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Improve your web site's performance with WebDriven's Site Audit
At this time of year, clients routinely ask us to review their web sites and provide recommendations on how to improve the user experience and increase traffic. For a relatively small investment, the WebDriven team will perform a comprehensive audit...
Internet Usage Study Confirms Shift Toward Content over Communication
Back in 2003, email communications took up about 50% of the time users spent online each month. Content consumption is now moving close to that 50% mark as email slides downward....
Facebook More Popular than Twitter and Email for Sharing Content
So, which platform is the most popular for sharing content? We gave you a bit of a head start with our title but here's another tip -- it's not email.According to AddtoAny, which makes a popular "Share This" widget, Facebook...
What the Trend Simplifies Tracking of Twitter Trends
If you're like me, trying to make sense of Twitter trends can be a bit daunting. The tools at Twitter Trends give me an idea of what's hot but not necessarily why. Enter What the Trend....
Video Site Usage Up 2000% since 2003; Social Media Usage Up 883%
Nielsen just released its Global Online Landscape study which underscores the growing shift toward video and social media....
Twitter Growth Compared to Facebook, Google
From John Battelle's rather resourceful Searchblog comes a post today comparing the first three years of growth for newcomer Twitter with Facebook and Google....
Five Web Trends to Watch for 2009: Mobile Web Gets Real
While Europe and Asia have typically outpaced the US in terms of mobile web usage, the release of Apple's iPhone may have helped level the handheld playing field. The iPhone has been called the "new personal computer" and perhaps that...
Social Media Gets Presidential for Barack Obama
The guys over at CNet have compiled reports of web usage during the Inauguration of President Barack Obama which indicate record traffic for the period leading up to and including President Obama's swearing-in and speech....
TwitScoop Monitors Twitter Trends
Twitter aka the twitosphere seems to grow as a metric for predicting web trends or hot topics, at least among certain segments of the web audience. TwitScoop gives you the ability to see in "tag cloud" fashion just what tweets...
Most users ignore security patches says new Sophos study
Software security firm Sophos has just released a new study which finds that more than 60% of users don't apply security patches and more than half disable firewall software....
Google Offers Hosted AJAX Solution
The gang at Google Labs have announced a new hosted AJAX library solution intended to provide a globally-available, load-balanced sets of common used toolsets which are often used in the development of web-based applications....
'Generation Virtual' Creates Challenges for Online Marketing
In recent research completed by Gartner Group, analyst Adam Sarner adds Generation Virtual or Generation 'V' into the alphabet soup of generational grouping (e.g., Gen X, Gen Y and so on). Sarner suggests that companies and organizations have to dramatically...
Yahoo Unlocks Search, Mail Platforms with Yahoo Open Strategy
With its Yahoo Open Strategy, Yahoo drops its bid toward an open platform for custom application built on core elements of the web services site. As with other platform plays from Facebook and Google, Yahoo is trying to entice the...
Borders Unveils New Digital-Friendly Concept Store
Earlier this year Ann Arbor, Michigan-based book retailer Borders unveiled a new concept store in its hometown. With an eye to creating an environment more enticing to the digitally-enabled, the new store allows customers to not only purchase books but...
German Wikipedia Goes to Print
Monster & Critics reports that the German edition of Wikipedia (Wikipedia Deutschland) will soon be available in print form....
LAMP My Ride: The Pursuit of the Open Source Car
Open source software -- with its emphasis on a network of programmers and developers to create and enhance the final product -- has led much of the Web 2.0 revolution. In recent years, groups of engineers are trying to apply...
Three Keys to Wikipedia Monitoring
Increasingly, a user looking for your organization's name on a search engine like Google or Yahoo! is going to see a listing in Wikipedia near the top of the search. Wikipedia is a user-generated, user-governed online resource which like a...
Virgin America's In-Flight Techie Nirvana: Do I really want to IM with the guy in 23B?
This post takes a quick (light-hearted) look at the tech-friendly bounty to be offered by Virgin America Airlines. According to news reports and the airline's website, Virgin America plans to offer a host of nifty features for the tech-savvy, iPod/iPhone/Zune/Blackberry/Laptop-toting...
What's That: Mashups
What is a mashup? Put simply, a mashup combines a variety of online information - data, images, maps, products and so on - into one web application. But where did they come from and what do you do with them?...
