Kidz Rage !

As you all should be aware of, there seems to be a new buzz going around my work about this website called LinkedIn ! Its a great site for entrepreneurs, business people on all levels in my opinion.

Check my profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/fostere

or

I would advise anyone to get an account!

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

For Complete List Go to Here

via IndoDX

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.

Via Musings from Mars.

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

Many people are locked into cell phone contracts with unsatisfactory service and no way out.According to the US Public Interest Research Group, nearly half of all US cellular phone customers would switch, or consider switching, their current service carrier if they did not have to pay an early termination penalty of up to $240.

Features

• Cellswapper.com has developed a social network for the exchange of cell phone plans and phones.
• CellSwapper.com transfers the remainder of a contract to another interested party. It is a win-win situation, as unsatisfied customer gets out of their unwanted contact and the assuming party gets a free, short-term contract – as low as 1 month – without having to pay the hefty activation fee usually incurred with a new service plan.
• Most short term contracts come bundled with a free phone or cash incentive that is offered as an incentive by the seller.
• Free posting of plans/contracts.
• CellSwapper has developed Transfer Tracking™ technology to keep all parties up to date with the contract transfer.
• Consumers become free to change their cell phone plans as often as they wish!

The Apple iPhone

• Since the Apple iPhone is a Cingular exclusive, anybody who wants to buy one will need to first become cell phone contract-free. In that sense, for many consumers CellSwapper will serve as perhaps the only means of getting an iPhone.

Dion Hinchcliffe, in a blog post over at ZDNet, talks about the increasing business value of ‘Mashup’ projects. Some of these, he believes, may soon or already be ready for use in an enterprise environment. He demonstrates one of these upcoming projects, showing off IBM’s QEDWiki in a Flash demonstration. The software allows users to create their own mashups from canned widgets, turning data into simple applications with fairly straightforward functionality.

From the article: “The motivations for mashups are quite different inside of organizations, where application backlogs and demand for more software that will improve collaboration and productivity are often rampant. If this state of affairs is true, far from having too much software, most enterprises don’t have enough to satisfy demand, despite the prevalence of mountains of existing enterprise systems, many of which are underutilized. The arguments for letting users self-service themselves with end-user application tools and getting IT out of the critical path for the backlog of simpler applications are extensive.”

How important do you think ‘self-made’ software will be in the future?