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Google Adds Website Traffic Comparison to Trends

Google has decided to jump into the Web Traffic comparison business by releasing a new layer to Google Trends names Google Trends for Websites.
Very few people these days take the data from publicly available website traffic comparison tools like Alexa and Compete too seriously. At best, both can be used to analyze trends, as their [...]


The Tubes Are Still Clogged

Update: I’m just reading the actual bill and while the pdf of the bill doesn’t allow copy-and-paste, you can find the language about the whois on page 10. Basically, a domain registrar is not allowed to shield, mask, block, or otherwise restrict access to the registrants name, phone and fax number, physical address and email [...]


Books and the Web

Tomorrow is going to be a pretty big day for books and the web. HarperCollins is going to start giving away a number of free books online and RandomHouse is going to start selling books by the chapter – or at least the chapters of one book, for now.
All of this also comes after [...]


Kids don’t know s&*t about computers

(via Ars) According to a report by the British Library and the Joint Information Systems Committee, kids aren’t very good at finding information on the net, even though popular opinion seems to say quite the opposite.
From Ars:
A new UK report on the habits of the “Google Generation” finds that kids born since 1993 aren’t quite [...]


1&1 and Digg Don’t Mix

Very frustrating weekend after I had a story on the digg homepage on Thursday afternoon. My hosting company, 1&1 couldn’t handle the traffic and the sys admins changed my .htaccess file to point to 127.0.0.1 for all my domains, effectively wiping me off the internet and barring me access to the .htaccess file so that [...]


Class Divisions between Facebook and Myspace

Danah Boyd argues that there is a statistically relevant socio-economic divide between Facebook and MySpace users:
The goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or other “good” kids are now going to Facebook. These kids tend to come from families who emphasize education and going to college. They are part of what we’d call hegemonic society. They are [...]