Searching for the “Homo Digitalis” 1
Since many years more and more Anthropologists are studying human behavior on Internet. Cyberanthropologism is becoming increasingly important for understanding the complexity of the Homo Digitalis.
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10 Iphone apps you shouldn´t miss 1
Making a list of exciting Iphone applications is always a task, moreover when you have more than 100.000 applications available. Nevertheless, I choose 10 applications that are extremely useful for your daily life and you shouldn’t miss.
13 extensions for Google Chrome 0
Google has been working hard on giving a lift to Google Chrome platform. Even do still there is a long way to go, during the last two week some interesting developments put additional hope on Chrome’s future. For instance they launched a Beta version for Mac and Linux and also a extensions gallery from where you can upload and download a growing number of applications.
The current gallery is extremely simple, but you can get a good feeling on the top applications downloaded by users. And based on that ranking, I would like to share the top 10 extensions for Google Chrome.
17% of all internet traffic is social media 0
Social networking and blog sites accounted for 17% of all internet activity worldwide during last August. This means that every one out of six minutes online is devoted to social media activities according to Nielsen Company.
The popularity of sites like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, MySpace is four times higher than 2005. On September 2009, Facebook reached 300 Millions users and also increased their user time spent on the site in more than 83% compared to last year.
Internet is not as fragmented as you think! 1
For most of us the perception of Internet traffic as a fragmented collection of websites, similar to the long tail of content available is a fairly good representation.
But according to a latest reports from Arbor Network there is a consolidation happening. In that sense, 6% of world’s traffic is related to Google sites, becoming the company that receives more traffic in the globe.
Online ad spending surpasses TV 0
Probably we’ve reached a key milestone in the history of online advertising. For the first time in UK, the internet advertising spending exceeded TV during the first half of 2009, according to Pricewaterhouse Coopers.
By this way, online advertising has grown 100 times during the last 10 years.
