Posts Tagged with ‘early-adopters’

Today we hear yet another piece of news that may seem to be depressing for all the tech-savvy people as Steve Rubel speaks about a new Forrester Research report on the state of RSS (available for download for $279). The main conclusion of the report is that RSS technology is still very far from going mainstream with the adoption rate at 11% with 12% more people not sure if they do use RSS or not (presumably because they simply don’t [...]

Yes, you’ve read that right - if the current trend continues, Google Chrome browser will soon have a market share equal or higher than that of Internet Explorer. But don’t get me wrong here: I’m talking about Profy only referencing the stats I see myself in Google Analytics: we have a very impressive number of readers arriving to the blog using Google’s shiny and new browser - and the share is as high as 18.99% for us:

As soon as bloggers [...]

As I believe everyone has heard already, Google has introduced a browser of its own - named Chrome. Yesterday the blogosphere was abuzz about the comic book Google distributed to share its vision for a web browser (by the way, I have not seen such long threads on Techmeme for a long time now).
Basically Google Chrome is an open-source browser developed by Google using existing WebKit rendering engine (the one used in Aple’s Safari browser) and its own Google Gears [...]

Facebook fatigue. Have you heard the phrase? Are you suffering from it? Where once I logged into Facebook first thing every morning to check status updates and new links from tech-minded friends, I can't tell you the last time I logged in. And I no longer seem to get friend requests, although I regularly find adds on FriendFeed and LinkedIn.
Today is the first anniversary of the launch of the Facebook Platform, and it was marked with the official announcement that [...]

Much has been made of the early adopters vs. middle America argument when it comes to much of Web 2.0 technology. And while everyone likes the "cool factor" of being part of the first tribe to have adopted a product or app, we all know that reality dictates more widespread adoption for a company to succeed.
There are some companies who have already managed to gain more widespread adoption. LinkedIn is one of them, and I know that because even my [...]

Eric Rice posed an interesting theory last week, asking if social web early adopters have psychological disorders. My initial knee-jerk reaction was to be offended. As someone who's been wanting a plug in my head for accessing the Web since I first read Neuromancer, I thought of early adopters as eager to get to that next step in the technology progression.
Then I re-read the article and took a look at my password file. I now have over 100 user IDs [...]