Google really has the ball rolling on the controversial Google Book Search project. Reuters is reporting that 20,000 publishers have signed on over the last year, doubling the number of partners that Google has. The company has also added two new library partners over the last year bringing that number up to 29.
Online Video Viewing Doubles
The number of people watching online video through a browser has doubled over the past year, going from 32 percent a year a go to 63 percent today, according to a new ABI Research study.ABI says the growth is due to the amount of rich content available in ad-supported format on portals and via social networks, along with increasing demand from people for video in both short-and long-form online content.
Online TV Viewership Doubles
Online TV viewing has been increasing in popularity. About one- fifth of American households who use the Internet watch television online, double the number from 2006, The Conference Board and TNS said today.Being able to watch content on their own time and their own convenience are the main reasons people go online. Other reasons include skipping commercials and portability. About 72 percent of households log on for entertainment purposes daily, and in one in ten cities entertainment is the most popular Internet activity.
Traffic To Twitter Nearly Doubles In Two Months
Twitter’s been the subject of embarrassing outages, spam concerns, and serious questions about its general usefulness. None of this seems to matter much, though, as new data from Compete shows that the service is growing at an extremely impressive rate.
Hillary Traffic Doubles Obama Traffic
Okay, so I may have been wrong when I said Hillary Clinton wasn’t as popular as some gym socks. That was based on a completely unscientific straw poll of every sensible person I know. Hitwise has data, though, that suggests otherwise. Traffic to Hillary’s website after her big announcement trounced Barack Obama’s website traffic.
Japanese Cyber Suicide Nearly Doubles
It’s not so much suicide that’s causing alarm in Japan – death by one’s own hand is woven into the nation’s fabric – it’s who’s committing it and how. Just this week, nine people in two separate events were found dead in their cars after forming Internet suicide pacts, and the trend is on the rise.
blinkx Bubbles Over, Doubles Partner List
The boys and girls and blinkx said they’ve added a few new friends to their list, doubling the number of content partners and in the process, adding quite a bit of video content to their already large database.
Apple Doubles Mini Memory, Speeds Up iBooks
Three models of the Mac mini will include 512 MB of memory, with the starting price remaining at $499.
Bloglines Doubles Search Index
The importance of having a complete index should never be underestimated when it comes to search. All the relevance algorithms in the world don’t mean much if the indexes being searched aren’t the least bit comprehensive.
Gates Doubles Funding for Health
They say money can’t buy happiness, but somebody ought to be happy that Bill Gates and his Gates Foundation are putting up $250 million more in the name of global health.