Teens are known for being extremely fickle, but they're also known for pinpointing trendy sites and apps in the early stages. The challenge for brands, websites, apps, and startups alike is to try to figure out what teens these days like.
Niche, a network that helps you find your perfect school, has helped us all out by giving us a glimpse into the online habits of today's high school graduates. They surveyed more than 7,000 2014 high school grads in the U.S. and came up with some interesting trends.
Despite the rumors of teenagers not using Facebook anymore, 87% of the graduates use Facebook. Meanwhile, 55% of grads use Twitter, and 66% use Instagram.
And in terms of media consumption, they use YouTube, Netflix, and Pandora way more than Amazon Prime, Hulu, Spotify, and Beats.
They also don't seem to be into those anonymous gossip apps — 97% of the graduates don't use YikYak and 95% say they don't use Whisper.
The ultimate winners of the survey were Instagram, which had the most engaged users; Facebook, which had the most daily users; and YouTube, which had the most widespread usage.
Here's an interactive graph from Niche to show where these high school graduates are spending their time online:
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It's no longer in doubt: Facebook is the world's largest open source company. Facebook could already have been considered to be in the open source lead through the release of its datacenter designs, databases and more. This week's open-sourcing of a network switch (Wedge) and its operating system (FBOSS) have cemented Facebook's place atop the podium of open source contributors.
But have they also sounded the death knell for open source companies?
After all, with so much incredible open source code emerging from Facebook, Google (which released PDFium this week), LinkedIn and others, is there still room for companies to sell open-source software?
Inside The New Software Factory
It has always been true that most software is developed for use, not sale, as author and open source advocate Eric Raymond famously pointed out in his 2001 book The Cathedral And The Bazaar. Yet most of our attention has been on software vendors as we place bets on Oracle or IBM, SAP or Microsoft et al.
These are billion-dollar software companies, but the overall value of software being developed by open-source communities and behind the enterprise firewall is in the trillions of dollars, Red Hat's Michael Tiemann highlighted in 2009.
While nearly all software has been constrained by myopic, proprietary licensing, that's starting to change. Facebook and other Web giants recognize great value in releasing their code. The best developers want to work on the best code and increasingly the best code is open source. So Netflix, ostensibly a streaming video company, regularly hosts open source engineering days at its headquarters and makes a point of releasing its software in order to attract developers. That being said, Netflix did announce this week that it will be retiring its public application programming interface last week.
All of which is great: more open source, more awesome. But for all the open-source software being developed and released by such companies, precious little is being supported in a way that makes it easy for mainstream enterprises to embrace.
Spit, Polish And Commitment
A good case in point is the Apache Cassandra project, which Facebook built and open sourced in 2008 to support its messaging system. Two years later, Facebook had moved on. As the company iterated on its messaging system, Facebook switched from Cassandra to Hbase:
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We've seen plenty of jaw-dropping imagery of Apple's upcoming "spaceship" campus in Cupertino. The Norman Foster-designed campus won't be completed for some time, yet the futuristic renderings of the building have had the tech community excited since they were released in 2011.
A new video from Technology Integration Services provides a whole new perspective on the project, and this one's from the sky. The company isn't affiliated with Apple, but their engineers were able to create these 3D renderings using design plans that have already been made available to the public.
The new video gives a better idea of how enormous the new project really is.
As the video swoops around the outside of the building, it's obvious why so many people have compared the building to a spaceship.
We get a look at all of the green space that will be built inside the inner ring of the building.
In addition to the main "spaceship" building, there are lots of smaller developments to be constructed around the campus.
You can watch the whole video below.
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