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Top social networking sites in US in February 2007: MySpace.com’s audience grew just 4% in February 2008 from February 2007, whereas second-place Facebook’s more than doubled, growing 102% year over year, according to Nielsen Online. LinkedIn, meanwhile, increased its unique audience a whopping 271% year over year, reaching 7.4 mln in Feb., compared with 2.0 mln a year earlier...; Tags: Facebook, Network, Audience, MySpace, Social Networking, Microsoft Windows, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2008-03-26
Top German sites by share of international visits: International visitors contributed more than 30% of the total online audiences for RTL Group Sites, Spiegel.de, ProSiebenSat1 Sites, and ARD.de. Of the sites included in the study, RTL Group Sites had the highest proportion of international visitors, with 63% of its 14.8 mln visitors originating from outside of Germany. Spiegel.de...; Tags: Audience, NB; Blog posts 2008-02-28
10+ presentation tips to keep your audience from dozing off: If you need a little help capturing and keeping your audience's attention during presentations, these tips may help. No matter what your topic happens to be, these strategies will actively engage audience members.This download is also available as an entry in our 10 Things blog.; Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Audience, Blogging, Strategy, Internet, Management; Download resources 2008-02-12
148 mln Americans viewed Web widgets in November 2007: In November 2007, nearly 148 mln US Internet users viewed widgets, representing 81% of the total audience, according to comScore. MySpace.com widgets had the widest audience, reaching more than 57 mln Internet users, while Slide.com ranked second with 39.2 mln viewers. Widget Audience, 000 Reach in US...; Tags: Web, Internet User, Audience, MySpace, Internet, NB; Blog posts 2008-02-04
Top 10 traditional UK media brands ranked by Web traffic: The Daily Mail had the highest proportion of international visitors, with 69% of its 7.6 mln visitors originating from outside the U.K., according to comScore. The BBC attracted 59% of its audience internationally, while the Telegraph (57%) and the Guardian Media Group (56%) also drew more than half their...; Tags: Brand, Audience, Branding, Marketing, NB; Blog posts 2008-02-03

Monthly audience of newspaper Web sites in Q4 2007: Month Audience Reach, % Page Views Time Per Person Visits Per Person October 07 63,209,003 39.77 51.27 46:44 8.59 November 07 62,279,018 38.88 47.20 42:20 7.94 December 07 63,052,143 38.20 45.82 41:57 7.83 Q4 2007 Average 62,846,722 38.95 48.10 43:40...; Tags: Web, Audience, Web Site, Person, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, NB; Blog posts 2008-01-27
MouseLight (exe): Sometimes it's difficult to tell an audience to look at a particular area of the screen. Whether its for a product demo, presentation, screencast or a lecture, this problem still exists. MouseLight tries to eliminate this problem. MouseLight puts a "spotlight" around your cursor and dims the surrounding area which...; Tags: Screen, Audience, MouseLight; Software downloads 2007-10-18
Blogging Ballmer: I am attending Gartner's Mega IT Symposium this week at Disney World. 6,000 attendees are crammed into the biggest venue I have ever seen for presentations. We are awaiting the appearance of Microsoft's Steve Ballmer. I think I have enough battery power to stay on and transmit some of...; Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows Vista, Audience, Blogging, MSFT, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Richard Stiennon; Blog posts 2007-10-10
Using SAS/OR to Determine the Optimal Path to Graduation: An integer program is formulated to create the programs of study for several student scenarios. SAS/OR is used to minimize the objective function of time to graduation subject to a set of assignment and policy constraints. The program is written with SAS 9.3.1 SP3 in Windows XP. The intended audience...; Tags: SAS Institute, Audience, SAS/OR, Integer Program; White papers 2007-05-14
Trends in Training Your Extended Enterprise - Partners and Customers: With the pressures of globalization and increased competition, more companies realize the value of cost-effectively reaching these audiences and providing enhanced knowledge and learning - often training on certifications and compliance readiness. Companies find value driven by increasing partner and customer satisfaction and product usage and in many cases, decreasing...; Tags: Partnership, Compliance, Audience, Training, Business Structures, Globalization, Workforce Management, Finance, Strategy, Management, Human Resources; White papers 2007-03-26
Performance Tuning Best Practices for ESX Server 3: This paper provides a list of performance tips that cover the most performance-critical areas of Virtual Infrastructure 3 (VI3). This is not intended as a comprehensive guide for planning and configuring for the deployments. The intended audience is system administrators who have already deployed VI3 and are looking to maximize...; Tags: Performance, Audience, VMWare ESX Server, Best Practice, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2007-01-26
Tune up your targeting: Chas Edwards warns that while micro-targeting is efficient, there's also value in targeting broader audiences in terms of keeping overall revenues high and creating new demand.; Tags: Chas Edwards, Operational accounting, Revenue, Audience, Term, Finance; Sponsored whiteboards 2006-04-25
Tune Up Your Targeting: Chas Edwards warns that while micro-targeting is efficient, there's also value in targeting broader audiences in terms of keeping overall revenues high and creating new demand.; Tags: Revenue, Audience, Term, Chas Edwards, Finance, Best Practices, Operational accounting; Whiteboards 2005-06-03
Managing STM Journals: Trends in Commercial Revenues: Commercial revenues are an important component of Scientific, Technical, and Medical STM journal income. There are several sources of commercial revenue, including advertising sales (print, online and digital), commercial reprints (i.e., reprints of articles purchased in bulk by a company), and sponsored supplements. Regardless of the distribution method, commercial organizations...; Tags: Revenue, Audience, Operational Accounting, Finance; White papers 2005-06-01
Who visits online personals: According to Nielsen//NetRatings survey, the most typical visitor to online personals sites would be a male aged between 45 and 55 with yearly income above $50,000 but below $75,000. The online dating sites enjoy primarily male audience, although not by a wide margin. The survey shows that even kids aged...; Tags: personals site, Audience; Blog posts 2005-02-10
Who visits online personals: According to Nielsen//NetRatings survey, the most typical visitor to online personals sites would be a male aged between 45 and 55 with yearly income above $50,000 but below $75,000. The online dating sites enjoy primarily male audience, although not by a wide margin. The survey shows that even kids aged...; Tags: personals site, Audience; Blog posts 2005-02-10

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BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking: Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...; Tags: Software, Advertisement, Business, Online Advertising, Bookkeeping Service, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Commercialising the Semantic Web: Following an earlier post on this blog, last month I found myself moderating a panel in the final session of one of the tracks at this year's World Wide Web Conference in Beijing. As I commented via Twitter at the end of the session, "Great...; Tags: Garlik, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Gates emphasizes PC-phone connectivity in Windows 7: Improved collaboration and connectivity between Windows PCs and cell phones is going to get a major shot in the arm with Windows 7, according to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. During a speech for members of the Windows Digital Lifestyle Consortium in Tokyo last week, Gates referred...; Tags: Phone, Microsoft Windows 7, Mobile, PC, Cell Phone, Bill Gates, Gate, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-13
ReactionKineticsLive (msi): ReactionKineticsLive is a chemical kinetics visualization software for teachers, researchers and students. Real-time simulations, interactive animations help to gain insight into chemical kinetics and provide an exciting and memorable experience. Define the reaction system in a visual way: the rate equations and the reaction kinetics will change automatically and instantly....; Tags: Animation, Teacher, Flextron, ReactionKineticsLive; Software downloads 2008-05-13