Gary Eckstein Internet 0 2010, 2011, android, facebook, iphone, lists, smartphones, stats, tech, top10, twitter, WordPress
As 2010 draws to a close, here are a few numbers to show just how significant and popular the Web (and associated services) is: Email Spam Stats If you think that you get alot of spam then consider that ‘in 2010 an average of 183 billion spam emails were sent per day’. Perhaps it’s time [...]
Gary Eckstein Social Media 0 facebook, JavaScript, mysql, php, Social network
The popularity of Facebook is remarkable! Many people don’t ‘get’ Facebook however even the most passionate of sceptics cannot be amazed by how widely, and often, Facebook is used. Here are some of the amazing Facebook stats: Image via Wikipedia Facebook has hundreds of millions of signed-up users. Of that, 500 million are active (sign-in [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 0 anti-virus, antivirus, Australia, Canada, chat rooms, computer identity, computer protection, facebook, Hong Kong, information theft, korea, malware, New Zealand, Online, Privacy, privacy safeguards, scammers, security, social networking, social networking sites, Software, technology, virus protection
This week is ‘Privacy Awareness Week’ 2010 and as such it is urged that we familiarise ourselves with our rights, obligations and best-practice in relation to privacy. The few recommendations below, from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, are related to Computer identity and information theft. They are well worth reading through: Make [...]
Gary Eckstein Social Media 0 backflip, blog, blogger, blogging, blogs, bookmarking, competitive advantage, delicious, facebook, gaia, Internet, linkedin, mister wong, myspace, myyearbook, Nielsen, product differentiation, sharing, slashkey, social bookmarking, social bookmarking sites, Social Media, social networking, social networking site, social networking sites, tagged, twitter, web
Nielsen this week released comparisons showing the enormous growth in the amount of time spent on the most visited Social Media sites from April 2008 to April 2009. The numbers are truly astounding. The Social Media / Social Bookmarking / Sharing industry is still in its infancy. We’ll definitely be seeing consolidation and / or [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 2 Australia, australian websites, blogs, facebook, flickr, Internet, internet visitors, live, online video, photos, search engines, seo, streaming, toyota, WordPress, world of warcraft, yahoo, youtube
If you doubt just how enormous the Internet is, just consider this: 20 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. WordPress.com gets 18,000 pageviews a minute on the Blogs it hosts Flickr hosts over 3 billion photos More than 100 million users log on to Facebook at least once each day
