Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

Google updates sitelinks

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

In a recent blog post Google unveiled their ‘expanded and improved’ sitelinks. For those who don’t know what sitelinks are, that’s what they looked loke before:

sitelinks

Google’s blog post says: ‘Sitelinks help you quickly navigate to the most relevant part of the site, which is particularly handy for large and complex websites. Sitelinks can also give you a good overview of a website’s content, and let webmasters expose areas of the site that visitors may not know about’.

Understanding the value of sitelinks, Google’s specialists has always paid attention to improving them. At first sitelinks had been rearrenged into columns, then their number was doubled and sitelinks started showing for more results.

Now we’re dealing with further improvements. (more…)

Good news: Spam Decreased 82.22% Over The Past Year

Monday, July 4th, 2011

Today we receive much less junk mail than one year ago – check out the Graph of spam volume (global estimated spam sent, billions of messages per day) from 15th June 2010 to 14th June 2011.

spam activity

spam activity

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Mobile apps are more popular than web?

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

Surveys show that customers tend to spend more time using mobile apps that accessing Internet via traditional PCs and laptops.

According to Mary Meeker, KPCB, in 2011 smartphone and tablet shipments exceed those of desktop and notebook shipments. An interesting report by Flurry shows that for the time ever, daily time spent in mobile apps is 9% and currently makes 81 minutes versus the average of 74 minutes of using Internet on desktops and laptops. What’s even more interesting that it took only three years to achieve such great level of usage. The main drivers of the process were iOS and Android-based devices. That’s what we have:

mobileapp_vs_web_consumption

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Is there a social media bubble? (INFOGRAPHIC)

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011
social media valuations

social media valuations

The latest IPOs of social media companies and the record voluations they got for many industry experts remind situation with .coms in 1999.

Social media site G+, a community of professionals, entrepreneurs and academics, created this wonderful infographic with figures from main social media resources. Are we really witnessing inflation of the new big bubble? Time will tell.

And now let’s enjoy the infographic > (more…)

77% clients of IT outsourcing claim to be overcharged. How to be among the happy 23%?

Monday, May 16th, 2011
IT outsourcing is about trust

IT outsourcing is about trust

Security software developer Lieberman software released an interesting research on IT outsourcing company’s client’s satisfaction. It’s not a secret that the main motive for delegating some part or even all IT tasks to an outsourcer is economy of resources, and especially - opportunities for cost reduction. And the survey showed that a surprising 77% of respondents believe that their outsourcers have made up work to earn extra money.

Only 38% respondents claimed that outsourcers had met the cost-saving projections mapped out in contracts. 27%  said the deals cost “significantly more than planned,” compared to 11% who said outsourcing actually saved more money than their companies expected. But the huge 77% distrust is really surprising.

Why could this happen? (more…)

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