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Media
and entertainment executives see the growing ability and eagerness of
individuals to create their own content as one of the biggest threats to
their business, according
to a recent Accenture survey.
The US online dating market will reach $932 million in 2011,
according to a latest report from JupiterResearch. The number of paying
customers to U.S. dating sites
has stayed steady at around 5% of Internet users in the five years of
the annual survey by JupiterResearch.
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A
survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project has found that 28%
of internet users in have tagged or categorized content online such as
photos, news stories or blog posts, . On a typical day online, 7% of
internet users say they tag or categorize online content.
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U.S. Top 10 Online Newspapers and their Blog Pages - Unique Audience |
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Roll-Up |
UA (000) Dec-05 |
UA (000) Dec-06 |
Year-Over-Year Growth |
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Top 10 Online Newspapers |
27,371 |
29,940 |
9% |
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Blog Pages within Online Newspapers |
1,217 |
3,776 |
210% |
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55% of all online American teens ages 12-17 use online social networking
sites, according to a new survey of teenagers conducted by the Pew
Internet & American Life Project. The survey also finds that older
teens, particularly girls, are more likely to use these sites.
What
do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Which is more
dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? How much do parents really matter? Freakonomics
has become a wildly popular book as it created a new field of study
concerning these and many other, mostly freakish, issues.
The
term "Wikipedia" was cited in blogs nearly 29,000 times in
November 2006, up 54% from 2005. In addition, the use of highly indicative
phrases - "according to wikipedia" OR "wikipedia says"
OR "says wikipedia" - rose 200% versus last year, according
to Nielsen BuzzMetrics
Google
Answers was recently folded, but there are still quite a few Q&A sites on
the web. Wade Roush at MIT Technology Review conducted a test recently to
evaluate and rank prominent sites including Yahoo
Answers, Microsoft's Live QnA, AnswerBag,
Yedda, Wondir,
and Amazon's new Askville
(via SearchEngineLand).
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