According to The Nielsen Company, global* consumers spent more than five and half hours on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in December 2009, an 82% increase from the same time last year when users were spending just over three hours on social networking sites. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009, Blog, Facebook, instant messaging, online, site, social media, social network, Twitter, users

Russia Internet search engine “Yandex” named the most popular search topic in 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009, Microsoft, Moscow, New Year, online, popular, query, ranking, request, search engine, social networking, top ten, TV, Windows, Yandex

Lodgings advertising banners in runet in 2010 will be cheaper, writes Kommersant. “Yandex” has lowered prices on 25-31,5 percent, and Mail.ru – 17 per cent. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009, advertising, banners, internet, mail.ru, market, Rambler Media, RuNet, russia, Yandex

Facebook saw the number of visitors more than double in November 2009 compared to the same month in 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

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It was a big year for technology: Twitter and Facebook’s popularity exploded, while new smartphones, e-readers and a host of other gadgets cropped up to compete for our plugged-in affection. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009, account, attack, Blog, company, computer, Conficker, e-mail, Facebook, fails, Gmail, Google, Google Wave, hacker, information, internet, iPhone, iPod, LiveJournal, Mashable, Media, member, Microsoft, online, service, site, smartphone, social media, TechCrunch, technology, Twitter, users, Web, worldwide, Zune

Eat your heart out H1N1, gatecrashers and Aretha’s hat. According to Global Language Monitor — an algorithms company who used their Predictive Quantities Indicator to find their results — “Twitter” is the most-used word of 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009, Barack Obama, Media, social network, Twitter, word

SEO-DNS and friends participated in the summer of survival and adventure hike OSAJI TROPHY 2009th. 80km in two days, on foot, along the sea! Start – Ventspils, end – Pāvilosta. If do not believe, just look at the map! tkj6mf4idn

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Tags: 2009, adventure, Flickr, Friends, sea, SEO