can find presentations in video from Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2010: Key things: Rising optimism :) Promise of mobile Location awareness Html5 new capabilities Work Wants to be Social: 5 Things we have Learnt from SlideShare Disruptors: eCommerce A Conversation with Kevin Lynch - As chief technology officer and senior vice president, Experience & Technology Organization (Adobe) The Facebook Era You May Already Be A Winner Where Web, Mobile, Gaming and Reality Converge Breaking Barriers with Sound - Ge Wang Stanford University The Lean Startup: Innovation Through Experimentation. Not Just for Startups Anymore. Ideas Worth Spreading: TED's Transition from Conference to Platform - June Cohen A Conversation with Paul Buchheit - Paul Buchheit expo Becoming One with Internet Culture - Ben Huh

Rashmi Sinha is cofounder and CEO for SlideShare, the world’s largest professional sharing site. SlideShare is growing rapidly (more than 28 million monthly uniques) letting everyone from marketers, speakers and educators share and connect with others. Before SlideShare, Rashmi cofounded another startup – MindCanvas – a gamelike survey platform. Rashmi has a PhD from Brown University and has experience working with search engines and recommender systems at UC Berkeley. She is a frequent speaker at conferences such as Web 2.0 Expo and Future of Web Apps. She writes a blog at rashmisinha.com about running a startup and social software. Here is a video from web2.0 EXPO:

eCommerce is a term you heard bandied around in 1997 to describe a then-hot segment of the web. Today, well over a decade later, you might assume that eCommerce is stable—even boring. Think again. A new crop of start-ups is reexamining what the web can do for commerce, invigorating the sector with smart analyses and compelling business models. In this set of keynotes, three startups each give a short, sharp presentation to help you understand the important ways they’re disrupting eCommerce. Here is a video from web2.0 EXPO:

As chief technology officer and senior vice president, Experience & Technology Organization, Kevin Lynch oversees Adobe’s experience design and core technology across business units. This role includes driving Adobe’s technology platform for designers and developers across desktops and devices, including Adobe® Flash® Player, Portable Document Format (PDF), Adobe Flex® and Adobe AIR™ Here is a video from web2.0 EXPO:

Clara helped kick off the Social CRM movement in 2007 with her Faceconnector application, which integrates Facebook and Salesforce CRM. She is author of the newly released bestseller, The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Build Better Products, Reach New Audiences, and Sell More Stuff about Facebook and Twitter for business, which has been featured in The New York Times, Entrepreneur Magazine, CRM Magazine, and is being used as a textbook at Stanford and Harvard Business School. Here is a video from web2.0 EXPO:

Erin McKean likes to call herself a Dictionary Evangelist. She is the CEO of the new online dictionary Wordnik and the editor of VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly. Previously, she was Chief Consulting Editor, American Dictionaries for Oxford University Press. Here is a video from web2.0 EXPO:

The days of multiple gadgets, devices and laptops are numbered. Today’s consumers are looking for technology that works across any platform and can control multiple devices. The convergence of technology hardware and software is enabling consumers to combine work and play anywhere at any time. No longer tethered to a video game console, a growing number of consumers are playing when and where the mood strikes them. Taking an activity like remote-controlled aircraft to an entirely new level, the Parrot AR.Drone combines consumers’ love of mobile technology with the spirit of adventure in gaming environment. The Parrot AR.Drone, a quadricopter piloted with an iPhone or iPod touch, allows consumers to fly in a real-world environment while simultaneously playing a video game from the device’s screen. The Parrot AR.Drone combines the best of today’s wireless, video and gaming technologies. Parrot North America executive, Christian Coly will address how video gaming convergence will get ...

Keynote by Ge Wang, Assistant Professor, Stanford University and Co-founder, CTO, Chief Creative Officer, Smule.

Lessons Learned Eric Ries is the author of the blog Lessons Learned. He was the co-founder and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU, his third startup. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups including pbWiki, Smule, 750i and KaChing. - Eric Ries Here is a video from web2.0 EXPO:

In 2006—after 22 years as an exclusive, expensive event—TED began releasing talks from the conference online, for free. Rather than sinking TED’s business model, this strategy of radical openness grew its audience from 1000 attendees to 150 million users worldwide, evolving the organization from an event to a global platform for spreading ideas. June Cohen led TED’s transition online, and will share the inside story of how the organization has architected these changes and managed the unexpected growth. Here is a video from web2.0 EXPO:

Paul Buchheit from Facebook at web2.0 EXPO: Here is a video:

The last century created sitcoms and TV shows. This generation is searching for our own, and the Internet is ready to give it to them. Here is a video from web2.0 EXPO:

Visa payWave is a new payment feature that lets you check out faster since you don’t need to fumble for cash. With Visa payWave, you simply wave your Visa card in front of a secure reader, and you're on your way. Most of the time, a signature is not required for purchases under $25, plus, you retain control of the card during the transaction, which reduces the risk of fraud. Visa already released a similar technology in Malaysia and Japan .  Last year, for example, the company teamed up with Nokia and Maybank, a leading financial institution in Malaysia, to offer Visa payWave on mobile devices. But at the time, the company claimed that several barriers to U.S. adoption still remained, many of which had to due with the limited adoption of NFC-enabled devices and terminals here in the U.S. (NFC, or near field communications, is a wireless communication technology that enables data exchanges between devices. The technology is popular overseas in Europe and Asia, but has yet to catch...

51% of Twitter users follow brands While just 16% of users on other social networks follow them. On another hand, where can you achieve more results easily? by Edison

I use few browsers at once (i have reasons for that...) what I want to have in Google Chrome is "page title bar on the top". How to enable it? Launch Chrome, then click on the wrench to the right of the address bar. Then go to Options, and then the Personal Stuff tab. You’ll see the setting to change at the bottom of that window. Simply click the circle next to Use system title bar and borders.

Hibernation is a power-saving state designed primarily for laptops. I was using it in windows xp a lot. Now in Windows 7 it's gone... And not so easy to fix this, without know how: 1. Open Command Prompt with Administrator rights. To open Command Prompt, type CMD in Start menu and then hit Ctrl + Shift + Enter to open the Command Prompt with Admin rights. 2. Next, type the below command and hit enter: powercfg /hibernate on This will enable Hybernate support in your Windows 7. If you can’t see the Hibernate option in Start menu then do the following tasks: 1) Type Power Options in Start menu and hit enter. 2)  In the left pane, open the link labeled “Change when the computer sleeps” and then open the link “Change advanced power settings”. 3) Under the Advanced Sleep options, expand the Sleep tree and turn off Hybrid Sleep. 4) Now go back to Start menu to see the new Hibernate entry. I hope this helps,

In social media we always ask - What is the monetary value of these fans or how to monetize them. For example - What did Starbucks gain, then invested in it's Facebook fan base - acquired in part with several big ad buys. Now it;s  6.5 million fan base which is worth $23.4 million in media annually . How we get this number - The company's findings are based on: impressions generated in the Facebook news feed the stream of recent updates from users' networks. Brand's 1 million fans generate about $300,000 in media value each month. Stats, by "Virtue"

Duplicate content in Google. If you have a product catalog, and a single "sales page" with the same products. Should you add this page to robots.txt and block it? Google say as always focus to the end users - they like sales product pages, and if it is single or few of them that it doesn't matter

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort H. Albright

Steve Jobs made it clear - "Adobe’s Flash products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Adobe, and Adobe has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, etc. While Adobe’s Flash products are widely available, this does not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by Adobe and available only from Adobe. By almost any definition, Flash is a closed system." You can read full story here

Next month I will go to Bremen, Germany for a long weekend. Recently we bought some cheap flight tickets via Ryanair from Kaunas > Bremen. What do you recommend to do there? Probably some great pubs? :-)

Last March 12 manufacturers were responsible for 34 Android devices though only two, the HTC Dream and HTC Magic comprised 96% of total traffic. This year, that 96% was shared between 11 devices. The Motorola Druid has the most traffic, at 32%. What does it mean for advertisers or Apple? AdMob stats show: "Android ad traffic in the U.S. was 46% in March of this year versus iPhone's 32%. Android's ad traffic has grown 32% per month, rising from 72 million requests in March of last year to two billion last month. " Although the fact that advertisers in the U.S. have elected to put more ads on Android than iPhone is a good indicator as to the desirability of that platform, Apple is still ahead of Google overall. Apple indicated that the company had sold 8.75 million iPhones in that three-month period.  Android sold seven million in the whole of last year.  You can download full report here

It took me time to figure out, how to "minimize all active application" on windows seven. Show desktop icon is now near the clock on the right...  So Microsoft, why did you move show desktop icon in windows 7? :-)

Why I love open market... Video shows everything, guys from http://linuxoniphone.blogspot.com/ loaded Android OS on iPhone 3G.

Any chance you'll have a couple of spare plasma TVs lying around anyway, and a couple of windows you can fit them into. Then, with a Wiimote, your view out the "windows" will be altered depending on your movements, tracked via a (albeit awkward-looking) necklace.

"The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet." again - The cloud future? Device acting as sensors for intelligent data collection Devices whose UI is on the web rather than the device Feeding data into multiple online service that will turn into a full-on sensor web Setting the stage for robotics, augmented reality, and the next generation of personal electronics. Tim O'Reilly Explains the Internet of Things:

Learn to present like Steve Jobs in 2 minutes: All time most common words mix in video: Mere mortals, un be lie vible, HUGE, would'n it be..., Pretty cool huh? :-)

How does Google do at SEO for google.com? Google does: it is one of the most linked domains on the web (during 2008). Interesting facts: Google doesn't have any team members that works on SEO things ;-) And Google optimizes for the user experience. Funny thing is that In the SEO report CArd: 1) search result presentation 2) URLs and redirects 3)On-page optimizations Many google products missed basics ;) Like no right meta tags, LOTS of duplicate content , like all working examples of Google books without redirects. Title tags - without real simple product name. One great rule you must know - product logo, should link to the RIGHT page. Most of the google pages doesn't have it either. BAD example - Google mobile adds logo, linked to the 404 error page :) Here is a video straight from Google to you:

I like Kevin Spacey a LOT. And here is probably the best video (not the best with him) about twitter, and tweets.

What will facebook would look like for older people? Like pensions style? :)

Azerbaijani puts adds on facebook to promote the song "Drip drop".

Recent new from twitter - new service called "Promoted Tweet" Initially, the ads will start with search: Advertisers will be able to buy keywords, and when those keywords are searched for, the Promoted Tweet will appear at the top of the search results.  This form of advertising will work across all Twitter applications and clients The implementation won't be especially annoying, especially the first part.   This seems like a no-brainer--we're surprised it took so long. It seems that As long as the Promoted Tweet appears at the top of the search stream, people will immediately get used to it.

Recent stats from "Experian simmons" shows huge online growth in video. Which takes more and more DVD rental users.: "Online streaming video and downloading technology enables instant gratification, which is something that U.S. consumers seem to relish to the fullest. For the past year and a half, online video streaming and downloading activity has been on a continuous rise, with 31% more U.S. adults today watching streaming video online and 30% more U.S. adults downloading movies online." We also can see the decrease of 14% in the number of adults who rented DVD/Blu Ray disks through a retail store, we can safely say that consumers are embracing online video in rapidly increasing numbers. Since the end of September 2008 until now, the percent of American adults downloading video to their mobile phones has increased by a relative 385%.

Opera today announced that its browsers are now used by more than 100 million people worldwide, saying that the distribution between mobile and desktop users is a nearly even split at 50 million a piece. While 50 million desktop users means just a tiny fraction of the browser market for home users, 50 million mobile users actually represents a dominance in the mobile browser market and still we are waiting for it's app available on iPhone which will be huge success. 

Thinking about your web user database, or when you use CRM, or calculating average conversion rates - always remember, that The average is irrelevant. Great post by Seth godin : "When you can't figure out the best way to treat all your customers, the best way to price things, the best thing to offer, realize that the problem is almost always this: you're trying to treat everyone the same. Don't. Break them into groups with similar attributes, and suddenly the path becomes a lot more clear."

Top keyword trends consumers were searching about apple iPad: 1) ipad 2) apple ipad 3) ipad tablet 4) ipad reviews 5) apple ipad tablet 6) ipad price 7) ipad disappointment 8) new apple ipad 9) ipad apple 10) ipad review cnet (Hitwise data)

It's worth it to publish.  Rule 1 : Life is not fair -- get used to it! Rule 2 : The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both. Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping -- they called it opportunity. Rule 6 : If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them. Rule 7 : Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generati...

Adding relevant tools for your blog or website is simple - like "facebook" share button which can add traffic for your website. How to do this? Please just follow this link

Here you can find latest video from apple iPhone OS 4 presentation recap with Steve Jobs.

You can see nice results from the testing machine on this video: Not only google nexus one, Iphone but Palm and more

This is the largest open source migration effort ever. Symbian development is currently dominated by Nokia, but the foundation hoped to reduce the firm's input to "no more than 50%" by the middle of 2011 The foundation includes Nokia, AT&T, LG, Motorola, NTT Docomo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone.