If you are running an internet business that is popular across a number of online platforms, then tracking and managing it over all those platforms can become quite a hectic task. Keeping its traffic stats in check along with managing
15 Mind Blowing Facts About the Internet
Very interesting facts about the Internet presented in an infographic way.
http://janeknight.typepad.com/pick/2010/08/15-mind-blowing-facts-about-the-internet-.html…
Facebook Hits 500 Million Active Users
Facebook has just announced that they now have 500 million active users, a substantial percentage of the world, and far more total users than the US has citizens. Using the most recent world population estimates, 7.4% of all people in …
World’s Biggest Supercomputing Superpowers
Which country has the most powerful supercomputers? If you trust the annual top 500 list, recently published at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, it’s the U.S., followed by China, Germany, United Kingdom and France.
The 1000 most-visited sites on the web
Courtesy of Google, the 1,000 most-visited sites on the web (excluding Google). The most-visited site, Facebook, has more pageviews then at least the next 99 sites combined.
Canadian Internet Use (2009)
An interesting document from Statistics Canada showing the use of Internet in Canada in 2009.
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/100510/dq100510a-eng.htm…
Moodle Growth World Wide (image)
Just a cool little gif that shows Moodle growth (officially reported only) since 2003:
Growth of the Internet from 1998 to 2008 (interactive chart)
BBC News has a very cool interactive chart up, showing how Internet had grown from 1998 to 2008 in various parts of the world.
Twitter Speeding Towards 10 Billion Tweets
About one year ago Twitter reached a huge milestone: one billion tweets. Four months ago, 5 billion tweets were served. And now, in about one day, Twitter should reach another very important milestone: 10 billion tweets.
Visualizing 6 Years of Facebook
Facebook was launched on February 4, 2004 and has come a long way from a Harvard-only networking site in the intervening years. In fact, Facebook has undoubtedly become the world’s largest social network, with over 400 million users worldwide and …
Social Technographics: Conversationalists get onto the ladder
A large number of internet users contribute something to the conversation. This according to a Forrester Social Technographics study. What’s new in this diagram (the original came out three years ago) is the addition of ‘conversationalists’, a class of people …
What you watched and searched for on YouTube in 2009
This year has been the biggest yet for online video, and for the first time we’re sharing our official Most Watched lists and some of the fastest-rising search terms on YouTube. Some moments were big (President Obama’s inauguration), some small …
Twitter Declared Most Popular English Word of 2009
The Global Language Monitor, which tracks language trends, has once again compiled and released its yearly list of the most popular words and phrases within the English language. In 2008, the #1 most popular word was “change” (referring to the …
Facebook’s Road to 350 Million Users
It’s a flabbergasting number, but even more amazing is the speed with which Facebook has managed to achieve it, trouncing its competitors, including the once mighty MySpace, in the process