Twitter: 8 billion dollars of valuation and 250 million of tweets each day

Twitter is worth 8 billion dollars, about 5,800 million euros figure Impressive right? For only one of several new Dick Costolo, CEO, has provided a few hours on the popular platform before us under the Summit Web 2.0 technology event being held in San Francisco.
Apart from the mentioned valuation, Costolo also revealed that the number of tweets per day has reached 250 million, representing an increase of 177% over last year, that the base of 100 million monthly active users which now have more than 50% updated daily (on January 1, 30% of monthly active users were connected to Twitter every day), or the number of users who access Twitter via mobile devices has grown 40% each quarter.
Addition to the above highlights particularly how well they are running the strategy of integrating Twitter with IOS 5, which already begins to give them joy (this integration is partly to blame for the increase of mobile users comment and rate updates, and this is important to note that many users of IOS devices have not yet upgraded to the latest version). In this particular Costolo commented that:
Integration with IOS will be hugely beneficial to us. It will be even better than we thought. [...] These types of Apple are a great ally. When you think how to improve products and think about the issue. On Twitter we will offer simplicity in a world of complexity ... are [referring to Apple] our business mentors.
So while day in and day out everyone is talking about growth and the fight between Facebook and Google + Twitter not to improve their position within the social network sector. Far will they go nobody knows, but what is clear at this point is that:
■ Twitter has no rival, nor was he expected.
■ They have very clear that success is the simplicity and that is the line to follow.
■ continue to grow, and much, in all aspects, including income generation and that there are also doing pretty good things.

SpeakingPal, application to learn and improve your English [Android - iOS] 0 Posted by Juanguis on October 18, 2011 | In: Android, iPhone

SpeakingPal

is a great application that allows you to chat with a virtual character on the phone to learn English and improve it for free. The application available a kind of virtual actor who teaches us to pronounce English well, something very important as many out there do were writing are handled well by reading the language, but not pronounced.

The application is a virtual tutor spoken English that enables a simple way to understand the weaknesses and strengths of our level in presenting feedback in three simple colors depending on the quality of our pronunciation (red, yellow and green). The words pronounced correctly receive the green and those where more practice is needed are presented in yellow or red.

The user has the possibility to practice until suobjetivo and receive the highest score!

Dropbox rejected an offer to buy Apple's nine figures, from the hand of Steve Jobs

When Apple unveiled a whole which includes icloud, many users could not avoid the comparison with Dropbox. In fact, many others did the same when the service was born, being almost impossible not to compare it with Apple's iDisk, still active for MobileMe users, but less "ATR-asset", forgive the repetition, for most users Dropbox.
Dropbox now receives funding round of $ 250 million, and already has more than 45 million users, Forbes magazine released a report in which they had vaivienes account when the company founders had only two years old , and were called a meeting in Cupertino. To put this, MobileMe was launched in 2008, and the meeting was held in 2009. At that time one of the few who saw the potential for storage in what is now called the cloud was Steve Jobs. This summons the meeting in Cupertino with a clear intention ... but things did not go as Apple wanted ...
The first surprise at the meeting came when the founders took his laptop in order to demonstrate to Steve Jobs about the service. The late co-founder of Apple, made a cold gesture saying "I know what you do" something supposedly normal in the sense that Jobs probably was well documented on the service and I knew I wanted ... but ugly Dropbox by founders who were eager to show what they did.
The second surprise (again, possibly as a personal opinion) was for Apple. Apparently, Steve offered to buy Dropbox for a total amount of nine figures, but the founders rejected the offer. The aim of the founders was to build a great company, no matter who was the bidder, even if considered by Dropbox came from as 'hero' Steve Jobs, and no matter the amount. All he could do to rejection Jobs was smiling.
Dropbox now know that Apple did not sell. And we know how Apple responded to a product and service increasingly in demand, especially if we consider that the cloud is large but not infinite.

The most pirated movies of all time

They just show a list of 10 pirated movies of all time, showing which are the preferences of users, especially the preferred online audience.

Crowned the best is "Avatar" the most pirated movie of all time, is undoubtedly one of the jewels of Hollywood film, produced and directed by popular director James Cameron.

 In this list stand the summer blockbuster movies that have most liked to the public, mostly science fiction movies based on popular comics and TV geek.

 List of downloaded movies of all time:

 1. Avatar (21 million downloads)
 2. The Dark Knight (19 million downloads)
 3. Transformers (19 million downloads)
 4. Inception (18 million downloads)
 5. The Hangover (17 million downloads)
 6. Star Trek (16 million downloads)
 7. Kick-Ass (15 million downloads)
 8. The Departed (14 million downloads)
 9. The Incredible Hulk (14 million downloads)
 10. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (14 million downloads)

 From this list I only liked Avatar, The Dark Knight, Inception. Each of these films grossed millions of dollars in its debut, as well as lasting weeks at the movies.

 This list displays the movies downloaded via bittorrent, in a report that made ​​the site TorrentFreak. You have a favorite movie in this list, write down their views in their comments, because I do not like most of these titles.

 Online downloads are the most information on the Internet, and this list is proof of that.

iPad 3 Rumors: The iPad Mini? Say It Ain’t So

Taiwan-based news organization Economic Daily News has recently reported that a third or fourth generation iPad is in design phase and will be sporting a mini. That’s right. Rumor has it that Apple is planning on releasing a 7.85 inch tablet in the near future.
Economic Daily News stated that LG Display and AU Optronics are part of the design team and have already sent samples to Apple. The screen will have the same resolution as the current generation iPad, it will just be two inches smaller.
Rumors about a 7-inch iPad have been circulating since the first generation tablet hit the market and were subsequently squashed by Steve Jobs himself in a quarterly earnings conference call where the CEO was quoted as saying that a 7-inch tablet would be “DOA- dead on arrival.” This new rumor feels a bit DOA in my opinion. Just because it stretches the size nearly an inch, doesn’t mean it is any more likely than the first rumor.
Jobs has commented on the smaller sized screen to share-holders a number of times and all of them were a big fat “no.” Why would the iPad-maker turn around and do just that. Is the Kindle Fire really that much of a threat? I doubt it. Even if Amazon’s tablet actually competes with Apple, the market share has such a huge gap that the iPad does not need to rush out and make a cheaper version just to stay on top.
IntoMobile has an interesting point on the subject though. Apple has released scaled pricing versions of nearly every one of its other products from the MacBook Air to the MacBook Pro, or the iPod Shuffle to the iPod touch. It almost makes sense that they would start making smaller iPads. I guess we will have to wait and see on this rumor