More than half of Americans used the Internet as a political resource during the 2008 election, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Some 55 percent of adults and 74 percent of all Internet users went online for news and information about the election or to communicate with others about the race.
Nearly half (45%) of Americans watched online videos related to politics or the election. Young adults led the way in their online video consumption, with close to half of all 18-29 year olds watching online political videos.
The Most Important Domains and Pages on the Web
SEOmoz has a couple of very interesting charts showing the top 500 domains and the top 500 pages being linked to from different places. This paints a pretty good picture of what sites are held in the highest regards by content producers.
Buying and Selling Twitter Accounts?
CNN has acquired "the services" of the creator of one of the most popular accounts on Twitter, which is "cnnbrk," an account that posts CNN breaking news. Currently, the account has just under a million followers.
Jason Kincaid at TechCrunch spoke with James Cox, the account holder and has confirmation from CNN that the account is now in their possession. But it’s not like they just bought "the account"…
Google Referral Change Linked to Faster Search Results Experiment
This week, it was announced that Google was making changes to search referral URLs. Basically, where URLs looked like this before:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=flowers&btnG=Google+Search
They will start looking more like this:
Online-Only Newspapers Face Uphill Battle
Newspapers that make the move to online-only risk losing 75 percent of their revenue and a decline in Web traffic, according to researchers from City University in London.
Their study focused on the Finnish financial newspaper Taloussanomat, which stopped its print version and went online- only in December 2007. The move was made after the paper had suffered significant losses.
By going online-only the papers costs were reduced by 50 percent but its online traffic decreased by 22 percent and revenues fell by more than 75 percent.
Domino’s Pizza Deals With YouTube Nightmare
Yesterday was quite a day for Domino’s Pizza’s leadership and the communication team.
YouTube A Breeding Ground For Ponzi Schemes
Google might be struggling to make money off YouTube, but pyramid schemers are apparently doing just fine. They’re doing so well, the Better Business Bureau has issued an alert warning of “little Bernie Madoffs” running all around the video site Call it user-generated scamming. .
A search for “cash gifting” on YouTube brings back over 25,000 videos and, at the rate they were going last week, the videos have been viewed over 60 million times.
Google Making Changes to Search Referrals
Update: Google now says: We initially reported that Urchin Software might require a patch to handle the new URL structure, but after some additional testing, it turns out no patch is needed. Urchin can handle both the current and new URLs.
Original article: Google is changing referral URLs on results pages. What up until now has looked something like this:
YouTube Symphony Orchestra Reaches Final Stages
The YouTube Symphony Orchestra project represented a neat idea: use the Internet to have musicians from all over the world perform a single piece of music. And now it’s reaching the final and most interesting stages of development as a mashup’s been compiled and everyone’s set to perform at Carnegie Hall.
The Savvy PR Of Crocs
Living in Boulder, Colorado, I am surrounded by entrepreneurs and startups, but we don’t have a lot of national brands based in our small town. There are two that you’ve heard of, however: Celestial Seasonings and Crocs.
The former makes tea. Really good tea. The latter? They make those ubiquitous rubber shoes with the holes punched in ’em, and a whole lot more.