The online world is continuously expanding — always aggregating more services, more users and more activity. Last year, the number of websites registered on the “.com” domainsurpassed 150,000,000. However, more than a quarter of a century since its first commercial use, the growth of the online world is now slowing down in some key categories. We conducted a multi-year research project analyzing global trends in online diversity and dominance.Our research, published today in Public Library of Science, is the first to reveal some long-term trends in how businesses compete in the age of the web....

Apps Promofrom AppGeneration Software keeps you informed of all app promotions available in the iPhone App Store. Given the hectic competition in the iPhone App Store, from time to time app developers tend to promote their products with discounts. These discounts are usually steep and at times some apps will be available as a free download for just a few days. Since there are hundreds of thousands of apps available in the app store, it is tough to keep track of all the promos and save a few bucks in the process....

TLDR:The ScoutPro is the ultimate all-in-one charger, offering a whole handful of ways for this 24,000mAh battery to deliver power to up to five devices at once. With the number of devices we all carry with us each day continuing to grow, it’s no surprise that we’re still trying to work out the whole charging thing. Each device often comes with its own charger, but nobody wants to carry all those around....

I signed up forScovillea couple of weeks ago when my friend@hotdoghandjobssent me an invite. While I’m an avid Foursquare user I tend to shy away from piling apps on top of Foursquare with the exception of4sqtransitand4squareand7yearsagootherwise I become app exhausted. After signing up on Scoville’s cute flash page, I didn’t really do much with it. Scoville has sent me an email for every week I’ve been a member, asking me to come to the site....

UK startupScraperWiki, an open-data project based in Liverpool, has been awarded $280,000 to launch in the US. Started in early 2010, ScraperWiki is a technology platform that allows programmers to write and schedule screen scrapers and store the data they generate. It is an online tool that makes finding and storing data simpler and more collaborative. Wereportedon the ‘Hacks and Hackers’ tour that was organized by ScraperWiki across the UK and Ireland in 2010, which saw journalists and programmers compete in teams to produce ‘data journalism’ projects....