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- Microsoft Loses Head of Developer Experiences for Windows Phone To Amazon Kindle
- Facebook Estimates The Personal Information of 845 Million Users is Worth $75 Billion
- LibreOffice Attracts Over 400 Contributors, Thousands of Code Commits
Microsoft Loses Head of Developer Experiences for Windows Phone To Amazon Kindle Posted: 05 Feb 2012 01:12 PM PST
So far Microsoft hasn't named any successor for Watson, and did little more than confirm his departure. According to a Microsoft spokesperson, "We can confirm February 6th is Brandon Watson's last day at Microsoft. Brandon did a great job helping us build a vibrant developer community and we wish him well with his next adventure." Watson's departure isn't the first, and likely won't be the last important loss to the Windows Phone team, but its still a mighty blow to a platform that is in desperate need of passionate community leaders. |
Facebook Estimates The Personal Information of 845 Million Users is Worth $75 Billion Posted: 05 Feb 2012 12:37 PM PST
The fillings revealed that Facebook is still far behind advertising market leaders such as Google when it comes to monetizing the value of it's users, but Wall Street as we know doesn't only reward immediate financial performance, rather they consider what's possible given the platform. Facebook made about $3.2 billion in advertising revenue last year, which while accounting for 85 percent of it's total, is still only a small fraction of the $36.5 billion Google took in during the same period. The big take away this week is that our personal information is worth a fortune in the right hands, and now that Facebook has finally gone public, you should expect them to start exploiting that value much more aggressively going forward. From the looks of it, they've only just scratched the surface. |
LibreOffice Attracts Over 400 Contributors, Thousands of Code Commits Posted: 05 Feb 2012 12:10 PM PST Google Docs and Office Web apps have gone a long way towards offering a compelling solution for storing our documents online, but for those in need of offline access, Open Office used to be the best free alterative to Microsoft around. Fast forward to 2012 however, and Open Office hasn't just fallen off the map, it has been lapped several times by a new community fork called LibreOffice. According to new statistics offered up by the community, LibreOffice monthly commits is now in the 1500-3000 range, with the vast majority of new code coming from TDF volunteers, as opposed to large corporations such has Red Hat, Oracle, or Canonical. The LibreOffice community is also celebrating over 10 million users, a significant milestone for a project that only launched in late 2010. With version 3.5 just around the corner promising tons of improvements sometime next week, the future of LibreOffice is looking very bright indeed. |
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