Now that 2011 is coming to an end and the new year is looming, we thought it would be a good time for a quick recap of some of the most interesting posts we’ve put out this year. You may very well have missed some of them, especially if you’re not a regular reader.

Here’s our selection in chronological order. We hope you enjoy reading these as much as we enjoyed writing them!

• The Web is the biggest open source success of all
• 15 open source projects your should know about as a web developer
• Awesome tech company office designs
• The world’s billionaires, a statistical overview (charts)
• The 10 most Mac-friendly countries on the planet
• The rather petite Internet of 1995
• How big is Google, really?
• Facebook’s ginormous size put into context (chart)
• What Google autocomplete has to say about the Internet
• USA vs. China on the Internet
• The iPad already used more than Linux computers
• Apple now worth 5x more than in 2006, and nearly 2x as much as Google
• The top 20 strongholds for desktop Linux
• Apple staff raking in the cash: $419,528 profit per head
• Internet users per time zone (chart)
• Why email is crucial to Google, Microsoft and Yahoo
• Is the online tech crowd really THAT dominated by men?
• Facebook now as big as the entire Internet was in 2004
• Social network popularity around the world in 2011
• How amazingly fast our tech habits change
• Apple’s iPad owns 88% of global tablet web traffic
• Web pages are getting more bloated, and here’s why
• The mobile web in numbers

Thanks for reading, and we hope you’ll have a great 2012. Happy New Year!

Do you live in a country that loves Apple’s iPad? Most of us probably think we do, but we wanted to be able to tell you for sure. So even though we have written about the iPad many times before, it’s now time for us to tackle this hotly contested topic again.

Read on to find out, which countries are the most iPad-friendly.

Perhaps you live in one of them.

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Display resolutions are increasing every year, something that’s being taken to its extreme with the recent “retina display” trend that came with the latest iPad. The jump in onscreen pixels is massive, and such displays are soon bound to make their way into regular laptops and desktop displays, perhaps as soon as this year.

This development will have a profound effect on the size of the graphics resources necessary for websites, which ultimately will make websites bigger, more bloated and slower to download. That is, if we don’t change tactics.

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The juggernaut that is Facebook is quickly approaching 1 billion users, so the social network is growing at a rapid pace overall.

But if we look at some of the latest figures available, it would seem that Zuckerberg’s creation is not gaining users in every corner of the world.

In fact, in one country, Facebook has lost 16% of its users over the last six months, the equivalent of over 200,000 users. But in another country, Facebook has gained almost 17 million users over the same period.

What countries are we talking about, you ask? Read on and we’ll tell you.

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Developers who want a portable computer to code on, which is thin, light, sleek and yet powerful, may now be getting another option in an ultrabook from Dell. What makes the “Sputnik” ultrabook different is that it runs Ubuntu 12.04 Linux and it’s tailor-made for developers.

Every Friday we bring you a collection of links to places on the web that we find particularly newsworthy, interesting, entertaining, and topical. We try to focus on some particular area or topic each week, but in general we will cover Internet, web development, networking, performance, security, and other geeky topics.

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“Photograph what is close to you. Share it with the world!“ That’s one of the headlines on Aday.org, a global project that will attempt to document what goes around the world in one day.

This all takes place on Tuesday May 15, 2012, and Pingdom will be participating.

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