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SoftwareQualityConnection: This formerly obscure Web server is gaining popularity with businesses.

On the PHPClasses.org blog there's a new post with a "zeitgeist" they've generated from statistics on the site (such as search queries and overall popularity of packages).

Royal Pingdom: Don't panic Ubuntu fans but your favorite desktop Linux distribution has fallen to fourth place

FB friends tied to grey matter. Complex.com: The original buyer's guide for men.

Popularity of iPad 2 creating glut of original iPads for sale, now what to do? With the new iPad 2 entering the marketplace with tons of desirable, new features, a lot of people want to upgrade their original iPads to an iPad 2.

Unfortunately, Apple does not offer an upgrade path.

Webreference: "A great way to increase the popularity of your blog is by using other forms of social media to promote it. Wordpress has many plugins to help you with this endeavor."

Two game theorists have shown in a recent paper that it may not only be exposure that begets popularity. Social influences in a network can boost new innovations up, as well as slow them down, depending on the network's structure.

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Linuxtrends: "In order to get a sense of the popularity of various Linux distributions over the past several years, we entered their names into Google's search insights tool and grabbed images of the resulting graphs.

The graphs display some fascinating trends and bode well for the future of Linux."