Internet

Playing Chatroulette

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B&P reader Alex Roda plays a little Chatroulette with some strangers.  Chatroulette is a brand new service for one-on-one text, webcam and microphone-based chat with people around the world.  Interesting adventure.  Good work Alex.

Thanks Greg

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Tweeting shoes

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Nike-plusNo, I don’t mean that weird squeak shoes sometimes make when your walking, I mean your shoes are Tweeting on Twitter.

Probably the most mainstream of the techie shoes, Nike+ has been around for a while. Its earliest incarnations were all about iPod connectivity, but the latest generation of Nike+ — of which the Nike Zoom Vomero+ 4 (above) is a happy poster boy — not only tracks your fitness data once a Nike+ sensor is inserted, but can automatically make Facebook updates and Tweet your status out. It even has its own social network. The shoes cost $135; a standalone sensor costs $19.

More web-equipped shoes

Thanks Glenn D

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Internet stats

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Here are a few internet statistics compiled at pingdom.com

Websites

  • 234 million – The number of websites as of December 2009.
  • 47 million – Added websites in 2009.

Internet users

  • 1.73 billion – Internet users worldwide (September 2009).
  • 18% – Increase in Internet users since the previous year.
  • 738,257,230 – Internet users in Asia.
  • 418,029,796 – Internet users in Europe.
  • 252,908,000 – Internet users in North America.
  • 179,031,479 – Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.
  • 67,371,700 – Internet users in Africa.
  • 57,425,046 – Internet users in the Middle East.
  • 20,970,490 – Internet users in Oceania / Australia.

Social media

  • 126 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).
  • 84% – Percent of social network sites with more women than men.
  • 27.3 million – Number of tweets on Twitter per day (November, 2009)
  • 57% – Percentage of Twitter’s user base located in the United States.
  • 4.25 million – People following @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher, Twitter’s most followed user).
  • 350 million – People on Facebook.
  • 50% – Percentage of Facebook users that log in every day.
  • 500,000 – The number of active Facebook applications.

Images

  • 4 billion – Photos hosted by Flickr (October 2009).
  • 2.5 billion – Photos uploaded each month to Facebook.
  • 30 billion – At the current rate, the number of photos uploaded to Facebook per year.

Videos

  • 1 billion – The total number of videos YouTube serves in one day.
  • 12.2 billion – Videos viewed per month on YouTube in the US (November 2009).
  • 924 million – Videos viewed per month on Hulu in the US (November 2009).
  • 182 – The number of online videos the average Internet user watches in a month (USA).
  • 82% – Percentage of Internet users that view videos online (USA).
  • 39.4% – YouTube online video market share (USA).
  • 81.9% – Percentage of embedded videos on blogs that are YouTube videos.

More interesting internet statistics

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