A chart that shows the total sites across all domains for the Netcraft February 2011 survey (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web analytics firm Netcraft ( www.netcraft.com ) reported on Wednesday the results of its February 2011 survey, which saw responses from 284,842,077 sites. Leading the survey with the largest number of increases in terms of market share and absolute growth is Apache, which saw 9.6 million new hostnames and a 1 percentage point increase in market share. This is the second consecutive month Apache has gained the most hostnames.

Mac App Store & Twitter App Released Today Thursday, January 06, 2011, 7:04:58 AM Apple-blogging specialists Razorianfly.com reported yesterday that a new Twitter app will be introduced today alongside the launch of the Mac App Store. The application, simply called Twitter For Mac, comes from the developers of Tweetie, the Iphone Twitter application and reportedly features native retweet support, real-time updates and drag-and-drop tweeting capabilities. The brand new Mac App Store is due to go live at 12 noon EST today, 6th January

Cloud computing underwhelms PHP developers While technology vendors continue to pound home the message of cloud computing, PHP developers Tuesday viewed the concept as overhyped and were not in agreement on its benefits. Developers at the ZendCon 2010 PHP conference in Santa, Clara, Calif., heard Zend Technologies CEO Andi Gutmans tout the company’s cloud computing plans, which involve developing Zend PHP Cloud Platform

There are thousands of free image host out there, but not many that focus on providing you a cheap or free place to host an online gallery for your photography, images or artwork.  If you do not want to upload a script and run it from day to day, you might try one of these three free image gallery hosting services to get your own portfolio hosted online. Picasa I had to throw one generic free service into the mix, and Picasa is the one I decided to pick.  Now run by Google, Picasa not only gives you a place to host pictures – but also comes with a very powerful desktop client to organize your collections with too.  If you have a Google account (and really, who doesn’t these days) go check it out and see if you like it. Flickr Flickr is another awesome and free way to upload and share your digital images online.  It might be one of the most well known photo sharing websites on my list today, and there is good reason for it.  It works, and it is where the people are right now.  You can create an account for free by logging into the Flickr website with your Yahoo info, and you’ll be ready to upload soon after that.  You can also organize your collections, share them with friends or limit who can see them too.

Facebook Admits Some Developers Sold User IDs Facebook admitted late last week that some developers have sold user IDs (UIDs) to data brokers. The popular social-networking site said it has taken steps to prevent this in the future, including a six-month suspension of some developers. In a post Friday on the company’s Developer Blog, Facebook’s Mike Vernal said the company has “discovered some instances where a data broker was paying developers for UIDs.” He noted that the developers were less than a dozen, mostly small developers, and that none of the apps were in the top 10 on the platform

Are RIM’s New Tools Enough To Spur Developers? One of the problems faced by RIM is a deficit in the number of applications available in BlackBerry App World.

Android Outlook Brighter Than iOS, Developers Say Mobile app developers increasingly believe that Google’s Android platform has a better long-term outlook than Apple’s iOS platform, even as they continue to rate iOS better in terms of app sales, discoverability, and hardware. These findings, from the latest survey of 2,363 developers conducted by Appcelerator, makers of the Titanium cross-platform mobile development software, and research firm IDC, recall similar results presented by Appcelerator in June.