If you’re like us, you spend most of your computing time in the cloud, using online applications. And, if anything, the trend towards online apps is gaining momentum as time passes. The days of desktop applications aren’t gone, but they sure are diminished as more and more web-based applications catch on. There are some apps that we use more than others, though. As 2009 draws to a close, we take a look at the five web applications that we used the most this year.
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Merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate Christmas! And happy holidays to those of you of other faiths! It is Christmas Eve today, and a day on which we would normally be posting a new story. We’re going to be spending time with our families, and take the day off from posting. We hope all of you have an enjoyable holiday season, and we’ll be back on Sunday with a new post.
If you’re like me, you like lists. And if you’re like me, you like year-end lists. In that spirit, as we close out 2009, let’s look at the 10 most popular stories this year here at 40Tech. We’re going to define "most popular" as those stories with the most page views. The page view count represents the total number of times a page was viewed, whether by different people or not. At the end of this post, we’ll look at the most popular posts on the site based on other barometers. These statistics are as of December 21, 2009. Read more
As is apparent from my last article on 40Tech, I have been playing around with a multitude of Google Chrome Extensions since the official beta-door was opened, last week. Last night, I discovered Feedly, a social RSS extension based on Google Reader and Twitter that “organizes your favorite sites into a fun, magazine-like start page” (also available for Firefox). In a word, Feedly is awesome. In two words it is dangerously awesome, or, as the title states, dangerously useful– if you install it for either browser, make sure you set some time aside. You’re going to be there for a while.
40Tech launched on June 4, 2009. While the site is still in its infancy, its growth has been encouraging. We have you to thank for that. Thank you for visiting, and for contributing. In the first days, we were excited about getting 10 visits a day, believe it or not. Today, we’re going to take a brief look at the site’s traffic statistics over those six months, and a few of the lessons we’ve learned from those statistics. We’ll use Google Analytics to look back at our traffic.