Another month has passed. With that, a look back on the recent happenings in 2010.
Canonical has packaged and released Ubuntu 10.04 LTS “Lucid Lynx” to the masses. Changes include removing HAL, a new open-source NVIDIA driver, and integration of social networking (Twitter, Facebook) into the operating system.
HP bought Palm. Not much else to say on that. (Insert HP versus Palm product quality joke here.)
Apple release their new MacBook Pro lineup in April. The new laptops include the Core i5 and i7-series processors, a welcome change for many Apple enthusiasts, from what I’ve heard. They also released the iPad. I won’t go too much into that, apart from it being the last Apple product I would ever own.
Chrysler and NASA have agreed to collaborate on automotive/space exploration technologies which will apparently benefit both companies.
Everything else happened in February.
A lot of my customers have been asking me more social media questions than actual website development requests. The advent of websites is taking on a shorter form of popularity where the big ones (Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, Twitter, Digg, etc etc) are grabbing most peoples’ attentions.
This is mostly related to the fact that social websites are personable. This makes them a lot more interesting to come back to. Social networks do not pay their users to blog, nor do they need to really work for their popularity (short of coding a simple social framework dependent on the type of websites).
Recent news is that that Facebook has overtaken Google in total monthly visitors. This is an incredible example of the power of social networks.
I just hope that we’re not going to have another login fiasco.
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