Kidz Rage !

eBizMBA’s monthly survey of traffic data for the top 25 largest web 2.0 sites ranked by a combination of Compete and Quantcast data. For each site, we show unique U.S. monthly visitor data as well as respective rank. For entries where a wide range exists between the two data sets the highest numbers were used for ranking purposes. Although no traffic metrics are completely accurate we do believe the data below to be useful for gauging relative audience size.

1 | MySpace.com
64,755,350 Unique Monthly Visitors (United States) - Rank: 7 - Compete
48,000,000 Unique Monthly Visitors (United States) - Rank: 6 - Quantcast
eBusiness News | Top 25 Largest Web 2.0 Sites | Posted 5/26/2007

2 | Wikipedia.org
45,484,126 Unique Monthly Visitors (United States) - Rank: 11 - Compete
47,000,000 Unique Monthly Visitors (United States) - Rank: 7 - Quantcast
eBusiness News | Top 25 Largest Web 2.0 Sites | Posted 5/26/2007

3 | YouTube.com
41,206,508 Unique Monthly Visitors (United States) - Rank: 12 - Compete
28,000,000 Unique Monthly Visitors (United States) - Rank: 14 - Quantcast
eBusiness News | Top 25 Largest Web 2.0 Sites | Posted 5/26/2007

4 | PhotoBucket.com
24,477,744 Unique Monthly Visitors (United States) - Rank: 17 - Compete
14,000,000 Unique Monthly Visitors (United States) - Rank: 32 - Quantcast
eBusiness News | Top 25 Largest Web 2.0 Sites | Posted 5/26/2007

5 | FaceBook.com
17,671,415 Unique Monthly Visitors (United States) - Rank: 34 - Compete
17,000,000 Unique Monthly Visitors (United States) - Rank: 15 - Quantcast
eBusiness News | Top 25 Largest Web 2.0 Sites | Posted 5/26/2007

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My friend Gill & Rob do a English / Dutch take on Shady Grove….classic, if you understand Dutch !

What a duo!

Garry K & MC $pyda @ Random Concept 2007

Download mix here

I found this interesting article on the BBC site & thought it was noteworthy and very good to know:

One in 10 web pages scrutinized by search giant Google contained malicious code that could infect a user’s PC.

Researchers from the firm surveyed billions of sites, subjecting 4.5 million pages to “in-depth analysis”.

About 450,000 were capable of launching so-called “drive-by downloads”, sites that install malicious code, such as spyware, without a user’s knowledge.

A further 700,000 pages were thought to contain code that could compromise a user’s computer, the team report.

To address the problem, the researchers say the company has “started an effort to identify all web pages on the internet that could be malicious”.

Phantom sites

Drive-by downloads are an increasingly common way to infect a computer or steal sensitive information.

They usually consist of malicious programs that automatically install when a potential victim visits a booby-trapped website.

“To entice users to install malware, adversaries employ social engineering,” wrote Google researcher Niels Provos and his colleagues in a paper titled The Ghost In The Browser.

Finding all the web-based infection vectors is a significant challenge and requires almost complete knowledge of the web
Google researchers
Hi-tech crime

Avoiding attacks

“The user is presented with links that promise access to ‘interesting’ pages with explicit pornographic content, copyrighted software or media. A common example are sites that display thumbnails to adult videos.”

The vast majority exploit vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser to install themselves.

Some downloads, such as those that alter bookmarks, install unwanted toolbars or change the start page of a browser, are an annoyance. But increasingly, criminals are using drive-bys to install keyloggers that steal login and password information.

Other pieces of malicious code hijack a computer turning it into a “bot”, a remotely controlled PC.

Drive-by downloads represent a shift away from traditional methods of infecting a computer, such as spam and email attachments.

Attack plan

As well as characterizing the scale of the problem on the net, the Google study analyzed the main methods by which criminals inject malicious code on to innocent web pages.

Spam email
Spam e-mails are a common way to infect a computer

It found that the code was often contained in those parts of the website not designed or controlled by the website owner, such as banner adverts and widgets.

Widgets are small programs that may, for example, display a calendar on a web page or a web traffic counter. These are often downloaded from third-party sites.

The rise of web 2.0 and user-generated content gave criminals other channels, or vectors, of attack, it found.

For example, postings in blogs and forums that contain links to images or other content could unwittingly infect a user.

The study also found that gangs were able to hijack web servers, effectively taking over and infecting all of the web pages hosted on the computer.

In a test, the researchers’ computer was infected with 50 different pieces of malware by visiting a web page hosted on a hijacked server.

The firm is now in the process of mapping the malware threat.

Google, part of the StopBadware coalition, already warns users if they are about to visit a potentially harmful website, displaying a message that reads “this site may harm your computer” next to the search results.

“Marking pages with a label allows users to avoid exposure to such sites and results in fewer users being infected,” the researchers wrote.

However, the task will not be easy, they say.

“Finding all the web-based infection vectors is a significant challenge and requires almost complete knowledge of the web as a whole,” they wrote.

via BBC News

mLearning, Values, & Web 2.0

Introduction to Special Issue on Highly Mobile Computing - RCET
Highly mobile digital devices have become so inexpensive and ubiquitous that they are considered part of the fabric of society; however, they are not part of the fabric of schools. While schools are holding on to oral traditions, textbooks, and learning that is linear, current learners live in a different world with different media that allow for different ways to access information

Returning to Values to Make an Impact - Leader Values
Based on research there seems to be unanimous consensus that a change in values cannot occur but the work of Emile Durkheim demonstrates how a “symptom of crisis” can lead to a loss of values. Durkheim’s work shows us how the present reality of values erosion can take place which puts leaders in a place where they need to understand how values arise.

Are You an Omnivore or Mobile Centric? - Sci-Tech Today
Web 2.0 and the Internet, cell phones and smartphones, laptops and PDAs, YouTube and Facebook — Are you the kind who can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em, or wish they were never invented? If you can’t live without ‘em, you may be what a new study from Pew Internet calls an Omnivore, a voracious user of technology that loves Web 2.0 and social networking.

The social technography of Web 2.0 - ars technica
Mac users are almost twice as likely to generate content on the web as Dell users, according to a new report by market research firm Forrester. The report, titled “Social Technographics,” identifies six different levels of social media participation on the web and breaks down the numbers between the users of two major computer brands: Apple and Dell.

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For our last trip out to Los Angeles to meet the front man of Cypress Hill, B Real…..MONSTA made this custom artpiece, which i have yet to print a copy for my office wall.

Many thanks MONSTA & keep up the great work man!

I will also soon make a proper blog entry with about 50 photos from our trip and an interesting story to go alongside

For more info on the team check out:

MONSTA

ROOR

ROOR Music

ROOR LTD

Cypress Hill

UNITED

I found this very usefull page today, covering a good question in my opinion……Web 2.0 sites get more traffic ?

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Web 2.0 sites accounted for 12% of all US Web activity for the week ended April 7, 2007, according to Hitwise’s “State of the Web 2.0: Measuring the Participatory Web” study.

That is up 2% compared with the same period two years prior.

Wikipedia is the top educational reference Web site, accounting for over 26% of the visits in a category of 3,272 sites.

The site’s largest group of readers was 18-24 year-olds, while 45-54 year-olds were the largest group who actually edited entries. About 5% of visits to Wikipedia involved editing entries, and 60% of those visitors were male.

YouTube’s demographics were somewhat similar, with the largest group of viewers being 18-24 age year-olds, while 35-44 year-olds were the largest group who uploaded videos.

The site had far fewer visitors contributing content than Wikipedia, with only 0.16% of visits involving a video upload. Over three-fourths of those who uploaded video were male.

Uploading was similar at photo-sharing site Flickr, where only 0.20% of visits involved uploading photos.

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via eMarketer