Internet Stats Today

A  small country with a large interest in the Internet. Read about Internet usage in the Philippines.

comScore released on August 19,2009 a study on broadband growth in rural, micropolitan and metropolitan areas in the United States. The results of the analysis indicate that while broadband penetration is much higher in the metropolitan and micropolitan areas, broadband has experienced the most significant gains in rural areas during the past two years. “Across [...]

In a recent report the Pew Research Center says that 62% of U.S. adult Internet users watch videos on YouTube and other video-sharing web sites, up from 33% in late 2006. The report also notes that viewing content on video-sharing sites has grown most sharply among younger Internet users since last year: Among Internet users [...]

The latest entry into the blogosphere is President Lula of Brazil. Here is his blog. Click here to see Brazil Internet Stats.

Not only President Barack Obama has his own blog. Blogs now have become popular among other politicians. For example, in the UK the Right Honorable Gordon Brown has his blog. This makes sense when you consider that there are 48,755,000 estimated Internet users in the United Kingdom.

In a smart move, Facebook has acquired FriendFeed for 50 million dollars from it’s founders. All 12 FriendFeed employees, including the founders (four ex-Google employees) will join Facebook, giving Facebook a boost to its engineering talent. Several features make FriendFeed unique and explain it’s approximately one million subscribers.  FriendFeed is a real-time feed aggregator that [...]