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Opera study: Only 4.13% of the web is standards-compliant

By Ryan Paul | Published in www.arstechnica.com Browser maker Opera has published the early results of an ongoing study that aims to provide insight into the structure of Internet content. Major highlights are: 1. Adobe Flash is used on roughly 35 percent of all web sites. 2. The XMLHttpRequest scripting mechanism, one of the cornerstones of Ajax, is used on roughly 3.2 percent of the indexed web sites. So Ajax is growing, though not commesurate to the hype ...

Global Traffic Map

Posted on 11 September 2008

Telegeography carried out a study of the global internet traffic. Some very informative charts are available on the site including this one. The US continues to be the hub of global traffic.

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Stack on DIGG

Posted on 01 September 2008

Digg Stack shows diggs occurring in real time on up to 100 stories at once. Diggers fall from above and stack up on popular stories. Brightly colored stories have more Diggs.

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We Feel Fine

Posted on 01 September 2008

"Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). The result is a ...

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