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• WAN/WEF is cancelled – but still they don´t get it

  January 19, 2009 in Current

  Last summer the big and annual world conference of WAN and WEF took place in Gothenburg, Sweden. Just to be clear, we are talking about the international newspaper industry association. Several of us attending last year were stunned when we heard what many of the industry representatives had to say. Among others, I met up [...]

• WordPress – the most popular platform among the biggest blogs

  January 19, 2009 in Business Intelligence

  Pingdom has investigated what blog platforms are used on the biggest blogs, by using Technorati’s list of the 100 most popular blogs and checking the tools they use. WordPress and Six Apart (Movable Type and Typepad) dominate the list and together they account for 60 of the 100 biggest blogs. WordPress is the most commonly [...]

• Eight out of ten internet users visited a Google site during December 2008

  January 16, 2009 in Business Intelligence

  Google finishes first in comScore’s survey Media Metrix that ranks the biggest companies on the web based on the amount of unique visitors from the USA. The entire internet audience in the USA totaled to 190.7 million during December 2008 according to comScore. Almost eight out of ten (79 percent) of them visited at least [...]

• A third of all internet users have a profile on a social network

  January 15, 2009 in Business Intelligence

  The share of adult internet users in the USA that have a profile on any of the social networking sites has more than quadrupled during the last four years. The numbers have risen from 8 percent in February 2005 to roughly a third (35 percent) of the users by December 2008. All according to results [...]

• 24hbc – only one week left

  January 14, 2009 in Current, Project

  A week from now we are going to fill a boat with almost 100 entrepreneurs and set sail towards an intensive day. During 24 hours we will develop business ideas on the internet, services will be built and they are all going to be launched. It´s a wonderfully ambitious project! Bordering to craziness, but the [...]

• 72 percent of all searches in the USA are through Google

  January 13, 2009 in Business Intelligence

  According to the latest numbers from Hitwise, Google had a market share of 72 percent among search engines in the USA during November 2008. That’s an increase of 11 percent since November 2007, when Google’s share was 65 percent. Only Google saw an increase of searches among the bigger search engines between November 2007 and [...]