Have you ever wondered what software powers sites like YouTube, Flickr, and MySpace? Wonder no more because Pingdom has the scoop! The results are located in the table above, and as you can see Linux, Apache, and MySQL are among the most popular tools. In the end this is how the stats play out:

OS: Linux 7 - Windows 2
Web server: Apache 7 -

Has Wikipedia peaked? Was it just a fad? These are questions that people are asking today after an independent analysis found that activity over at the popular online encyclopedia has been declining.  More specifically, editing has been down 20% while new account creation is down 30%. Wikipedia hasn't bothered to update their statistics page for just about two years which is why the analysis was conducted independently.

So what does this mean? In my

It has been a pretty big week in terms of milestones. It's not all that often that sites and applications are able to boast their millionth milestones, and so I thought it would be fun to point out all of the things that have happened in the last 7 days:

• Firefox hit 400 million downloads - This is big news
  Continue reading The Week of Million Milestones

Have you ever visited Google Trends before? I do on occasion because sometimes it's interesting to see what people are searching for. Much like Google Trends, a new Wikipedia data mining service called Wikirage tells you what the hot topics are on Wikipedia. A topic is considered "hot" based upon how many unique edits

One of Wikipedia’s greatest strengths and weaknesses is that just about anybody is able to contribute and edit the content. It’s obvious that certain people, organizations or companies keep tabs on what content their Wikipedia page contains when anything controversial or what would be considered “bad publicity” is removed anonymously. It happens quite often, and those same people are the type to edit competitors or enemy pages as well. The ability to post anonymously has opened up the

Both Yahoo and Google in the past have decided it was best to censor their search results to appease the demands of China. Yes, they were put in a tough spot: either they had to limit the information available to Chinese Internet users, or they didn’t which meant they would be banned all together. Now Wikipedia is finding themselves in the same spot with China currently blocking the encyclopedia. The difference

When I was a student, had I written research papers and cited Wikipedia as a source, my professors would have laughed. Wikipedia is often times criticized for its inaccuracies, and brushed off into the “non-scholarly” section, yet even “real” encyclopedias like the Encyclopedia Britannica make mistakes. In fact, there’s a Wikipedia page dedicated to the errors in Encyclopedia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia… imagine that!

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