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Processing terabytes of property records
Date: 03/11/08
Keywords: technology, database, web
David Beitel, CTO of Zillow.com describes how the company is using technology to process millions of new property records into an electronic database and then post on the company's web site in a user-friendly format. by Administrator
Source: http://video.zdnet.com/CIOSessions/?p=263
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Qik and the Space Shuttle Endeavour launch
Date: 03/11/08
Keywords: no keywords
The market for video on-demand, streaming and other forms of video content production is set to explode. In the last year, I can think of at least seven new services that have grabbed attention: Qik, Seesmic, Ustream.tv, Mogulus, bambuser, Veotag and DailyMotion - all of which have some appeal. I've...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/enterprisealley/?p=120
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Top Web sites in Japan in January 2008
Date: 03/10/08
Keywords: yahoo, microsoft, google
Jan-08 Rank Dec-07 Rank Property Audience, 000 N/A N/A Total Audience 54,544 1 1 Yahoo! Sites 42,964 2 2 Google Sites 32,966 3 4 Rakuten Inc 29,921 4 3 Microsoft Sites 29,371 5 5 NTT...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14116
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Microsoft DeepZoom + PhotoZoom = Another Software+Service combination
Date: 03/09/08
Keywords: software, microsoft
Microsoft is continuing to roll out more Software+Service (S+S) combinations, the latest being the DeepZoom-PhotoZoom combination. DeepZoom is a feature of Silverlight 2, Microsoft's next release of its Flash competitor which is due out this fall. DeepZoom "allows users to explore collections of super high resolution imagery,...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1252
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MobiTV: failed security opens gaping hole
Date: 03/07/08
Keywords: security
Update 3/7/08 7:45pm EST: CNET news reports MobiTV has withdrawn the threats, backpeddled on its original legal intentions, and is fixing the security problems. What were those guys smoking in starting all this nonsense? Cell phone television supplier, MobiTV, issued a cease and...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=632
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Google gives developers access to your contacts
Date: 03/07/08
Keywords: web, google
Developers now have an official Contacts API they can use to create, read, update and delete your contacts -- but there is a catch. Thankfully, in order for a website to get this level of access to your list, you must sign into your Google Account and give the...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=960
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95% of MySpace December 2007 traffic was repeat visitors
Date: 03/05/08
Keywords: web
MySpace received 95% of its share of traffic from returning visitors. Among the top five social-networking websites by market share, Facebook and BlackPlanet.com followed with 93% and 89%, respectively, of traffic returning from the previous month, according to Hitwise. In December 2007, the average time spent on Bebo led among...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14088
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17% of Web users think official product sites are useless
Date: 03/05/08
Keywords: web
Only 14% of users conduct research on branded consumer-packaged goods (CPG) Web sites. According to the results, consumers who don’t conduct their research at a CPG product web site told us their reason was because: don’t know about the branded product sites (67%); don’t find the branded product sites helpful...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14089
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Top Web sites in Canada in January 2008
Date: 03/02/08
Keywords: yahoo, microsoft, google
January 2008 Rank December 2007 Rank Property Audience, 000 N/A N/A Total audience 23,802 1 2 Google Sites 22,440 2 1 Microsoft Sites 22,424 3 3 Yahoo! Sites 16,481 4 4 Facebook.com 15,354 5 5...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14072
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23% of Americans regularly work from offsite locations
Date: 03/01/08
Keywords: technology, web
US workers aged 18-34 prefer flexible working conditions 2:1 over other age groups. 70% of Citrix survey respondents agreed that working remotely would be a welcome opportunity. Although 23% of American workers regularly work from an offsite location, using Web technology to do their jobs, 62% of those who don’t...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14053
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US e-commerce spending reached $34.7 bln by Q3 2007
Date: 02/29/08
Keywords: no keywords
E-commerce revenue has grown from $7.4 bln at the middle of 2000 to $34.7 bln in Q3 2007, up from $29.1 bln in Q3 2006, and $24.1 bln Q3 2005, according to Pew Internet. In 2007 e-commerce accounts for 3.4% of total retail sales in the US, up from 0.8%...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14055
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Top Web sites in UK in January 2008
Date: 02/29/08
Keywords: yahoo, microsoft, google, ebay
January 2008 Rank December 2007 Rank Property Audience, 000 N/A N/A Total Audience 33,254 1 1 Google Sites 29,633 2 2 Microsoft Sites 28,102 3 3 eBay 21,363 4 4 Yahoo! Sites 21,208 5 5...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14049
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Judge reconsiders injunction in Wikileaks case
Date: 02/29/08
Keywords: no keywords
If you're a lawyer, you gotta love this. At the end of the day Thursday, Federal Judge Jeffrey White -- the judge who issued the shut-down notice against Wikileaks -- released his questions for argument (PDF) for Friday morning's hearing regarding that order. White also...
Source: http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3684
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Top Web sites in France in January 2008
Date: 02/28/08
Keywords: microsoft, google
January 2008 Rank December 2007 Rank Property Audience, 000 N/A N/A Total Internet 29,231 1 1 Google Sites 20,814 2 2 Microsoft Sites 19,072 3 3 Orange Sites 15,331 4 4 Iliad/Free.fr Sites 13,057 5...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14046
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Statement from bank in Wikileaks case
Date: 02/28/08
Keywords: web
Julius Baer just moved this statement to reporters: Julius Baer wishes to address certain misconceptions relating to a recent court decision to take the Wikileaks.org website off line. This decision was arrived at only after a month long effort on the part...
Source: http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3679
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Income levels and levels of confidence in e-commerce
Date: 02/28/08
Keywords: no keywords
Income level and e-commerce behavior $100K CONFIDENT that you will make the right purchase decision 81% 68% 79% 85% 86% RELIEVED by information found online 69 61 69 67 62 EAGER to share new knowledge with others 68 53 55 53...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14032
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Elton John to Larry King: I don't have a computer or a mobile phone
Date: 02/26/08
Keywords: web
During last night's Larry King show, Larry asked Elton John for the Web address of the Elton John AIDS Foundation. BTW, a noble cause- a benefit for which Elton played after the Academy Awards Sunday night. As to Larry's question, Elton admitted: ...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=3308
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A green roundhouse
Date: 02/26/08
Keywords: asp
According to Forbes, two architects are building a roundhouse to make it more energy-efficient. The architects claim that their 'new methodology dramatically improves all aspects of the design and construction of buildings.' Their first realization 'will be a 13,000-square-foot residence set on a 3.25-acre lot in the canyons above Beverly...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=846
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19% of online ad spending in 2007 was with portals, down from 24%
Date: 02/25/08
Keywords: web
For 2007, online ad spending through Avenue A/Razorfish was $735 mln, up 36% from 2006, and the number of Web sites that ads were placed on doubled to more than 1,800, according to the 2008 Digital Outlook Report. The share spent on portals dropped from 24% in 2006 to 19%,...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=13998
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Join a user group
Date: 02/25/08
Keywords: no keywords
This weekend was the tenth anniversary of the Philadelphia PowerBook Users Group (PPUG), a mobile Mac user group I co-founding with my podcasting partner Rob Parker. Being at that meeting this weekend reminded me about why user group meetings are great: I learn something at every meeting. ...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1337