Thursday, February 9th, 2012 4:27 am

Twitter: Growth related to media coverage, geographic proximity

Cambridge (ip-192.com): The rapid growth of Twitter relied primarily on media attention and traditional social networks based on geographic proximity and socioeconomic similarity, according to MIT scientists. The team analyzed the development of the social networking and microblogging site from 2006 to 2009. Twitter is said to have more than 300 million users worldwide who [...]

Fresh cash for Twitter: $300 million from Saudi Arabia

San Francisco (ip-192.com): Christmas comes early for Twitter: The social networking and microblogging service receives $300 million in fresh cash from Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, a Saudi Arabian businessman and investor. Analysts say that Twitter is worth about $8 billion. Earlier in 2011, the company raised another $400 million from private investors. Launched on July [...]

Joomla 1.6: Better user management

Washington, DC (ip-192.com): Content management system Joomla has released version 1.6. Significant new features include the ability to use template styles and overrides to modify the appearance of pages, nested categories, and a color-coded CSS and HTML editor. A new abstraction layer enables the open source CSS to run on different backend databases. Permissions can [...]

Drupal: Version 7 of CMS released

Atlanta (ip-192.com): After three years of development, Drupal 7 has been released. The open source content management system (CMS) features a new easier-to-use and more intuitive administrative interface that allows user to update modules and themes directly from within the console. A new database abstraction layer offers substantially enhanced performance and scalability options. The blogging [...]