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Free Wifi and Toolbars are Used to Monitor the Pages you Visit
If your browser sports a toolbar (e.g., from Yahoo, Google, MyWebSearch, …), you are using Google’s Chrome browser or the free WiFi that they offer in Airports an planes, somebody is gathering data on the pages you visit, how long you stay on them, and what else you do online. This is the sometimes shocking [...]
Search Results: 65% of Users’ Attention goes on First Three
According to a 2004 eye/click tracking study (Eye-tracking analysis of user behavior in WWW search) done at Cornell University on Google results page, users spend about 50% of the time on the page reading the snippet of the first and second results, and 14% to read the third one. Here is the percentage of time [...]
Great Pictures: Elena Kalis, Alice in Waterland
I never heard of Elena Kalis before today, but I think she did a great job in her photographic project Alice in Waterland. Below you will find some of the pictures I liked the most. What do you think? Pretty impressive, uh?
Twitter receives 26M tweets per day, 22% are URLs
In October 2009 Twitter received on average 25.9 Million tweets per day, 22.3% of which contained links. Twitter’s growth was exponential since late 2008 but recently seems to have slowed down.
