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Macintosh rumor site MacRumors has published a report about the bandwidth saved by using an AJAX enabled page to update content during Macworld 2006 in San Francisco. Previously MacRumors, along with many other sites, would use page refreshing to reload the page every 30 seconds which of course causes increased server activity when thousands of people are viewing the site. By using AJAX to deliver updated content MacRumors was able to reduce the resources needed.
We peaked at approximately 103,000 simultaneous web visitors and 6,000 IRC viewers during the Keynote speech and transmited over 32 GB of data in a three hour period. If not for the efficiency of the MacRumorsLive AJAX update system, the same webcast would have required approximately twice as many servers and would have had to transfer almost 6 times as much data (196 GB).
AJAX really is more than fading yellow boxes or the latest buzzword, used correctly it can save bandwidth which in turn saves money.
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By the 1980s, we were supposed to travel by jet-pack while robot housekeepers cooked our meals. At least that’s the high-tech view of the future that science fiction writers presented in the 1950s. Today, the future isn’t such a distant vision: it’s happening in our lifetimes.
The Lemelson-MIT Program, which celebrates innovation and inventors, recently polled high school students on their view of the future. Virtually all of them predicted dramatic technological advancements during their lifetimes and most felt comfortable dealing with those rapid changes.
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This is another one of those exponential growth markets. The story is here. There were one million people in the U.S. downloading podcasts in 2004. There were five million in 2005. This is projected to grow to 9.3 million in 2006 and 20.9 million people in 2007. By 2010, this number is projected to be 62.8 million.
Exponential growth in markets creates exponential growth in marketing. It will get interesting. Oh, and by the way, anybody thinking this is a geeks-only market should read the story. The most likely to have listened to a podcast in the last week were women.
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The Steve Jobs 2006 Macworld keynote begins in just a little under two hours, this is the day of the year that Mac faithful stop whatever they’re doing for about an hour to watch their screens refresh. Of course it wasn’t that long ago we could actually watch the event live via QuickTime but I guess Steve doesn’t like all that attention. Rumors this year span everything from gigantic 50” plasma displays with OS X built in to iBooks sporting Intel processors, but the one I’m hoping for is a new Mac Mini with DVR functionality built-in.
If you can’t wait for the rest of the tech news sites to post the new Apple gadgetry there are plenty of sites to keep open starting at 9 am pacific time. Mac Rumors, MacScoop, Gizmodo and Engadget have all been known to provide pretty good live coverage in the past.
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Skype, the free phone company, recently surpassed a quarter of a billion free downloads of their calling software. As recently as October of 2005, 170,000 people per day were accessing the download.
Skype is legal and it is free. Skype uses VoIP technology to place calls over the Internet. To use Skype for free you need the software and a computer, and the person you are calling needs the software and a computer, too. The easiest way to converse is to use a headset connected to the computers at each end of the call.
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