First off, not "everyone" was on MySpace. At its peak, MySpace boasted 100 million accounts (not active accounts, just accounts created). When G+ launched, Facebook claimed some 600+ million accounts. This is important, since it meant the market was mostly saturated. Facebook picked up many social network newbies, while G+ came into a market where most people who wanted to be connected, already were.

Secondly, MySpace was a lot more customizable than Facebook, visually. Facebook's apps weren't really "customizations", as much as more features the platform offers. I agree with you that apps were an important feature for new users for quite a while, but at least from what I can see, they're a relatively minor part of Facebook feeds these days (at least in my vicinity), with the status updates, pictures and Pages taking the lead. 

I use both (and twitter too) because the two have different audiences and different dynamics - basically, I use Google+ as a Facebook for Twitter-folk, while I use Facebook for people I know from real-life. But it's all blurring.

This is a survey taken among users of a specific app-development package that doesn't support WP7, as you say, that asks how interested they are in developing for WP7. It doesn't say anything about WP7 popularity or lack thereof. It's useful, if at all, for AppCelerator to determine how much of a market they have to adapt their product for WP7, not about developers in the wild.

What MJFoley is doing here is taking an existing but irrelevant data point and twisting it to create a headline: "Microsoft a distant third horse in the mobile race", even though the race itself is an irrelevant internal AppCelerator race.

I've spent the last two years as a tech journalist, so I know exactly what went on in their heads. In fact, I reported on that self-same survey a few months back, and took care to stress that these results are NOT indicative of WP7's success. Or lack thereof.

But I still have the C9 RSS feeds in my googlereader. And even if I don't usually read them all, I do scan them sometimes and pop in if I have something to add.

1998: Vint Cerf warns that the internet will run out of IP addresses. Pushes for adoption of IPv6.

2010: Same Vint Cerf once again warns that we'll run out of addresses within the year. I remain skeptical.

It's not that IPv4 won't run out of addresses eventually. It's just that IPv6 is obviously a bad solution, since vendors have resisted implementing it for over a decade.

Bass said:

Yggdrasil said:

*snip*

Do you want to sell the tickets online or just track them online? Selling anything online will cost a reasonable merchant fee (usually around 3-4% plus 30 cents per transaction) if you are accepting credit cards. There is pretty much no way around this. Paypal and Google Checkout will manage this for you.

I can live with only using the software to track orders and print tickets. Most of the tickets are sold in cash, anyway, and we have a credit-card solution already.

itsnotabug said:

Yggdrasil said:

*snip*

big, professional events warrant big, professional websites.

I agree, but it's just not what we need. This is for TechEd-style events, where attendants pay hundreds of dollars for the entire event. We're working differently, with tickets to specific lectures, so it's not really appropriate. 

spivonious said:

Yggdrasil said:

*snip*

Found this from a Bing search: http://registertoattend.com

 

Free for free events, $3.50 per transaction + 3% of total revenue for paid events.

That's... so damn expensive I can't even begin to explain. This is for big, professional events, not the non-profit con we're trying to raise. A ticket for an event - lecture, panel, whatever  goes for about $8-$10, so this comes out to nearly 50% of the revenue. 

Thanks, though.

magicalclick said:

I would just make an even / page + even on Facebook. Then I will share my Photos/Videos and Powerpoint from SkyDrive, pretty much it. I am much lazier

Also not really practical for a 3-day event with hundreds of attendees and dozens of events, unfortunately. Gotta keep track of tickets sold and events shifting about. I don't need to have people just mark themselves as Attending - I gotta see who paid for tickets and who didn't. It can be done with a big pile of Excel sheets, and usually is, but I'm looking for something a bit more convenient.

I'm looking for good software, preferably open-source for running a convention: event tracking, ticketing, hopefully exposing the data as a live web page as well, for the people attending and buying tickets. 

This is for a science fiction con, with the standard run of panels, lectures and presentations, over a couple of days. I'm sure that there are dozens of projects for that out there, and I would really prefer to NOT reinvent the wheel here.

Have any of you used something like this before, and can recommend it? I'm scouting around on SourceForge and so forth, and found a few possibilities, but a personal recommendation would help greatly.

Thanks.

spivonious said:

You can end the explorer.exe process. It will automatically restart.

 

What are you trying to accomplish?

Or possible killing dwm.exe, depending on what bug you're trying to circumvent. 

TommyCarlier said:

Zeus said:

*snip*

Thanks for the bug fix, I corrected my code. That's what happens when you improvize in the C9 editor.

Maybe it's easier to make a method to do this (so you can reuse it):

public static object GetPropertyValue(object item, string propertyName)
{
  return item != null
    ? item
        .GetType()
        .GetProperty(propertyName)
        .GetValue(item, null)
    : null;
}

Which you can the use like this:

var childName = 
  GetPropertyValue(
    GetPropertyValue(item, "FirstChild"),
    "Name") as string;

I'm with Tommy here - if you're going to do any serious work with reflection, building a set of easy-access methods is essential, otherwise you'll get bogged down in tedious syntax and methods with 5-6 parameters, half of which are usually null or identical from call to call. Make your life easier, make a ReflectionHelper class with some helper methods. 

No local storage (except for caching) because this isn't built for heavy data-entry purposes. The point is to have the storage in the cloud, in gmail and Google Docs and so forth, and have them easily accessed from netbooks and tablet devices. Again, think of the Kindle as the inspiration. 

...but honestly? I set it up only to play with, and I find myself not actually doing anything with it. There's nothing I need to do that I can't do on my host Server 2008 box.

Sven Groot said:

Curt Nichols said:

*snip*

It was also apparently due in November. No wait, January. Sorry, I meant April. Amazon's release date for this book just keeps shifting so I've lost faith in it.

I wonder if they didn't decide to just scrap the current version and update it for Windows 7 before publishing it.

Otherwise, with W7 release schedule getting earlier all the time, this book will be obsolete by the time it's published.

TommyCarlier said:

What kind of compatibility? With VS2008 you can compile to .NET 2.0, so if it's that kind of compatibility you could use VS2008. If it's not, I can't help you.

Nah, it's to check compatibility with plug-ins - I want to make sure what I write will work as an add-in for VS2005 as well as VS2008.