BBC News has a nice interactive chart up, showing how Internet had grown from 1998 to 2008 in various parts of the world.
Moving the slider below the charts forward into future, you can see how quickly Western Europe adopted the Internet, with over 31% of people being online in most European countries by 2008.
About one year ago Twitter reached a huge milestone: one billion tweets. Four months ago, 5 billion tweets were served. And today Twitter should reach another important milestone: 10 billion tweets.
Counting tweets is actually quite easy: just look at the URL of any tweet. The number at the end of the URL seems to be the number of that tweet, and at this moment the number of one of the latest tweets is 9962204067. If this seems like a long way to go before we reach 10 billion, check out this counter.
Article from Newsweek in 1995. It lists all the reasons the Internet will fail!?
Here we can take a look at exactly who is using the Internet the most, how they are using it and how much the amount of usage is increasing.
What would happen if you tried to print Twitter?
The folks at CreativeCloud have done the work and come up with an impressive and detailed graphic that answers the big what-if question.
Is your browser configuration rare or unique? If so, web sites may be able to track you, even if you limit or disable cookies.
Panopticlick, a research project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation tests your browser to see how unique it is based on the information it will share with sites it visits.
Imperva, a Data Security firm, announced today the release of study analyzing 32 million passwords recently exposed in the Rockyou.com breach. Imperva’s Application Defense Center (ADC) analyzed the strength of the passwords in a report, Consumer Password Worst Practices, that analyzes 32 million passwords to help consumers and website administrators identify the most commonly used passwords they should avoid when using social networking or e-commerce sites.
The report can be downloaded at: http://www.imperva.com/ld/password_report.asp
The report identifies the most commonly used passwords:
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