Daily Archives: February 2, 2011

The last few day when we look at Twitter, most visits we get an error page which hangs, sometimes if you click on the home button it then goes to where you wanted to be.

The “Twitter is over capacity error page” pictures a whale being lifted by birds, I wonder if the whale represents the bloated beast Twitter has become!

We have also been trying to make adjustments to twitter pages and that seems to be hit or miss, Twitter also seems to use a lot of caching, so it is hard to see if changes have really (if any) been made. Twitter API’s we use seem to have a mind of their own as well.

Price of a successful free service I guess!

Microsoft has announced a Windows Media Player HTML5 Extension for Chrome, which will let users of the Google browser play H.264 video on HTML5 pages by using the built-in capabilities found in Windows 7.

Microsoft’s Dean Hachamovitch, corporate vice president of Internet Explorer, also released a lengthy blog post in which he criticized Google’s control over the WebM project and said IE9 will support both H.264 and WebM.

The Windows Media Player HTML5 Extension for Chrome uses Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin code from the April 2007 release according to the release notes.

Comcast has successfully activated our first group of trial users for IPv6 Native Dual Stack operation. These are the first Native Dual-Stack users activated in a production DOCSIS network in North America. Leveraging our state-of-the-art, production DOCSIS 3.0 network, these users can now access content and services natively over both IPv6 and IPv4. This means users do not need to use any IPv6 or IPv4 tunneling, translating, or NAT solutions; they can access IPv6 and IPv4 directly at high-speed, in an unencumbered fashion. This is a tremendous milestone for Comcast, cable operators, and the Internet community at large, and it is a critical milestone in our many years of work to prepare IPv6 to work seamlessly in a residential broadband Internet network. Each user has been delegated a /64 block of approximately 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 (18 quintillion) unique IPv6 addresses. We anticipate expanding our IPv6 Native Dual Stack trial in Colorado and in other areas in the coming weeks and months.

More: http://blog.comcast.com/2011/01/comcast-activates-first-users-with-ipv6-native-dual-stack-over-docsis.html

Google’s Chrome browser ended 2010 with 10.70% of the browser market share, according to Net Applications. Microsoft’s internet Explorer continues to lose market share. Firefox, the world’s second most popular browser, currently has a 22% share.

Apple’s Safari climbed four-tenths of a percentage point to 6.3%.

The upcoming launch of Firefox 4 and Internet Explorer 9 may change usage, or so Mozilla and Microsoft are hoping.

Top browser market share at: http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=1