Tis the season for metrics. The companies that keep tabs on the Internet have released a flurry of statistics over the past couple of weeks, all of them with the same conclusion: e-commerce is growing still. Nielsen//NetRatings’ Holiday eShopping index put on a few pounds, expanding by 20 percent year-over-year.
Looking Around AskCity
If you took a walk around AskCity, what would you expect to find? What have other people been looking for while they were here? Thanks to Ask.com blog, we now know the answers to these questions.
Python Coils Around 2.5 Release
The latest major version of the Python programming language recently arrived online from the Python Software Foundation.
Running Searchles Around Web 2.0
Dumbfind.com founder Chris Seline isn’t above making up silly words to promote his new products. Seline dumbfound that “searchiness” was appropriate for his “searchiest search engine,” and recently launched a search/social bookmarking hybrid he calls “Searchles.”
Googlers Rally Around Testosterone
Google’s weekly look into the “moral and intellectual trends” of the searching populace, Google Zeitgeist, revealed that Google users have “an insatiable appetite for all things flashy and sordid.”
Walking Around Web 2.0 With Itzle
An interesting take on Web 2.0, Itzle is weird, but creative. What’s an itzle? It’s a bookmarklet that puts users physically inside websites and allows them to chat with others itzling the same page.
Olympics End But Flash Hangs Around
Though much of the US Olympic performance left sports fans disappointed, the Olympic website has enjoyed a gold medal showing with the use of Flash throughout it.
Search Around The Globe
The likes of Yahoo, Google, and MSN dominate search around the world, and a session at SES Chicago gives some insight on how publishers can take a shot at being more of a search presence globally.
Communicators Still Tiptoeing Around Blogs
Though professional communicators are aware of the weblog boom, the majority still seem reluctant to embrace the medium amid fears of the inherent lack of control of information that comes with it, according to a recent poll.
Music From Around the World At the Smithsonian
Tired of the same old stuff on the radio or on the net? Annoyed that most of what you listen is decided by a handful of companies who control the record labels and another handful that control the radio stations? The Smithsonian has a solution for you. They have thousands upon thousands of downloads from all over the planet.