So what happened with the Internet in 2011? How many email accounts were there in the world in 2011? How many websites? How much did the most expensive domain name cost? How many photos were hosted on Facebook? How many videos were viewed to YouTube?
We’ve got answers to these questions and many more. A veritable smorgasbord of numbers, statistics and data lies in front of you. Using a variety of sources we’ve compiled what we think are some of the more interesting numbers that describe the Internet in 2011.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook and Tony Bates, CEO of Skype in a joint product announcement launched Facebook video chat. Facebook and Skype both joined hands together and started up the web video calling feature. Facebook in the past has already joined hands with Microsoft to have Bing search into facebook and vise versa.
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One-sided conversations are seldom interesting. Why? Because nobody wants to listen to some guy ramble on about his high school football days or his new sports car. They want to have a conversation.
Placebook is site that takes a different approach by presenting broader information about your friends as a set of gorgeous graphs. According to it Kuwait's 17% population uses facebook.
The site was created by map has been created by two students at a university in the Czech Republic for a Web mapping competition. Logged out, the site displays information about the Facebook population as a whole broken down by country. Collected in August last year, the data’s a little out of date, but when you’re logged in you get data tailored to your own social graph.
Today, LinkedIn reached a major milestone: 100 million professionals worldwide. I wonder how many are in Kuwait.
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A 10-minute video reportage about Mikko Hypponen's trip to Lahore, Pakistan, to find the authors of the first PC virus "Brain". This is the first time Amjad Farooq Alvi and Basit Farooq Alvi have given a video interview about the virus, which spread around the world via floppy disks in 1986.
IKEA is the world's largest furniture retailer. The company originated in Sweden and has now moved to the Netherlands. They designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, appliances and home accessories.
Like many of the world's leading companies, they use Joomla. Ikea's websites for Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are both built in Joomla.
Blogetery, a Wordpress platform, has seen its entire community shut down by its host, BurstNET. Subsequent statements by BurstNET indicated that the service was suspended at the request of an unidentified law enforcement agency.
"(Blogetery) was terminated by request of law enforcement officials, due to material hosted on the server. We are limited as to the details we can provide to you, but note that this was a critical matter and the only available option to us was to immediately deactivate the server."
Social media management company Vitrue has released a free tool today, the Social Page Evaluator, designed to help marketers get a better understanding of a Facebook Page’s value.
By submitting Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah Fan Page (WebonClicks maintained facebook page for Pakistan) the results were quite professional in terms evaluation and comparsion with other facebook page. By just submitting a Facebook Page URL valuation based on factors like number of fans, number of posts per day, number of interactions and so forth will appear instantly.
Kuwait is rapidly focusing on its e-governance. A very important website which contains fine details about Kuwait is E.GOV.KW. Recently they have been implementing e-commerce facilitated by K-Net, a third part e-payment gateway. A recent development in e-commerce, is the website of Ministry of Communication which was not functional from last three or four years. Although, Kuwait have high rates of internet users but still they are far behind from other gulf progressing countries as UAE, KSA & Qatar. Few are the list of Kuwait's official websites.
Interesting & funny video about Google buzz, you have to watch it folks.
Kuwait Windows Users of Windows 7 RC & holder of non-genuine have been getting warnings for the past few weeks to upgrade their operating system due to the release candidate version expiring. Microsoft also blocked several illegal patches which made Window 7 genuine. The final date has now hit and if you are running Windows 7 RC then you are probably seeing your computer reboot every 2 hours leaving all open documents unsaved and perhaps being quite annoying at the same time.
If you feel you can live with the bi-hourly shut downs then go ahead and carry on using it although on June 1, the wallpaper will also be changed to say “this copy of Windows is not genuine”. At this point you will be unable to download updates as Windows Update doesn’t function with non genuine copies of the software.
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