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Online Snooping Gets Creepy, By Anita Hamilton: “…An estimated 30% of all Web searches are aimed at finding people, according to industry statistics, and upstarts like PeekYou, Pipl, Spock, and Wink are vying for a piece of this potentially huge market. These free sites work by scouring the Web for any virtual footprints you might …
“The European Audiovisual Observatory has made available the videos of the conference it organised jointly with the Media Center at New York Law School last September which focused on The Future of Broadband Video – A US- European Comparative Analysis. This was the first time that the Observatory, the Council of Europe’s audiovisual information collection …
“Pew Internet today released a new commentary that analyzes existing gaps in home broadband adoption among Americans. The commentary suggests where stakeholders in the broadband debate might take aim if they want to do something to encourage those lacking broadband access to get off the digital sidelines.”
Press release: “The role of the Internet in politics has grown with such speed and scope that it is well on its way to becoming the dominant media force in political campaigning, according to the director of the most comprehensive study of the impact of the online technology on America…The Center for the Digital Future …
comScore press release: “The average Latin American Internet user spent 29 hours online during the month [of June 2007] more than the global average of 25 hours.”
Press release: “The growing adoption of broadband combined with a dramatic push by content providers to promote online video has helped to pave the way for mainstream audiences to embrace online video viewing. Fifty-seven percent of online adults have used the internet to watch or download video, and 19% do so on a typical day. …
Press release: “More than 59 million people (37.3 percent of all active Internet users) visited newspaper Web sites on average during the second quarter of 2007, a record number that represents a 7.7 percent increase over the same period a year ago, according to custom analysis provided by Nielsen//NetRatings for the Newspaper Association of America. …
Press release: “Expanding on its ongoing work to help protect customer privacy, Microsoft Corp. today announced an enhanced set of privacy principles for Live Search and online advertising data collection, use and protection. The principles outline new, enhanced steps to help protect the privacy of Microsoft® Windows Live users, including making search query data anonymous …
Posted on July 19, 2007, By Erin Teeling in Newspaper Study, Bivings, Research (TBG): “We have recently completed the 2007 study of Americas top 100 newspaper websites, entitled American Newspapers and the Internet; Threat or Opportunity? As the newspaper industry continues to suffer declines in readership and circulation, using the Internet to expand a newspapers …
Press release: “The Pew Internet & American Life Project has released a new report on China’s internet user population. There are now an estimated 137 million internet users in China, second in number only to the United States, where estimates of the current internet population range from 165 million to 210 million. The growth rate …
“Open-source politics is the idea that social networking and participatory technologies will revolutionize our ability to follow, support, and influence political campaigns. Forget party bosses in smoky backroomsnetroots evangelists and web consultants predict a wave of popular democracy as fundraisers meet on MySpace, YouTubers crank out attack ads, bloggers do oppo research, and cell-phone-activated flash …
Follow up to June 20, 2007 posting, Microsoft Complies With Vista Browser Choice Option, see Microsoft’s Memorandum in Opposition to Google’s Motion for Leave to Participate as Amicus Curiae – July 3, 2007
