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Blog posts tagged with 'Milestones'

Wednesday, March 03

Approaching a Milestone

By Brad

Via Mashable, popular micro-blogging service Twitter is counting down to 10 billion — that’s right, billion — “tweets.” The punchline: the company has only been around since 2007.

Thursday, February 25

Today in Milestones

By Brad

Apple has announced that customers have now downloaded 10 billion — yes, billion — songs from the company’s iTunes service. Even more staggering: It took just seven years.

Friday, January 22

To Boldly Tweet…

By Brad

Today popular micro-blogging service Twitter officially achieved otherworldly status, as NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station posted their first tweet from zero gravity.

Monday, September 28

There’s (85,000) Apps for That

By Brad

Apple has released some staggering new numbers about its application store for iPhone and iPod touch. There are now 85,000 different apps available, with an average of 6.3 million of them downloaded each and every day. The total number of apps downloaded since the app store was launched? More than two billion.

Wow.

Monday, August 17

Milestone of the Day

By Brad

Wikiepedia, the free online encyclopedia built upon the research and knowledge of users, has reached three million English articles. The winning article: A brief biography of Norwegian actress Beate Eriksen.

Thursday, June 04

Non-Broadband Related Post of the Day

By Brad

In far happier—if disastrous for productivity—anniversary news, this week marks the 25th anniversary of the creation of Tetris. Scientific American marks the occasion:

Creator Alexey Pajitnov at the Moscow Academy of Science programmed the iconic falling-block game in June 1984 for a Soviet computer system called Electronika, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The Reuters news agency cites June 6 as the date that the first playable version of the game was born.

“The program wasn’t complicated,” Pajitnov told the U.K.‘s Guardian newspaper. “There was no scoring, no levels. But I started playing and I couldn’t stop. That was it.”

Friday, April 24

Milestone of the Day

By Brad

For the past few weeks, Apple has been counting down to its one billionth download of an application for its popular iPhone. Today, the company has announced that they’ve reached the mark, along with the person who hit it. From the press release:

Apple® today announced that customers have downloaded one billion applications from its revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world. The one billionth app, Bump created by Bump Technologies, was downloaded by Connor Mulcahey, age 13, of Weston, CT. As the grand prize winner of Apple’s one billion app countdown contest, Connor will receive a $10,000 iTunes® gift card, an iPod® touch, a Time Capsule® and a MacBook® Pro.

Thursday, April 02

eCommerce Milestone of the Day

By Brad

Online DVD deliverer Netflix has announced it recently delivered its 2 billionth DVD—and they reached that number in just under 10 years. GigaOm does the math:

Using a rough back-of-the-envelope calculation, that works out to an average of 605,326 DVDs a day or about 25,221 DVDs an hour, 420 DVDs a minute or 7 DVDs every second.

Now that’s impressive.

Friday, March 13

Twenty Years Young

By Brad

It was on this day in 1989 that the “World Wide Web” was born.

 

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