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Facebook Crowned as Most Visited U.S. Site, A SXSW Twitter Walk-Out

by Warren Riddle on March 16, 2010 at 11:58 AM


Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines....
  • According to online marketing firm Hitwise, Facebook has supplanted Google as the most visited site in the United States. While its seemingly infinite communicative tools continue to encroach on the popularity of Google and Gmail, the social networking behemoth can't claim complete U.S. dominance just yet, as Google still attracts more unique visitors. [From: Tech Crunch and The Financial Times]
  • Twitter's short-attention-span platform apparently carries over to reality, as hordes of bored nerds exited en masse from the South by Southwest keynote event featuring Twitter CEO Evan WIlliams. Most observers placed the blame squarely on interviewer Umair Haque, who has been getting lambasted by the blogging nerd-osphere. [From: Gawker and NBC Bay Area]
  • Rhapsody is developing a new app for the iPhone, and the music streaming service will apparently allow users to actually store songs for playback. The music cache will significantly increase battery life, as the offline mode will not drain as much as power as cell or Wi-Fi activity. [From: Wired]
  • It may be a collateral effect of the massive hype and publicity surrounding the iPad, but Apple is experiencing a sales boom for a variety of its devices. According to marketing firm Piper Jaffray, January and February sales of Macs skyrocketed 39-percent over the sales from the same period last year. iPod sales also increased during the two-month period, the first such rise for the gadget in over a year. [From: Engadget]
  • Apple is not only in the midst of a highly successful sales period, but the company has also earned some significant bragging rights over one of its primary competitors. Research firm Crowd Science is contending that an astounding 40-percent of BlackBerry owners would rather have an iPhone. (But maybe those people just aren't aware of the BlackBerry's superior life-saving capabilities.) [From: Ars Technica]
  • The perennial, public disputes between Apple and Google have apparently devolved into a childish, personal spat. A weekend piece in the New York Times categorized the corporate feud (featuring Apple's Steve Jobs and Google's Eric Schmidt as the main event) as being "fierce" and "heated." Tim Bray, an Android software developer, ratcheted up the intensity when he labeled Apple's approach to the Internet as "a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers." Zing! [From: Engadget]

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