Back in May, I conducted the first interview — “The Twuth About Twitter Twends Revealed (by Brit Living in Shanghai)” — with a young technologist named Matt Mayer who’d created a very clever site called What the Trend? (the question mark is an official part of the name, but for the sake of readability, I’ll [...]
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, ‘Sherlock Holmes’ tops the chart this week followed by ‘Daybreakers’. ‘The Men Who Stare at Goats’ completes the top three.
This week there are only two newcomers in the top 10. Sherlock Holmes is the most downloaded movie on BitTorrent for the second week in a row.
The data [...]
Post a question on an online forum and you’ll be bombarded with advice — but it’s sometimes impossible to tell if it’s from people who know what they’re talking about, or from chancers quoting Wikipedia in the hope that a little knowledge will go a long way. The sites below promise the real deal: either [...]
The most significant online viral campaign of the decade was “Mentos and Diet Coke experiments” by Eepybird.com, according to a survey conducted by GoViral.
Dove’s “Evolution” campaign came in second, followed by “Will it blend” by Blendtec.
“‘Mentos experiments with Diet Coke’ was incredibly popular,” said GoViral Chairman Jimmy Maymann. “But what made it a game [...]
It’s easy to get lost on the internet among the millions of useless websites and the couple dozen or so good ones. Unfortunately, some of the few good ones go way under the radar, and you’ve never even heard of them, let alone visit them. Ranging from practical and educational to just plain fun, these [...]
As the market for acquiring fledgling Internet companies heats up, it’s worth taking a look at all those acquisitions that didn’t quite work out. For every Internet acquisition that’s successful there seems to be dozens that die on the vine.
So what makes for a really bad Internet acquisition? First, it has to be expensive. No [...]
We’ve worked with hundreds of eBayers on their pages and these are what we feel are the top ten most common Design mistakes
Pops’ list of 10 things he’s learned running a forum was received very well and seemed to resonate with a lot of our readers. We had several questions and comments on forum promotion so in the spirit of giving the people what they want, a blog post was born. Now, before I go on, I’d [...]
Up to 80% of spam targetted at Internet users in North America and Europe is generated by a hard-core group of around 200 known professional spam gangs whose names, aliases and operations are documented in Spamhaus’ Register Of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) database.
This TOP 10 chart of ROKSO-listed spammers is based on those Spamhaus views [...]
AlertNet asked more than 100 humanitarian professionals, media personalities, academics and activists which of the world’s “forgotten” emergencies they wanted the global media to focus on in 2005. Here are their top choices, with basic facts on each emergency.
Many people are intimidated by the prospect of expanding their forums to cater for a larger audience and attract visitors. The process of analysing a forum, locating its faults and coming up with a solution in order to make it more appealing is by no means an easy task. However, using a few simple ideas, [...]
A United States senator once said it, so it must be true: The Internet isn’t a dump truck, it’s a series of tubes. And many a reputation has gone swirling down those tubes, thanks to the Net’s ability to expose scoundrels, scalawags, liars, cheats, and fools–and then broadcast the scandal to a billion glowing screens.
The [...]
I wrote about ZonTube earlier today1, but that’s just one of the many great web video mashups to be found at ProgrammableWeb. Other mashups that have appeared on NewTeeVee include SofaTube2 and Vidmeter3. These kinds of new applications built on existing sites are made possible by public APIs4 (Application Programming Interfaces). So if you don’t [...]
Live Search went live in 2006, and it has been a great year for us and our users searching the Web. With the year drawing to a close, we decided to put together lists of the top searches for 2006. These lists are the result of studying our anonymous logs for the most searched queries [...]
Newsknife rates news sites on relevance (how), based on our analysis of the main Google News site.
These ratings are based on our sample of 438,330 individual listings at Google News by 4504 sites for 1768 news items during year to date 2006.
If your Internet connection seems slow, the first step is to actually benchmark it at an Internet speed test site. An Internet speed test can give you a fairly accurate indication of how much bandwidth is available to you at the current time.
Whether you have high speed broadband or a dial-up Internet connection, an Internet [...]
Nonprofits that have made the jump from Internet Explorer to Firefox — a free, open-source browser developed by the Mozilla community — often cite better security and tabbed browsing as major reasons for switching. And while Firefox alone is often touted by its users as a convenient, safe, and feature-rich Web-surfing tool, it can be [...]
The Internet is a pretty text-centric universe. While there are successful video websites and blogs, writing is still the primarily means to communicate ideas and opinions. In terms of making money online, there are several ways in which the originality of content is an important element of additional income for anyone who works from home [...]
