Wired Declares The Web Is Dead—Don’t Pull Out The Coffin Just Yet The Web is dead, or at least in decline, declares Wired editor Chris Anderson in the magazine’s September cover story. The article is anchored by the startling infographic above, which shows the proportion of different types of traffic on the Internet. The Web, HTML traffic visible though a browser, is only about a quarter (23%) of the overall traffic, down from about half a decade ago. Setting aside whether Wired massaged the numbers to make its chart look pretty, Anderson’s larger point is that increasingly we are consuming information via apps other than the browser. Over the past few years, one of the most important shifts in the digital world has been the move from the wide-open Web to semiclosed platforms that use the Internet for transport but not the browser for display. That may be true for now, but don’t count the browser out just yet. Update: Wired had the wrong timeline on its initial graphic.
Webby Nominees Webby Honorees, Nominees and Winners truly represent the best of the Web. They are but a small percentage of total entries and chosen by members of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. See them all here. Webby Lifetime Achievement: Mayor Michael Bloomberg Webby Person of the Year: Louis C.K. Webby Artist of the Year: Björk Best Actresses of the Year: Juliette Lewis and Graydon Sheppard of "Sh*t Girls Say" Webby Breakout of the Year: Instagram Webby Agency of the Year: BBH With nearly 70 categories, Website entries make up the majority of Webby Awards Winners, Nominees and Honorees. Jump to category: back to top
Blog: 100 Websites You Should Know and Use In the spring of 2007, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, gave a legendary TED University talk: an ultra-fast-moving ride through the “100 websites you should know and use.” Six years later, it remains one of the most viewed TED blog posts ever. Time for an update? We think so. Below, the 2013 edition of the 100 websites to put on your radar and in your browser. To see the original list, click here. And now, the original list from 2007, created by Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH. Tubetorial Moonfruit secures $2.25m funding to accelerate internationally You would think most people know how to get a simple web site up and running these days just on something like WordPress, but the fact remains that millions of people don’t have these skills. As a result Moonfruit, the web site building business which has survived the dotcom bust to return in the age of Web 2.0, is on a charge. It’s profitable, growing internationally and as a result has chosen to fundraise to really take the market on. Moonfruit competes with Weebly, Yola and Webnode, and many others that provide services for building simple but elegant web sites, as opposed to blogs. Moonfruit is a real blast form the past come good. Wendy Tan White, founder and CMO of Moonfruit says the company has been profitable for seven years “But the self-publishing market is only just starting to gather serious momentum, and we want to accelerate our growth… The time is right now for a calculated risk to take the business to the next level.” What of the competition? … Learn More
29 Semi-Productive Things I Do Online When I’m Trying to Avoid R You don’t always have to work hard to be productive. Productivity can simply be the side effect of doing the right things. So here’s a list of 29 semi-productive things I do online when my mind is set on avoiding ‘real work.’ Check delicious popular tags like ‘useful,’ ‘tutorials,’ ‘tips,’ ‘howto,’ ‘advice,’ ‘entrepreneurship,’ etc. for interesting, educational articles to read.Watch one of the thousands of educational videos streaming at TED.com, Academic Earth and Teacher Tube.Read an online book list and find a new book to grab next time I’m at the library. Here’s another list. Oh, and ever since I bought my new (super sexy) Apple iPad , I’ve been enjoying all of these sites on the go and catching looks from almost everyone who passes me while I browse. So what kind of semi-productive things do you do online in your off-time? Photo by: Colorblind Picaso Party Casino Related 30 Life-Enhancing Things You Can Do in 30 Minutes or Less April 19, 2012 In "Happiness" We're all way too busy.
Internet Control Issues: It’s Not Just China Fighting international cyber-terrorism isn’t easy, but it’s a mission on which we can all agree, right? Not so fast. Russia has been pushing a proposal in The United Nations agency for information technology, which describes the greatest cyber-threat not as hacking or stealing but as using the Internet to spread ideas that might undermine a country. Sounds like China right? NPR covered the story this morning, but it’s not a new shift in thinking. It’s a delicate issue for the US diplomatically and inside the US– way bigger than “Googlegate” because, well, I refer you again to the map. I usually try not to get into a lather about protecting Internet freedoms in other countries, because I don’t think it’s the job of private sector tech companies who are supposed to be international to act as tools to enforce Western-style democracy. But this is something different. This problem is not going to go away– and not just because Russia appears to introduce it every year.
Royal Pingdom » Internet 2010 in numbers What happened with the Internet in 2010? How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? We used a wide variety of sources from around the Web to put this post together. Prepare for a good kind of information overload. Email 107 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010.294 billion – Average number of email messages per day.1.88 billion – The number of email users worldwide.480 million – New email users since the year before.89.1% – The share of emails that were spam.262 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 89% are spam).2.9 billion – The number of email accounts worldwide.25% – Share of email accounts that are corporate. Websites 255 million – The number of websites as of December 2010.21.4 million – Added websites in 2010. Web servers Domain names Internet users Social media Web browsers Videos Images Data sources and notes: Spam percentage from MessageLabs (PDF).