In February of 2007, 83.24 percent of users visiting TechCrunch did so from a Windows machine. One year later, in February 2008, the stranglehold remained firm at 80.44 percent.

When users click the Like or Recommend button on a third-party website or Facebook it, it now publishes a full feed story instead of just a one-line Recent Activity Story. Previously, full stories with headlines, thumbnail images, and captions were only published if the website chose to implement the “Like with Comment” version of the button and users chose to add this additional context

I was in the air an average of 30 hours a month for the last two years, so I watched a lot of movies — typically semi-delirious on Ambien– that I wouldn’t ordinarily.

For any retailer that is selling goods online, it is incredibly important to be able to retain customers and identify when purchasers are about to leave a site. While many online retailers and companies develop these analytics in house, there is a need for a simple application that smaller shops can use to determine behavior of visitors.

Y Combinator-incubated SwipeGood, a startup that allows you to donate to charity each time you buy, is using its Start Fund money to benefit others. In case you didn’t catch this bit of news, DST’s Yuri Milner and SV Angel have teamed up to launch the Start Fund, which gives all Y Combinator startups a $150,000 investment in the form of a convertible note with no cap and no discount.

I was determined never to write another negative post about TED.

The Platform Update for this week on the Facebook Developers Blog discussed how the pic_big Graph API call will soon return a slightly smaller version of a user’s profile picture, Facebook’s efforts to reduce its backlog of bugs, and its recent Startup Day. The December 2010 profile redesign slightly reduced the maximum size for profile pictures from 200 pixels wide to 180 pixels

Editor’s note : Guest author Shervin Pishevar is the founder of the OpenMesh Project , SGN and an active angel investor. On January 7, 2010 I was ushered into a small private dinner with Secretary Hillary Clinton at the State Department along with the inventor of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google and a few others.

“A good player goes where the puck is. A great player goes where the puck is going to be”— The Great One Google made a few interesting announcements this week. First, Google Docs Viewer support for a sheaf of new document type s, including Excel, Powerpoint, Photoshop and PostScript

Move over, Chronicles of Narnia, there’s a new dreamworld of magic in town. That’s right