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Archive for April, 2010

Social Networking: Men vs. Women

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

I get tired of all of the articles that talk about the difference between men and women.  We know; we’re different.
 
 
One of the places where those differences show up is in social networking sites.
Here’s some stats regarding use of Facebook by the sexes.
 

Facebook attracts 46 million more women than men per month and is 57% [...]

How to Find Your Census Tract

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

2010 is a census year for the US government.  Here’s how to find what census tract you live in.
 
 
1.  Go to the US Census web site at www.census.gov.
2.  Click on “American Fact Finder” on the home page.
3.  Hit street address link.
4.  Enter street address.
5.  Get results

Internet Advertising Fares Better than Most

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Internet advertising suffered its worst year since 2002 when the dot com bubble burst, but it’s still not as bad as what traditional media like radio and newspapers suffered.
Internet advertising in the fourth quarter, 2009, showed an increase of 2.6% over fourth quarter, 2008, according to a recent study from PriceWaterhouse.
Overall internet advertising, however, was [...]

How to Get an Email When you Receive a Direct Message on Twitter

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

You can be notified when you receive a direct message on Twitter.  Here’s how to set this up.
1.  Log into your Twitter account.
2.  Click on Settings
3.  Check the box that says “Direct Text Emails”.

BING Soars

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

It’s more good news for BING.
Neilsen reports that the market share for BING has increased to 12.5% which is an all-time high for the search engine.  Meanwhile, Google has shown two consecutive months of falling market share.

Google - 65.2%
Yahoo! - 14.1
BING - 12.5
AOL - 2.3
Ask - 1.9
My Web Search - 1.0
Comcast - 0.6
Yellow Pages - [...]

Online Advertising More for Branding

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

It used to be all about the click throughs.
But, no longer.  It seems like today, internet surfers simply ignore banner ads. 
We’ve certainly found this to be the case at Olympic Internet.  Gone are the days when you could get a nice return from a Commission Junction banner ad on a CPA basis.  While more people [...]

IPv4 CIDR Down to Less than 10% Left

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

 
With less than 10% of IPv4 address space remaining, organizations must adopt IPv6 to support applications that require ongoing availability of contiguous IP addresses, says the American Registry for Internet Numbers which appeared at the recent CTIA Show in Las Vegas.
Internet Protocol defines how computers communicate over a network. IP version 4 (IPv4), the currently [...]