Internet Trends - Google Analyst Day 2007
I was just watching the video from Google Analyst Day 2007 with Vint Cerf and Alan Eustace. They discussed everything from the evolution and future of the internet to internet neutrality and Google bidding on the 700mhz spectrum.
Posted: January 23, 2008 | Under: Business | Leave a Comment
Case Study: MexicanVanilla.com
From early 2004 to May 2007, I have been running MexicanVanilla.com, a niche seller of imported Mexican vanilla. When May 2007 rolled around, I decided the time had come for me to move on to other projects and the domain was returned to its owner. I had been leasing the domain name. In hind site, don’t EVER do that. You invest huge amounts of time promoting it, and when it comes time to move on, you can’t sell you work. Big bummer.
Posted: January 19, 2008 | Under: Business | Leave a Comment
Kill Bill (Gates)
Posted: January 14, 2008 | Under: Random | Leave a Comment
SEO Resources Updated
I just went though the Search Engine Optimization Resources section and updated it with all the really good bookmarks I have been collecting over the last couple months.
Posted: January 3, 2008 | Under: SEO | Leave a Comment
What Computer Hardware are You Running?
After some great rounds of Team Fortress 2 this morning, I got one of those annoying Steam popups asking me to take a hardware survey. They promised to share the results with me, and I thought that was a pretty fair trade. What surprised me was the handy system info they were willing to share. Bare in mind, these are gamers, so there are a lot of high end computer systems in the mix, but it was still a great sampling of the current state of users’ computers and it has some things that should be considered when you start building your next project.
Primary Display Resolution
Out of 87,4450 Users
Resolution | #Users | %
800 x 600 | 13,848 | 1.58 %
1024 x 768 | 275,816 | 31.54 %
1280 x 960 | 351,374 | 40.18 %
1600 x 1200 | 16,094 | 1.84 %
1680 x 1050 | 77,349 | 8.85 %
1920 x 1200 | 19,795 | 2.26 %
Ahhh! 70% of the user base is running at 1024 x 768 & 1280 x 960 resolution. I would still consider those “low” resolutions. Only around 10% of the users are running what I would consider “high” resolution monitors.
Also interesting to note, are the operating systems that people are running.
Windows Version
Windows XP | 727,772 | 83.23 %
Windows
As you can see, Windows Vista is the gamer’s operating system of choice.
Physical CPUs
1 cpu 540,791 61.84
2 cpus 305,658 34.95 %
4 cpus 27,922 3.19 %
It is nice to see, that multi-core cpus are spreading quite nicely too.
I believe you can see the results of the Valve Hardware Survey without needing to take it.
Oh yeah, Happy New Year!
Posted: January 1, 2008 | Under: Random | Leave a Comment