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

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 »

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Currently ranking the popularity of 3,783,534 websites by parsing 302,023,552 blog posts from 5,948,937 blog feeds. Read the rest of this entry »

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Search engine Yandex has decided to close the top popular blog posts. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Blog, Blog Search, bloggers, blogosphere, Entries, link, Media, post, rating, RuNet, search engine, top, users, Yandex

The scale of a phishing attack originally thought to be directed at Hotmail may be larger than previously thought. Read the rest of this entry »

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The system of contextual advertising “Begun” reached an agreement with Yahoo! Read the rest of this entry »

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