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From An eMarketer Article: As Facebook continues to solidify its role as the world’s top social networking site, eMarketer estimates that more than half of internet users in the US were logging on to the site at least monthly as of the end of 2010. This year, eMarketer forecasts, 132.5 million US web users will […]
From a Search Engine Land Blog Post by Barry Schwartz: Today, Bing has announced that Facebook Likes will be more tightly integrated. Now, if the regular search results displayed are also liked by one of your Facebook friends, that will be shown. Keep in mind, the search results themselves are not changing in order based […]
Update: Here’s a Complete List of the New Words (With Definitions) From an Article Appearing in The Telegraph: Gabby Fletcher, a spokeswoman for Oxford Dictionaries Online, said: “The rapid development of technology creates multiple new products, services, and functionalities, which all need new terms to describe them. “We are also seeing the very fast circulation […]
The Government Printing Office is expanding the number of historic documents you can access online. They’re partnering with the Library of Congress to digitize all sorts of records, some dating to the 1800s. This includes official congressional debates and laws like the Freedom of Information Act. Mary Alice Baish, GPO’s Superintendent of Documents, explains the […]
The 112th Congress: By the Numbers Now that we’re two months into the 112th U.S. Congress, how well do you really know your Congress? Do you know them as well as your local professional basketball or baseball team? What follows is a statistical breakdown of the 112th Congress, as compiled by the Congressional Research Service, […]
Release of New WISQARS Cost of Injury Reports CDC’s Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) is a leading source of injury statistics in the United States. WISQARS is an interactive, web-based query system that provides data on injury deaths, violent deaths, and nonfatal injuries. CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) […]
Canada: Television Archives: TVO Launches Digital Public Archive Online
Archives and Special Collections, Interviews, News, Podcasts
|TVO, public/educational television from Ontario, has just launched a new online video archive with material their first 40 years of broadcasting. At the present time the archive ncludes over 325 programs and segments with more to come. You can keyword search for shows or browse collections or the most viewed programs, programs new to the […]
From a Blog Post by Peter Mika: The data shows that the usage of RDFa has increased 510% between March, 2009 and October, 2010, from 0.6% of webpages to 3.6% of webpages (or 430 million webpages in our sample of 12 billion). This is largely thanks to the efforts of the folks at Yahoo! (SearchMonkey), […]
From the Dayton Business Journal: [The] database contains the latest gross metropolitan product (GMP) data for 366 U.S. metropolitan areas. (Click here for more information about the latest national rankings.) GMP is the total output of goods and services within a given metro in a given year. The latest GMP figures tabulated by the U.S. […]
Online Preview Available of the Just Released “Mark Zuckerberg: The Creator of Facebook" Comic Book
|First, the critically acclaimed movie, The Social Network and now Bluewater Productions has released, “Mark Zuckerberg: The Creator of Facebook” a 48 page comic book. The Wall Street Journal Reports: The 48 page glossy comic book, “Mark Zuckerberg: Creator of Facebook,” is scheduled to hit comic book stores today. It promises “a more balanced portrayal […]