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  Web users spend half their time visiting content 

  http://www.online-publishers.org/?pg=press&dt=081307

  Web Users Now Spend Half Their Time Visiting Content, Far Outpacing Time Spent with Search, Communications and Commerce Four-Year Analysis of Online Publishers Association Internet Activity Index Shows ... Sustained Growth for Online Content ( view press release ) Frames of Reference: Online Video Advertising, Content and Consumer Behavior Consumers More Likely to Act on Video Ads Viewed on Media Sites, According to Online Publishers Association Study ( view research )   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 13 September 2007, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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  Tags:  growth, internet, internet usage, online content, web

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  Microformats: Toward a Semantic Web 

  http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3701096

  September 21, 2007 Microformats: Toward a Semantic Web By Sean Michael Kerner In the beginning of the Internet revolution, being connected was all about the simple hyperlink. Like magic with one click ... a Web browser could be transported anywhere on the Internet that content lives. But what about context? What about connecting related information and content in a semantic context? The hyperlink of the early era isn't enough. Enter Microformats , which offer the promise of helping Web content owners enable users to connect the disparate dots that connect content in a semantic way. To be more precise and borrowing from the official Microformats.org definition, "Microformats are small bits of HTML that represent things like people, events, tags, etc. in Web pages." Though the term "microformats" may not yet be mainstream, mainstream vendors have taken notice. Big names like Technorati, Mozilla, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Digg, and Yahoo among countless others are all at work trying to make   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 24 September 2007, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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  Wikis, the Semantic Web head to the streets | InfoWorld 

  http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/09/17/Wikis-Semantic-Web-head-to-streets_1.html

  Wikis, the Semantic Web head to the streets Wiki technology takes real-time, user-generated data from mobile phones to create maps for pedestrians and other travelers making their way across a city While ... drivers are accustomed to using traffic reports to assess road conditions, pedestrians who navigate cities are typically left without aid to determine the best route. But researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology using wikis and the Semantic Web look to change the way people map and navigate their cities. The Wiki City project, run by MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory , aims to apply wiki technology to the mapmaking process. The project's ultimate product will permit anyone to upload content to a map and utilize Semantic Web principles to cross search multiple layers of information. Wiki City Rome , an early incarnation of the project's user-generated maps, used GPS and cell phone data to produce a real-time map during an all-night festival held in the city on Sept. 8. A   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 18 September 2007, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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  Google PageRank Checker - Check Google page rank of any web pages 

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  Please enter a Valid URL above and click Check PR button to determine a page rank. Add Page Rank Checker Icon to a web site for free If you like this free PR checking tool and would like to see our Page ... Rank Checker icon that displays the current page rank of the pages on your web site, please copy one of the HTML codes below and paste it on your page where you want the page rank icon to appear: Disclaimer : Google search engine and PageRank algorithm are the trademarks of Google Inc. PRChecker.info is not affiliated with Google Inc., but only provides a publically available information about pagerank values of the web sites. PRChecker.info provides our services on "as is" and "as available" basis and we do not provide any guarantees regarding this service stability and/or availability.   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 25 October 2007, by: David Bacon  [Report as spam]

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  Writing for the Web: Table of Contents 

  http://www.sun.com/980713/webwriting/index.html

  Writing for the Web by Jakob Nielsen , distinguished engineer; PJ Schemenaur, technical editor; and Jonathan Fox, editor-in-chief, www.sun.com You can double the usability of your web site by following ... these guidelines: for two sample sites studied in Sun's Science Office, we improved measured usability by 159% and 124% by rewriting the content according to the guidelines. Writing for the Web is very different from writing for print : 79% of users scan the page instead of reading word-for-word Reading from computer screens is 25% slower than from paper Web content should have 50% of the word count of its paper equivalent Table of Contents Limit scrolling; use simple sentence structure; avoid cute headlines; update facts frequently. Working With a Designer: Combine page templates with professional artwork. Scannability: Highlight keywords; use bulleted lists; start with the conclusion. Navigation: Move detailed info to secondary pages. Writing to Be Read: Headlines and subheads; lists,   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 14 November 2007, by: Jakub Uradnik  [Report as spam]

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  Overbrook Foundation Report on Web 2.0 [pdf]

  http://www.overbrook.org/resources/opn/pdf/Overbrook_Foundation_Web2point0_Report.pdf

  First added: 13 September 2007, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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  InfoWorld: Trust key to Internet security 

  http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/09/14/37OPsecadvise-five-rings-security-authentication_1.html

  A few of my previous columns discussed my vision of creating a more secure Internet. It involved replacing the Internet's default anonymity with pervasive authentication , from the hardware initialization, ... through the OS and all applications, the user, and ending with a verifiable network stream. It is my strong belief that without a complete overhaul of default authentication, malicious hacking is going to continue indefinitely. And as expected, several readers complained about the obvious invasion of privacy my plan would entail; it's a duality I wrestle with as well. But an even bigger obstacle is the need to upgrade and replace nearly every involved software and hardware component. The computer world's normal evolutionary growth patterns don't fit nicely into my revolutionary changes. Few can afford to throw away the old and buy all new, much less have that occur across the globe all at once. It pretty much guarantees that my idea will never see the light of day … at least not for   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 15 September 2007, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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  The Entrepreneur's Guide to Web 2.0: Top 25 Apps to Grow your Business 

  http://www.avivadirectory.com/entrepreneur-apps/

  The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Web 2.0: Top 25 Apps to Grow your Business Are you doing a good job meeting the needs of your small business? Keeping a good handle on finances? Networking? Do you have a system ... for organizing your marketing strategy? Do you even have a marketing strategy? If you are running a small business, you know that to be successful you need to be a jack-of-all-trades. The smart way to manage everything from company finances, to client relations, to marketing, is to use the right tools – tools that are simple enough that they won’t require you to spend a lot of time and money you don’t have setting them up. In this guide we cover the 25 best web2.0 applications for entrepreneurs who are looking for simple, cheap, and effective solutions to solving some of the tasks facing their small business or startup. The 25 applications selected were chosen both on the basis of their usefulness for the individual small business manager as well as their effectiveness in providin   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 20 September 2007, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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  iMedia Connection: Asian markets are driving the 3D web 

  http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/17265.asp

  Challenges abound in the highly complex virtual world transactions where open technical standards are key if its business benefits are to be realised. Asia's virtual world platform operators are seen to ... be playing a central role here. Amid all of the excitement around the potential of virtual worlds we've seen this year, one historic analogy has become increasingly unavoidable: what Compuserve and AOL were to the 2D web of the 1990s, Second Life, There.com and other "walled-garden" virtual worlds are to the emerging 3D web of the 21st century. As we saw with the 2D web, the key to realising the business and social benefits of its three-dimensional descendant will be in establishing widely-accepted and open technical standards, a process in which Asian players are playing an emerging central role. While Linden Lab's Second Life, Makena's There.com and other contenders vie for standards dominance in North American and European markets, some Asian virtual world players are taking a proact   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 13 November 2007, by: Kim Letchford  [Report as spam]

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  Tags:  digital business, web, 3d, asia, asian , markets, web 2.0, second life, standards, virtual worlds   [More...] [Less...]

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  PC World - The 10 Biggest Web Annoyances 

  http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,138872/printable.html

  The 10 Biggest Web Annoyances The new, improved Web won't deserve that name until sites make clear what they do with your private data. And online tech support gets a lot better. And... Ryan Naraine In ... its relatively short life, the World Wide Web has already made many of our most mundane, tedious tasks quicker and easier to perform. But there are still a surprising number of activities--from helping us buy concert tickets to protecting our privacy--that, for one reason or another, the Web still can't get right, stirring the ire of even the most patient users. We look at ten of the worst of them. Beyond obvious, nagging problems such as e-mail spam, phishing lures, viruses, and spyware, a great many commonplace online frustrations--some dating all the way back to the earliest days of the Web--remain unfixed. We asked visitors at our online forums to identify what they consider the most dysfunctional aspects of the Web; then . For each difficulty, we identified an "aggravation factor"--   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 30 October 2007, by: Nik Petrovic  [Report as spam]

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