Combing through hundreds of blog posts and news articles daily, Dirk Klingner, our technology-trend watcher, sifts through the noise to bring you the tech news most important to consumers. If you have a tip on a story you want to share, leave a comment below.
Facebook Says “FML,” “Twitter” Is A Top Status Trend In 2009 (TechCrunch)Facebook has just released its list of top status updates for the year, and they’re pretty interesting. This is a new feature that Facebook plans to release yearly called “Memology,” the study of how memes are spreading on Facebook. Specifically, the Facebook Data Team looked at status updates in the U.S. for this year’s list.
Firefox 3.5 passes IE7 as most popular web browser (DownloadSquad)
...It's finally happened–at least when we're talking about the most popular single version of a browser. You can see it all in the bar graph above: Firefox 3.5 has dethroned Internet Explorer 7.
Location-Based Ads Come to Augmented Reality in the US (ReadWriteWeb)
The Brightkite ads appear to be just for electronics retailer BestBuy so far, and are displayed as unique markers in your field of view when pointed towards one of the stores.
Our 2009 12-City 3G Data Mega Test: AT&T Won (Gizmodo)
Given carrier reputation and our own iPhone call drops, we were pretty surprised to discover, through careful testing in 12 markets, that AT&T's has pretty consistently the fastest 3G network nationwide, followed closely—in downloads at least—by Verizon Wireless.
Make Way for youtu.be Links (Broadcasting Ourselves: The Official YouTube Blog)
...Well, we've just launched youtu.be as a shortener for YouTube video links–and nothing but YouTube links–so you can rest assured that when you see a link with this URL, you are indeed about to click on a YouTube video.
Unofficial tech support returns home for the holidays (The Official Google Blog)
...I know this phenomenon isn't unique to just my family. If you're unofficial tech support for family this holiday season like I am, one of the things you'll want to consider is checking that your family is using the latest version of their browser.
Lighter Side: Waving Goodbye to 2009 (WhirledInteractive)
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