If you torture numbers long enough, you can make them say anything. In this case, it’s Chitika, Techcrunch, and others who are raising alarms about something that’s relatively meaningless, particularly to Microsoft. The title of the Chitika post is “Demise of the PC? Windows Web Browsing Market Share Declines by 10% in Six Months”. Their data is solid and appears to be completely accurate. The conclusion, resounding what has been spoken many times by many experts, is that the PC is dying a slow death.. No. It’s not. The rise of mobile devices and the popularity of Apple products has clearly opened…

For the first time, we’re spending more time in mobile applications than surfing the web via desktop or mobile browsers, according to a new report. It’s worth noting that this report comes from Flurry, whose business model rests on ever-increasing mobile app use. (From the company’s site: “Flurry increases the size and value of mobile application audiences, helping more than 40,000 companies in over 75,000 applications on iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone 7 platforms.”) But even so, the news is likely either true or pretty close to it. Consider that the sales of smartphones and tablets…

Every so often, almost like clockwork, someone will come out and say that the internet is ruining everything. This week, it’s the New York Times’  Bill Keller, who fears that “we may be unlearning, tweet by tweet… complexity, acuity, patience, wisdom, intimacy” The usual response to this from web-heads and technologists is a slightly more nuanced version of “OMG, Bill Keller is soooo stupid!”. And given the number of times it happens, that’s understandable. It gets frustrating to see people repeating the same arguments over and over again. Yet, at the same time, people are clearly worried….

Most of us spend a great deal of time on the Internet. It has become the most prevalent activity during our waking hours for millions. When you look closely at the statistics, most fall in line with our expectations (likely due to the information we’ve seen somewhere before on the Internet regarding the subject), but some things may be surprising. Did you know that 1% of people who do not use the Internet say they don’t because they are scared of catching a virus? This graphic by our friends at SiteJabber lines out many of these statistics for us. It’s an interesting look into the mass-mind that has turned…

Technology will always be a generational thing with the twenty- and thirty-somethings of any particular time-period leading the way and watching their early adoptions spread to younger and older people. It’s just the way of speed – those with money and technological know-how try it first and lead the way for the rest. This graphic by our friends at SiteJabber breaks down the generational gaps and demonstrates how people are using the web. The important thing to take away here: everyone is using the web. Young, old, big, small – it doesn’t matter. The world is getting webby, and not in the Spiderman…

2010 is a big year for the internet. The number of people browsing the world wide web will reach and surpass 2 billion, nearly a third of the world’s population. That number has doubled in the past five years alone, with 226 million new internet users this year alone. The International Telecommunication Union released figures highlighting the importance of the internet, particularly in developing nations. The figures show that 71% of people in developed countries are online, compared with only 21% in developing nations. The ITU says it’s particularly important for developing countries to…

Video and the web go together like oil and water. Users want simple, accessible video on all their devices. Providers want.. well, money, lots of it, and historically they’ve been unwilling to budge. Well, the working group determined to create a consumer-friendly media network finally has a name and a logo. The name is UltraViolet, and the group, comprised of big names such as Microsoft, TimeWarner, Sony and Intel are hoping that by 2011 their product will be on computers and in living rooms around the world. The group, also known as the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (or DECE) is missing…

If you are a web designer then Apple’s mobile devices can help you work better, smarter — and out of the office. Here’s six apps you really should take time to get to know. 1. Ego $1.99 This is a splendid app (image above) not just for a developer but for anyone who has ever run a Google search on their name, which is everybody (but me) obviously. Ego watches the social web: Ember, Feedburner, Google Analytics, Mint, Squarespace, Tumblr, Twitter and Vimeo. It lets you track the number of visits to your website (including daily, hourly and monthly numbers), feed subscription totals and changes,…

I’ve been using Adobe software for nearly as long as I’ve been using Apple computers, so I fancy myself as ideally positioned to comment on the Apple/Adobe brouhaha that reached new heights last week with Steve Jobs’ open letter about Flash. The thing is, I don’t really want to. To take sides in this debate will only label me as a fanboy or apologist one way or another. These are two companies whose primary goal is to make money – neither acts out of generosity or benevolence. The truth is I love Apple hardware and I use Adobe’s Creative Suite more frequently than any other software. No matter what you…

The web has been around for some time now, and the world is divided into two camps: people who get it, and people who don’t. If you open a browser, type ‘google.com’ in the address bar and then type ‘facebook.com’ into the Google search box, you don’t really ‘get’ the web. Google is hoping to rectify that, with a small, and fairly obvious change that no one has ever really thought too much about. Their Chrome browser no longer displays the ‘http://’ in front of the domain name in the address bar. The change has caused a stir in the web nerd community, with accusations of dumbing down the web, and questions…