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IE6 w Polsce poniżej 1%

2011-10-02T18:01:01Z

Polska jest piątym krajem na świecie, który zszedł z użyciem IE6 poniżej 1%

Nick Bilton Turns Down $1.5 Million+ From CBS/CNET, Stays At NY Times

2011-10-02T04:08:56Z

Nick Bilton, the NY Times lead technology writer, may be one of the most heavily recruited tech writers around. He was our number one most desired hire while I was at TechCrunch. And apparently at CNET, too. He turned down an offer from CNET and parent company CBS that would have given him over $1.5 million in total compensation, says a source.

Instead, he elected to stay at the NY Times earning, by my estimate, significantly less than $150,000 per year.

CBS was looking for Bilton to do regular tv bits on technology, and write heavily for CNET, for an annual salary of over $500,000, says the source. In addition, I’ve heard, CBS subsidiary Simon & Schuster was to purchase the rights to his upcoming book to be titled “Owned,” which is about “the end of privacy and ownership.” Bilton’s first book, I Live in the Future & Here’s How It Works: Why Your World, Work & Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted, will be available in paperback shortly.

But he hasn’t done a book deal around Owned yet. Simon & Schuster, says a source, was going to pay him “seven figures,” or at least $1,000,000, for the book.

A source close to CBS says these figures are wildly inaccurate. A Simon & Schuster deal around Owned was only “a possilibity, not a reality,” says the source. And the total CBS/CNET combined compensation was in the $300,000 per year range, not $500,000+.

Either way, it was quite a potential raise.

Bilton did manage to get a new job at the NY Times out of this, at least. He’ll become a weekly technology and business columnist, and will continue to blog. Last year he wrote some 350 blog posts and about 50 print articles. Now he’ll focus on the weekly column and write only occasionally on the blog, I hear.

I know TechCrunch was also aggressively pursuing Bilton, as was the Huffington Post (perhaps competing with each other, who knows). Other publications were also actively pursuing him as well.

Not bad for a guy who never got a journalism degree, or any other degree. Bilton’s background is in design. And he’s one of the best writers the NY Times has. They’re lucky to have kept him.

Konkurs: stwórz aplikację do Chrome Web Store

2011-09-20T13:25:01Z

Od kilku dni Chrome Web Store jest już oficjalnie dostępny w Polsce. Aby skusić polskich deweloperów do publikowania na tej platformie, Google ogłosił konkurs na aplikację do Chrome Web Store.

W konkursie mogą brać udział programiści indywidualni, bądź w maksymalnie trzyosobowych zespołach. Najciekawsze aplikacje konkursowe (w kategoriach rozrywka, społeczność/komunikacja, edukacja, narzędzia) będą promowane na stronie głównej polskiego sklepu Chrome Web Store. Na zwycięzców czekają też tablety Motorola Xoom. Konkurs potrwa 2 miesiące, aplikacje można zgłaszać do 19 listopada 2011 r. Wyniki zostaną ogłoszone na początku grudnia 2011 r.

Więcej informacji, regulamin i formularz znajdziecie na stronie konkursu.

Windows 8: Microsoft's browser-based OS (Sebastian Anthony/ExtremeTech)

2011-09-13T16:45:11Z

Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:
Windows 8: Microsoft's browser-based OS — Just a few moments ago, Steven Sinofsky took to the stage at the Anaheim Conference Center in California and announced the imminent arrival of Windows 8 Developer Preview. If you want a sneak peek at the OS itself, check out our hands-on slideshow of its key features.

Bad Taste ... I'm doing what Paul Carr probably should have done ... (Robin Wauters)

2011-09-18T03:40:00Z

Robin Wauters:
Bad Taste … I'm doing what Paul Carr probably should have done: venting my thoughts on the latest episode of the TechCrunch / AOL mess on my personal blog rather than (ab)using TechCrunch's platform and audience to get as much attention as possible. — And attention he got plenty alright.

Despite owning just 1% of enterprise market, Gmail deemed ready to take on Microsoft (Todd Haselton/BGR)

2011-09-17T05:45:00Z

Todd Haselton / BGR:
Despite owning just 1% of enterprise market, Gmail deemed ready to take on Microsoft — Gartner released a report on Friday that suggested Google's Gmail solution is ready to take on Microsoft in the enterprise email arena despite having just a tiny fraction of the market.

DHCPv6 kills Win7, Microsoft "won't fix"

2011-08-22T15:33:39Z

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New Approaches To Designing Log-In Forms

2011-08-22T15:30:45Z

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Google fined in Brazil for refusing to reveal bloggers' identities (Anna Heim/The Next Web)

2011-08-22T09:25:08Z

Anna Heim / The Next Web:
Google fined in Brazil for refusing to reveal bloggers' identities — Google wants to force people to use their real names online, say many Google+ detractors. Yet, it's precisely for defending three bloggers' right to anonymity that its Brazilian subsidiary was fined this Thursday by a local judge.

WordPress Now Powers 22 Percent Of New Active Websites In The U.S. (Leena Rao/TechCrunch)

2011-08-19T16:35:00Z

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
WordPress Now Powers 22 Percent Of New Active Websites In The U.S. — Blogging software WordPress is announcing a number of impressive growth stats today. WordPress is now powering 14.7% of the top million websites in the world, up from 8.5%. And 22 out of every 100 new active domains in the US are running WordPress.

Firefox 7 Beta Puts Priority on Performance (John P. Mello Jr./PC World)

2011-08-20T01:45:00Z

John P. Mello Jr. / PC World:
Firefox 7 Beta Puts Priority on Performance — Just days after the ready-for-primetime version of Firefox 6 was released, Mozilla, sticking to its aggressive development schedule for the browser, has rolled out the beta for Firefox 7 —a release of the software that is emphasizing performance improvements.

Microsoft disables 'supercookies' used on MSN.com visitors (Jaikumar Vijayan/Computerworld)

2011-08-21T11:25:01Z

Jaikumar Vijayan / Computerworld:
Microsoft disables ‘supercookies’ used on MSN.com visitors — New tracking technology a ‘colossal privacy gaffe,’ researcher says — Computerworld - Microsoft said it has disabled an online tracking technology that, according to a Stanford University researcher, allowed the company …

Are You a Good Programmer?

2011-08-19T15:18:02Z

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Google Hires Silicon Valley Tech Blogger Louis Gray as Google+ Evangelist (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

2011-08-18T17:20:02Z

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google Hires Silicon Valley Tech Blogger Louis Gray as Google+ Evangelist — Notable Silicon Valley tech blogger and startup consultant Louis Gray is finally turning his passion for Google's products and services into a career. Gray has just accepted the position of Product Marketing Manager …

Large ISPs Profit From BitTorrent Traffic, Study Finds (Ernesto/TorrentFreak)

2011-08-18T17:40:04Z

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Large ISPs Profit From BitTorrent Traffic, Study Finds — For more than half a decade many Internet providers have throttled or even banned BitTorrent traffic on their networks. A claim often heard from ISPs is that heavy users are using too much resources and bandwidth.

9 months after first talking about updating Symbian, Nokia finally pushes Anna out the door (Stefan Constantinescu/IntoMobile)

2011-08-18T20:50:00Z

Stefan Constantinescu / IntoMobile:
9 months after first talking about updating Symbian, Nokia finally pushes Anna out the door — David Meyer, writing for ZDNet UK, wrote this on November 09, 2010: “At the Symbian Exchange & Exposition (SEE2010) in Amsterdam, the handset manufacturer — which said on Monday that it was bringing development …

News sites using Facebook Comments see higher quality discussion, more referrals (Jeff Sonderman/Poynter)

2011-08-19T05:55:39Z

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
News sites using Facebook Comments see higher quality discussion, more referrals — News organizations that have turned to Facebook to power their website comments say they are seeing a higher quality of discussion and a significant increase in referral traffic.

An inside look at HP killing webOS hardware: Here's how it really went down. (Matthew Lebo/The Next Web)

2011-08-19T10:30:08Z

Matthew Lebo / The Next Web:
An inside look at HP killing webOS hardware: Here's how it really went down. — Neither Palm devices, nor the HP TouchPad were ever going to be able to showcase webOS properly. That's why yesterday's news that HP was shutting down its webOS hardware development should have been welcomed …

Why Rounded Corners are Easier on the Eyes (Anthony/UX Movement)

2011-08-19T13:05:00Z

Anthony / UX Movement:
Why Rounded Corners are Easier on the Eyes — Designers use rounded corners so much today that they're more of an industry standard than a design trend. They're not only found on software user interfaces, but hardware product designs as well. So what is it about rounded corners that make them so popular?

Lean Startup Thinker Eric Ries: “Don’t Be In A Rush To Get Big, Be In A Rush To Have A Great Product” | TechCrunch

2011-08-19T02:22:59Z