Mashable reminds us that it’s been a year since Google Reader has been decommissioned. They are also doing a survey to find out if people use more of RSS feeds now or less, what they’ve substituted it with and which tools people are using now to follow their favorite feeds. I’ve completed the survey, but … Continue reading A year without Google Reader
Google is releasing some stats at their Google I/O event. According to The Next Web, they’ve now switched from device activation counters to 30-day user activity metric. Here’s how the growth over the last few years looks like: That’s a lot in my book. With about 7 billion people living in the world, that’s 1 … Continue reading Android now has 1 billion active users
This accident has recently came up in a conversation I had with a few friends. Surprisingly, it’s not as widely known as I thought it was. Read through the Wikipedia page for more details. The Überlingen mid-air collision occurred at 21:35 UTC on 1 July 2002 between Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 (a Tupolev Tu-154M passenger … Continue reading Überlingen mid-air collision
As many of you already know, I’ve spent most of the last week in Berlin, Germany, attending the International PHP Conference 2014. Here’s the short story: it was another great event (yes, I’ve attended this conference before). The conference seems to grow and mature. There were plenty of engaging speakers and insightful topics. If you … Continue reading International PHP Conference 2014, Berlin, Germany
Those of us who are of legal drinking age know how to tell a good party from the bad one – if you passed out and can’t remember most of the evening, then you must have had a really good time. If you were home in time for evening news – you don’t know how … Continue reading Party hard!