Is the online world as important to users as the real world? 43% Say Yes!
Is
the online world as important to users as the real world? The
2007 Digital Future Project found that 43% of Internet users who are
members of online communities say that they “feel as strongly” about
their virtual community as they do about their real-world communities, according
to the sixth annual survey of the impact of the Internet conducted by the
USC-Annenberg School Center
for the Digital Future..
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Sales
of new homes in October 2006 fell 3.2% to a seasonally adjusted annual
rate of 1,004,000, 
$24.8
billion in gift cards: The National Retail Federation survey predicts that total gift-card sales this holiday
season would reach $24.81 billion, up from $18.48 billion in 2005.
Consumer Reports survey last month reports that gift
cards would be the second-most-popular holiday gift in 2006, after
clothing. The study also found that more than 23 million Americans have
unused gift cards from last year's holidays valued at more than $972
million.>> 
The
U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 2.2% in the third quarter, compared
with 2.6% in the second quarter, according to the "preliminary"
estimates 
