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diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/12.11.06/wed/fox-web-traffic.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/12.11.06/wed/fox-web-traffic.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6bce45d --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/12.11.06/wed/fox-web-traffic.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +MySpace isn't going away. New [traffic results][1] from comScore Networks, an online-traffic measuring company, put Fox's internet properties on top of Yahoo for the month of November. The primary source of Fox's increased ranking is MySpace which is owned by News Corp, also the parent company of Fox.
Is MySpace really that popular? Well maybe, but comScore says that one month at the top could be an anomaly and comScore's figures differ from those published by Nielsen, which found that Yahoo held the top spot in November, with Fox coming in at number two for overall web traffic.
The comScore figures putting Fox at number one are based on page views per site rather than unique visitors. Even comScore's numbers still put Yahoo as the web leader in unique audience, pulling in almost 130 million visitors in November while Fox trailed at a distant sixth with just under 74 million.
In what could be a decided drawback to web 2.0 technologies, some analysts say that Yahoo's increasing use of AJAX technologies for maps, e-mail and other services may have lowered their overall page views.
Because AJAX fetches data in snippets, as it's needed, rather than reloading an entirely new page, Yahoo's traffic may appear to be less than it actually is. MySpace on the other hand relies on more traditional methods of page loading.
Either way the news isn't good for Yahoo which recently restructured with a major staff reorganization in hopes the change would help Yahoo overtake longtime rival Google in the advertising realm.
Pundits have long held that there's a statistic for everything, which may well be true, but one thing's for sure, MySpace is more popular than ever.
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-12-13T024649Z_01_N12379148_RTRIDST_0_FOX-YAHOO.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna "Fox sites top Yahoo in traffic scores"
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For the most part the update catches the Firefox toolbar up to where the Google IE toolbar has already been for some time, but there's also some new things that haven't made it to the IE version yet.
The biggest thing missing from the Firefox version was the Google Bookmark menu which stores your bookmarks to your Google account so you can access them wherever you go. This feature already exists in IE, but now Firefox users can enjoy the same integration.
The other standout feature is one that hasn't made it to the IE toolbar yet. Taking a tip from [Zoho][3], The Google Toolbar for Firefox can now open certain spreadsheets and other office docs within the browser window via Google Docs and Spreadsheets. This eliminates the need to download the file first and makes browsing office documents online faster and easier.
There are also some new buttons for Google services that can be placed in the toolbar, including one for GMail, which provides tight integration with Google's popular email service. In the toolbar preferences you can check a setting to have all email links auto-open in GMail, and from the new GMail toolbar button you can snap directly to recent messages in your inbox.
There's also a new button to send links via GMail, SMS or Blogger.
Overall a very nice update that should make Firefox users happy.
[1]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/nifty-toolbar-upgrades-for-firefox_12.html "Google Toolbar for Firefox upgrade"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/zoho_announces_.html "Monkey Bites on Zoho"
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Predictive modeling is all the rage lately, we even looked at a social networking site, [Betocracy][4] built around predictive market a while back. Microsoft's new demographics search purports to predict what sort of people are searching for your terms. The tool is intended mainly for businesses looking to understand their ad markets better, but it's kind of interesting just to play around with it.
The data is drawn from the MSN Search logs for the past month and can be searched by either url or search term. Microsoft says the data is collected anonymously.
There's bunch of other cool free tools in the Microsoft adCenter Labs aimed at businesses including my personal favorite, [Keyword Mutation Detection][2], which will show you the most common misspellings for a given search term.
Another interesting one is the [Detecting Online Commercial Intention][3], which rates the level of intent to purchase for each search query. For example, someone searching for "digital camera" is probably looking to buy someone, whereas a search for "Monkey Bites" is not a "commercial" search.
Microsoft adCenter Labs has some great business tools and best of all they're free.
[1]: http://adlab.msn.com/DPUI/DPUI.aspx "MS adCenter Labs search demographics"
[2]: http://adlab.msn.com/keyMut/default.aspx "MS adCenter Labs - keyword mutation"
[3]: http://adlab.msn.com/OCI/OCI.aspx "MS adCenter Labs - detecting online commercial intention"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/betocracy_is_a_.html "Betocracy"
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* In addition to charging a new monthly fee as we mentioned in the reboot, Skype also [released version 3][1] of their Windows app today. New features include public chats, music recommendations via last.fm and more.
[1]: http://www.skype.com/download/skype/windows/ "Skype v3"
* One of Apple computer's top secret research labs flooded earlier today destroying all prototypes of the iPhone. Just kidding. About the iPhone. And the top secret lab. But an Apple building [really did flood][2].
[2]: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=4848164 "Apple Building Floods"
* The New York Times has a great [blog post][3] about Jim Buckmaster of Craigslist confounding Wall Street analysts at a recent Q and A. When asked how Craigslist maximizes revenue Buckmaster said: "That definitely is not part of the equation. It's not part of the goal."
[3]: http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/craigslist-meets-the-capitalists/ "Craigslist meet the capitalists"
* According to Wired Mag columnist Bruce Sterling, [the internet of the future][4], "will be wrapped in a Chinese kung fu outfit, intoned in an Indian accent, oozing Brazilian sex appeal." Sweet!
[4]: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.12/posts.html?pg=6 "Bruce Sterling on the future"
* And finally, the bossman extraordinaire, Chris Anderson, has a great [article on his blog][5] about what radical transparency would mean for the future of news organizations. And now that I know what that phrase, "radical transparency," means, I promise I'll never show up at the office wrapped in cellophane again. Man this stuff itches.
[5]: http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2006/12/what_would_radi_1.html "Radical Transparency"
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* Wired has a [first look][2] at the official 1.0 release of Windows Vista along with some commentary on why you might want to [hold off][3] on upgrading.
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/wiredphotos7/ "Wired photo gallery of Vista Screenshots"
[3]: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/reviews/0,72295-0.html?tw=wn_index_1 "Why You Don't need Vista Now"
* Popular photo sharing site Flickr is giving users an early holiday gift in the form of [free bandwidth upgrades][4]. Flickr accounts now get 100mb worth of uploads a month instead of 20mb, and Flickr Pro accounts no longer have an upload limit are all.
[4]: http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2006/12/ho_ho_ho_flickr.html "Flickr users get free upgrade"
* Mozilla has released the first [public beta of Thunderbird 2][5] the popular email client from the makers of Firefox. The new version features support for tags, improved filing tools, better support of extension and more. The release is intended for testing purposes only.
[5]: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/releases/2.0b1.html#download "Thunderbird Beta 1"
* Skype [rolled out][6] a new $30 annual subscription plan this morning to make unlimited calls to mobile and land phones in the U.S. This is the first unlimited calling plan for the VoIP provider, previously the service was part of free promotion.
[6]: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/13/technology/13skype.html?ex=1323666000&en=1ae098601517fc02&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss "NYTimes on Skype announcement"
* Microsoft is now [offering a security patch][7] for one of the "zero day" flaws in MS Word. The second flaw, discovered more recently, is not addressed in the security update.
[7]: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-dec.mspx "Microsoft Security pathc summary"
* Google is [planting solar trees][1]. From the Wired article: "search giant Google (is) joining other companies in planting groves of pole-mounted solar panels ... generating clean power and providing a little shade at the same time."
[1]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72292-0.html?tw=rss.index "Google and other plant solar trees"
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When is comes to beta software some offerings are really beta in name only while others are sloppy, bug-ridden nightmares better labeled alpha. The first beta release of Thunderbird falls somewhere in the middle of that spectrum. Mozilla says beta 1 is intended for developer testing only, which is probably a good guideline since not all the new features are quite stable yet.
The final release of Thunderbird 2 is slated for early next year and if the initial beta is any indication a 2.0 should be impressive.
New features in the Thunderbird beta abound. The most immediately obvious change is the GUI and icons which have been redesigned and cleaned up considerably. Clearly the Thunderbird team has been working hard to improve usability and address design issues.
But the new features aren't all fluffy and eyecandy, there's some great new tools as well.
The beta release brings support for "tagging" mail messages as means of organization. Just select a message, add a tag and Thunderbird can recall your mail according to the tags you define. Tagging is even extended to saved searches which create "smart" mail folders based on your search criteria.
The smart folder concept will be familiar if you've ever used any of Apple's iApps, but the addition of tags makes it much more customizable and more powerful.
Other new features include back and forward buttons to move through your mail browsing history just as you would in a web browser. Curiously these two buttons were not in the default toolbar, I had to go digging to find them. Hopefully in the 2.0 release they'll be enabled by default because once you use them, you'll wonder how you got by without them.
There's also a number of small additions that refine the email experience but aren't immediately obvious. The most useful of these is what the release docs, call "folder summary popups." Summary popups act like link popups in a browser, mouseover a folder with unread messages and a small summary appears with sender, subject and body snippet. It's a handy way to get a quick synopsis of a new message when you're in another folder, without having to switch views.
Other nice touches include folder views in the folder pane. It's now possible to customize the folder pane to show favorite, unread or recent folders and flip between them without effecting the other panes.
On the downside, IMAP performance in Thunderbird is still slow, though it is improved somewhat and in fairness there isn't really an email program on the market that has what I would call snappy IMAP performance. POP mail speed remains excellent and switching between folders, views and mailboxes is notable snappier.
Some of the performance boosts can probably be attributed to the beta being the first Universal Binary for Mac, I haven't tested Thunderbird on Windows or Linux.
So how beta is it? Too beta to use fulltime. There were a number of strange behaviors, lag times, hangs and crashes. However developers and others wanting to test the software and report bugs should go ahead and download a copy.
Be sure to see the [known issues list][3] on the Mozilla developer site.
The rest of us will just have to be patient, but by the looks of this early release, Thunderbird 2.0 will be worth the wait.
[1]: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/releases/2.0b1.html "Thunderbird 2.0 beta release notes"
[3]: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/releases/2.0b1.html#issues "Thunderbird 2.0 beta 1 known issues"
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