What do music buyers do after buying music online?
Go to the artist’s or band’s website 39% Look online for live performances by that artist 28 Read websites or blogs about the music 26 Post the music to your page on MySpace, Facebook, or another website 8 Post your own reviews,...
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Has Google demoted FeedBurner?
FeedBurner blog site statistics have been down for over two days with no word from Google despite numerous complaints from users. Does Google's lack of response suggest something we don't know? by Michael Krigsman
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"Family Guy" creator and Google team up
It's unknown what kind of money was involved in the deal, but Google has teamed up with the creator of Family Guy to create two minute episodes of a new cartoon called "Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy". MacFarlane will take a percentage of the profit made by advertising...
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How much extra audience does a Web site gain by having a mobile version?
Category Lift, % Total 13 Weather 22 Entertainment 22 Games 15 Music 15 Email 11 Sports 10 Business/Finance 4 Social Networking 3 Search 2 Shopping/Auctions 1 ...
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Mystery explained: Why you have to reboot Windows so often
You know the drill: you've been using your Windows computer for a while when things start to go wrong. Your programs slow down, or you start getting inexplicable error messages. Your cursor lags, or when you move windows around they leave droppings on the screen. It's that time again. Time...
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Top visited US TV websites in 2006-2008 TV seasons
Rank Network Website 2007-08 Season 2006-07 Season Growth 1. ABC www.abc.com 27.14% 29.89% -9% 2. NBC www.nbc.com 27.01% 32.89% -18% 3. CBS www.cbs.com 21.51% 15.24% 41% 4. FOX Fox Aggregation 17.54% 16.55% 6% 5. The CW www.cwtv.com 6.61% 5.20% 27%...
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Top-visited US broadcast TV show websites in 2007
Rank Network Website Average Market Share 1 FOX American Idol 14.01% 2 NBC Deal or No Deal 13.33% 3 ABC Dancing with the Stars 7.33% 4 CBS Survivor: Micronesia 4.78% 5 FOX America’s Most Wanted 3.86% 6 NBC...
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'.wow': ICANN to allow almost any domain suffix
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has accepted a proposal allowing companies, cities and others to use almost any suffix they want for a web address. At its meeting in Paris, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN, a not-for-profit organization that...
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Nokia N78 North American version now available
I have been checking out the European version of the Nokia N78 and am quite impressed with the device. I recieved a note that the North American 3G-enabled version of the N78 is now available at the Nokia Flagship stores in New York and Chicago or via other retailers shown...
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Google releases Trends for Websites
Google Trends was originally released as a tool that let you see visual comparisons between search volume of keywords. That hasn't changed, but Google now also gives us the keys to more data about actual popularity of websites based on daily unique visitors. ...
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China detains web site defacer spreading earthquake rumors
The Xinhua news agency is reporting that the web site defacer which I mentioned in a previous post regarding the use of web site defacements as tools for psychological operations, has been located and detained in less than a week after he defaced the Seismic Emergency and Public Center of...
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Kapow takes a jab at challenge of creating mashups from JavaScript and AJAX sources
The Portal Content Edition, which enables companies to refurbish existing portal assets, has several enhancements to the web clipping technology for development and deployment of JSR-168 standards based portlets. It now provides the ability to make on-the-fly changes to clipping portlets that enhance portal functionality, while adding a portlet deployment...
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Flixwagon and Qik demo streaming video from an iPhone
Flixwagon made an announcement about an upcoming iPhone client earlier today, followed shortly by an announcement from Qik that they too have an iPhone client going to alpha testers soon. The clients run on jailbroken iPhones, but should eventually be coming to the iPhone 3G and original iPhone when the...
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Top-10 Rankings music -bands and artists category in US in April, 2008
Rank Website Domain Share 1 Coldplay www.coldplay.com 2.53% 2 Def Leppard www.defleppard.com 1.91% 3 The Clayboard theclayboard.yuku.com 1.73% 4 Bill Gaither www.gaither.com 1.28% 5 Chris Brown www.chrisbrownworld.com 1.23% 6 Neil Diamond www.neildiamond.com 1.07% 7 Beyonce World...
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Top-growing US web sites in US in March 2008
Mar-08 Apr-08 Growth, & Rank Total Internet 188,010 190,728 1 N/A PlayList.com 5,548 7,632 38 137 MLB.com 9,799 13,318 36 76 IRS.gov 17,311 23,354 35 34 TheStreet.com Sites 3,733 4,667 25 238 Chrysler LLC...
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Silverlight e-learning videos worth watching
I thought I'd write some more "senseless low-quality crap that regularly fills ZDNet and that's only designed to draw readers in". I thank "kouzen" for his insight, but you Sir, are an idiot. Moving along... Technology-oriented students have long used the power of the Internet to make...
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News to know: Jobs speaks; Microsoft; Healthline; Enterprise 2.0; HTC
Notable headlines: WWDC kick-off: Larry Dignan: Jobs' Apple as a platform mantra to accelerate PGP rolls out Whole Disk Encryption for Mac Matthew Miller: SlingPlayer Mobile on the iPhone will be demoed at Apple's WWDC this week News.com live...
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How users learn about new cell phones
Go to websites of cell phone manufacturers or phone companies 76% Use websites that compare cell phone features and prices 59 Read reviews of cell phones on websites or blogs 50 Post queries in chat rooms, listservs or other online forums...
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Phoenix Mars Lander's mission site hacked
With the world's eyes on the latest multimedia streaming straight from Mars, during the weekend the Phoenix Mars Mission's site got hit twice, first by an Ukrainian web site defacer who posted a message at the site's blog, and hours later, the Turkish "sql loverz crew 2008" redirected the official...
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What people do after buying music online
Ages 18-35 Ages 36-50 Age 51+ Go to the artist’s or band’s website 45% 40 29 Look online for live performances by that artist 29 28 26 Read websites or blogs about the music 33 26 16 Post...
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