More Americans rolling their own wired content: survey
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Out of all the multimedia uses popular today, most people are creating their own online content including Web sites, music, videos and blogs.
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The majority of Internet users in the U.S. have ditched dial-up, survey says.
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The Internet serves more as a town hall in the United States than an echo chamber as users are more likely to be exposed to a wide range of political views, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
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New Pew Internet study says nearly 30 percent of U.S. residents tag online content.
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The number of US households that use Net phone technology is expected to reach 12 million by 2009, a new study has shown. About 17 percent of all broadband homes in the United States will use Web telephony
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A quarter of online Americans have taken advantage of one of the Internet's true powers: the ability to let users collectively decide whether to trust a product, service or individual.
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Nielsen//NetRatings is reporting that broadband connections for the first time reached 51 percent of the American online population at home during the month of July, as compared to 38 percent last July. Sixty-three million Web ...
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Online buying continues to snowball, according to the results of a recent America Online survey. This year, for the first time, Americans who regularly use the Internet for shopping -- researching
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(InfoWorld) - Tagging, the emblematic activity of the "Web 2.0" and social computing era, appears destined for mainstream status, a new study concludes. Among U.S. Internet users, 28 percent have taggedÂ online content like blog entries, photos, Web sites, video clips, and news articles, The Pew Internet & American Life Project reports in a study released Wednesday. On any particular day, 7 percent of users engage in this activity to categorize and label material they upload or find on the Web. Justen Deal, a manager in Los Angeles who tags news articles on sites like Slashdot, believes that as the use of tagging increases, it will give blogging and the Web in general a significant boost by making content easier to organize and discover. "Right now we have one great big pile of stuff on the Web, and especially in the blogosphere," Deal said. "With tagging, both by the content author and the public, I think there'll be a good opportunity to start moving content into more specific, relevant piles, that would help make sorting through the blogosphere a lot easier and a lot more useful for a lot of people." Because this is Pew's first survey about tagging, the study doesn't quantify how fast tagging adoption is growing, but it points at the rising popularity of tagging sites like Flickr and del.icio.us as an indicator that the practice is increasing in popularity. Jill Hurst-Wahl, president of Hurst Associates, a digitization consulting firm in Syracuse, New York, began tagging about a year ago and finds it very useful and convenient. Recently, she has attended conferences in which attendees agree to tag their blog postings and photos about the event with specific labels. This has made it possible for her to find a wealth of material online from conference attendees in a way that would have been impossible, or at least much more difficult, without tagging. While she finds the 28 percent adoption rate the study reveals encouraging,Â Hurst-Wahl still encounters many people who are completely unfamiliar with the concept of tagging or who, ironically, do tag, but don't recognize the term or fully comprehend the scope of the practice. "To some extent, tagging is user friendly, but a lot of people don't understand it," she said in a phone interview. Tagging is catching on as people realize the convenience of categorizing sites and files online and as large Internet players like Google and Yahoo, which owns Flickr and del.icio.us, offer tagging features in their services, like Web mail, search, photo and video sharing,and social bookmarking, according to Pew. "The act of tagging is likely to be embraced by a more mainstream population in the future because many organizations are making it easier and easier to tag Internet content," the report reads. By giving people the chance to organize online content they're interested in and sharing it with others, tagging helps with the perennial challenge of finding useful things on the Web. "Tagging is a kind of next-stage search phenomenon -- a way to mark, store, and then retrieve the Web content that users already found valuable and of which they want to keep track," the report reads. For its study, Pew surveyed adult U.S. residents in December 2006 and found that men and women are equally likely to tag content online. "Taggers" are more likely to be under the age of 40, to have high education and income levels, and to have broadband Internet access at home.
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Surfing the net has become an  obsession for many Americans with the majority of U.S. adults  feeling they cannot go for a week without going online and one  in three giving up friends and sex for the Web.
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More television viewers are turning to  the Internet to watch videos, films and TV episodes, according  to a new survey.
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A new study finds that more Americans are using the Internet to find a place to live, thanks to the greater wealth of home listings and other real-estate information online.
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TechWeb - New owners signed up for accounts and downloaded software, according to a Hitwise survey.
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An America Online survey tells us what we want to hear.
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Young Americans spend more than 72 hours a week using the Internet, cell phones, television, music and video games, a study says.
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New survey on Internet attitudes says nearly a quarter of Americans believe the Internet could take the place of a partner for a time.
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Retired people are starting to prefer  browsing the Internet to more traditional pastimes such as  gardening, travel and DIY, according to a survey on Friday.