ComScore: Facebook traffic surged after 'open' registration
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Blog: Internet statistics firm says social-networking site experienced 89 percent growth in traffic, mostly outside "collegiate" demographic, when it dropped its exclusivity.
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DynamicWebPages.de has their latest PHP Usage Statistics posted today. Things just keep looking up for PHP usage - this month it gained a good chunk of domains from last month.
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CHICAGO _ The Internet's booming social-networking trend has reached a new milestone: Web sites are beginning to pay for content.
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Social-networking sites are using up such huge amounts of bandwidth that ISPs, universities, and businesses struggle to keep pace.
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Sam blogs about his wiki spam problems  and implements a posting throttle.  With new spam-capable zombie PCs and with wikis that aren't updated very often this isn't a solution.  If I were to go back to my wiki after a month it would be covered with spam links.  One strong solution is emergent and distributed social whitelists (AKA my FOAFKey  proposal).  With a FOAFKey enabled wiki/weblog you could allow a whitelist of a few hundred thousand users to post to the wiki without any problems.  All they would need to enter is their email address for confirmation (or the SHA1 hash of their email).  For the rare times when the user isn't within the original whitelist we can just have the user uplo ...
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Social networking site Facebook has just opened up its doors to the web's million-plus web application programmers. At a San Francisco launch event Thursday, the company debuted its new application framework that lets outside developers write programs to run on Facebook's website.
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Facebook.com, the No. 2 U.S.   social network site that is quickly expanding beyond its   college student base, has been met with a sudden privacy   backlash by users after it made design changes this week.
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The simple answer is no. Despite this, one of the best ways to increase your organic traffic is to start an aggressive PPC campaign.
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Plus: New reputation score follows you online. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Andreas Gohr has posted some info and code about one of the social networking/linking services out there, StumbleUpon. His post includes PHP code to figure out what your site's StumbleUpon ranking is.   StumbleUpon recently(?) added a "search result enhancement" feature to their toolbar. It adds StumbleUpon "star ratings" to Google results (See screenshot). This got me interested and I had a closer look at their extension...   As part of this "closer look" he came up with the code to return a general ranking for the URL you would give it. It does require a StumbleUpon auth key and username, but if you use the service already, you're one step ahead on that.
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According to Heather Hopkins at Hitwise, more people in the UK are interested in Facebook than MySpace which may lead to the toppling of MySpace and Bebo as the most popular social networks in the UK. This week, Facebook continued to climb and so overtook MySpace. This means that the volume of UK searches for &#8220;facebook&#8221; [...]
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comScore has released some data which shows significant gains in the amount of search advertisements which were clicked during the first week of the new Yahoo Search Marketing Panama ranking &#038; Quality Index roll out. The overall Yahoo Search Marketing click thru rate rose from 10.1% to 11.1% two weeks after the launch.  Reuters adds: Data collected [...]
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft drew the largest number of Web site visitors worldwide in December, a recurring accomplishment that makes the company's disappointing online ad business all the more disconcerting. Close to 509 million unique visitors, ages 15 and up, went to Microsoft Web sites in December, comScore Networks said Wednesday. Google came in second with a little over 494 million, while Yahoo landed in third place with almost 477 million unique visitors. Microsoft also led in March 2006, and its lead over Google was bigger. Microsoft had almost 539 million unique visitors to almost 496 million for Google. Third place went to Yahoo with little over 480 million. However, the difference in online ad revenue between Microsoft and its two rivals is massive, a sign that, despite heavy investments in the past three years, Microsoft isn't close to matching their ability to monetize Web site traffic, especially Google's torrid growth in the search engine space. In the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2006,Â Google's revenue, which comes mostly from search engine ads, grew 70 percent to $2.69 billion, whileÂ Yahoo's revenue, mostly derived from various forms of online ads, came in at $1.58 billion, up 19 percent. By comparison, in that same quarter, Microsoft's Online Services Business, which includes online ad and Internet access sales, generated only $539 million in revenue, down from $564 million in the same quarter the previous year. Microsoft executives have acknowledged that the Achilles heel of its online ad business is its search engine segment. In December, Microsoft's share of U.S. search engine queries continued to fall, landing at 10.5 percent, a distant third place from leader Google, which nabbed 47.3 percent, comScore said in a separate study. In July 2005, Microsoft's U.S. search engine query share stood at 15.5 percent and Google's at 36.5 percent, according to comScore. Overall, unique Web site visitors grew 10 percent globally from December 2005 to December 2006 to almost 741 million. Microsoft and Yahoo both grew 5 percent each. However, Google topped the market growth category with a 13 percent increase, in part due to its international appeal and to the rising popularity of some of its non-Web search services, comScore said. For example, Google's image search engine grew its unique visitors by 40 percent, Gmail by 71 percent, and Google Maps by 62 percent.
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The new Facebook application for the Rhapsody music service shows some of the advantages of integrating powerful applications into Facebookâs environment.
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Facebook.com reveals even more than its online exhibitionists want.
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Blog: Popular social-networking site makes its first buy: Parakey, a Web start-up created by Firefox's co-founders.
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Research reveals which social network site is capturing the hearts and clicks of Britons.