Date: 02/21/08     Keywords: web

Facebook had 8.5 mln unique UK users in January 2008, and remains the most popular social networking website in the UK, according to Nielsen Online. MySpace ranked second in terms of UK social networking websites in January 2008, with 5 mln unique users, while Bebo was ranked third with 4.1...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=13970

Date: 02/20/08     Keywords: offshore, web

WikiLeaks has not been shut down. It's more available than ever. I had not intended on commenting about this story. I have seen it and seen it, ever since the Web was spun. Local government tries to suppress something, data gets routed offshore. Chinese...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2041

Date: 02/20/08     Keywords: google

In some ways Dot Bomb 2.0 has already begun. Google is down 27% since the start of the year. Once solid niches like consumer health are starting to falter. As Time-Warner set off Dot Bomb 1.0 by acquiring AOL, putting a cap on potential...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2039

Date: 02/18/08     Keywords: web

In the rapidly escalating story of Wikileaks.org, (here) a California court has ordered the domain registrar, Dynadot, to erase all DNS entries for the domain, effectively erasing a website that hosts millions of documents purportedly "leaked" to the wiki-style site in the name of whistle-blowing on malfeasance. If...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=541

Date: 02/18/08     Keywords: no keywords

TWiL regular John Palfrey announced a great idea last week while we were recording the forthcoming episode: a Facebook group drafting Professor Lessig for a recently vacated Congressional seat. Says John, "It's high time we had our first true Free Culture candidate for public...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howell/?p=215

Date: 02/16/08     Keywords: web

Those ages 12-17 are more likely to create or contribute to webpages for others than they are to maintain their own site. Currently, 33% of online teens say they create or work on pages for others, including for friends, for groups they belong to, or for school assignments. This incidence...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=13937

Date: 02/15/08     Keywords: no keywords

The average visit time for the Dating category during the week ending Feb. 9, 2008, was 17 minutes and 7 seconds, up from 14 minutes and 5 seconds, for the same week during the previous year. For the week ending Feb. 9, 2008, the average time spent on Plentyoffish.com led...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=13940

Date: 02/14/08     Keywords: software, microsoft

Information Week is reporting on a new Microsoft initiative designed to convince young people of the serious consequences associated with copyright infringement. Microsoft recently conducted a series of studies and found that kids were less likely to violate copyright law (whether for software or digital media) if they were...

Source: http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1526

Date: 02/13/08     Keywords: yahoo, microsoft, google

Yahoo! continued to lead the market in Japan with more than 42 mln visitors in December 2007. Google captured the second position with 32 mln visitors, followed by Microsoft with 30 mln visitors. The top 25 properties held relatively constant in their positions from November 2007, with small position gains...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=13933

Date: 02/13/08     Keywords: web

The market share of US visits to the Employment category increased 27% for the week ending Jan. 26, 2008, compared to the same week in 2007. Through the first four weeks of 2008, visits to the Employment category have increased 22% on average, compared to 2007. The most-visited website for...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=13924

Date: 02/13/08     Keywords: web

Super Bowl XLII advertiser websites with the largest increases in market share of visits on Super Bowl Sunday 2008 were Hyundai, up 1450%, Paramount’s Ironman Movie, up 800% and GoDaddy.com, which increased 616%. Budlight.com and Budweiser.com increased 100% and 25 percent on Sunday from the previous day, respectively. Both the...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=13913

Date: 02/12/08     Keywords: web

Barackobama.com was the most visited website among all presidential candidates for the week ending February 2, 2008. Barackobama.com received 36% of U.S. visits amongst presidential candidate websites for last week of February, 2008 and increased 20% compared to the previous week. Hillaryclinton.com was the second most visited candidate website receiving...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=13905

Date: 02/08/08     Keywords: web

70% of Americans expect to be able to get information or services from the government agency website when they need it, according to the Pew Internet Project. Only 23% do not expect that. 80% of internet users expect the government websites to provide what they need, compared with only 41%...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=13876

Date: 02/08/08     Keywords: technology, security

Court order lets Homeland Security obtain precise location data from T-Mobile about customer's movements in real time. Police Blotter is a weekly News.com report on the intersection of technology and the law. What: Minnesota man charged with alien smuggling says data from a location tap of...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6229805.html

Date: 02/07/08     Keywords: web

41% of 18-29 year olds listed more than one website, compared with just 24% of people age 30 and over, according to the Pew Internet Project. Both MySpace and YouTube are sources of campaign information unique to younger people. MySpace is cited as a campaign news source by 8% of...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=13879

Date: 02/06/08     Keywords: web

78% internet users have visited government websites to seek information or assistance, according to the Pew Internet Project. They most commonly visit a local, state or federal government website: a total of 71% have done this, including 66% in the past year. 38% of them have gone online to research...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=13852

Date: 02/06/08     Keywords: web, yahoo

Worldwide, 97 mln people visited Web sites devoted to matchmaking in December 2007, according to ComScore. That number is a 10% drop from 2006 level. Globally Match.com is the leader in online dating space, followed by MSN Dating & Personals, followed by Yahoo! Personals and Meetic, which is a European...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=13850

Date: 02/04/08     Keywords: no keywords

First of all, if you publish a "secret," is it still a "secret?" I mean, is Victoria's Secret a secret still? OK, enough o'that. Let me explain to you why we're going where we are. I once read somewhere, that a...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=3160

Date: 02/03/08     Keywords: yahoo, microsoft

I've had perhaps a dozen emails over the last several days asking what I think of Microsoft's offer to buy out Yahoo's shareholders. So here's what I think - first on motivation and prospects. Some mergers are defensive, some are driven by...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1059

Date: 02/01/08     Keywords: web

In December 2007, 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. Name Domain Returning New ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=13777