It's that time of the year when everyone publishes their top 10 lists. I know the year is not over, but I doubt the results will change between now and then. So when I look back over the year in terms of the number of downloads for a technology preview, I can easily see that this was a banner year for Autodesk Labs. I simply use a SQL query against our metrics database that I maintain:

SELECT YEAR(MetricsDataDownloads.Date) AS Year,
              SUM(MetricsDataDownloads.Completed) AS Downloads
FROM MetricsDataDownloads
GROUP BY Year
ORDER BY Year

This gives me some numbers that I can easily past into Excel and produce a graph:

2011 was our most popular in the 5 years that Autodesk Labs has been in existence. The top 10 downloads that accounted for this popularity were:

And what should come as no surprise, the most popular technology preview in 2011 was:

Thanks to everyone who makes Autodesk Labs possible. Without a community, it's just a web site. Without downloads and actual usage, it's just all talk. Thanks for trying these technology previews and proving meaningful feedback.

Tabulation is alive in the lab.