According to the Internet traffic experts at Hitwise, the top ten U.S. search terms overall for 2006 were, from first to tenth place: myspace, myspace.com, ebay, yahoo, mapquest, www.myspace.com, yahoo.com, my space, myspace layouts, and lyrics. Hitwise also released the 2006 top ten search terms used across specialty websites, including websites devoted to entertainment, sports, movies, television, travel and lifestyle-fashion.
An unlikely star of American television is back at her Dalkeith home in Scotland after appearing on a US chat show, the BBC reports. Mairi Duncan was flown to Hollywood to take part in the Jimmy Kimmell Live programme after its host saw internet footage of her fall through a trapdoor.
Nearly 10 years ago the barmaid stepped backwards into an opening in the floor which led to the basement 14ft below. Check out the full story.
SENATORIAL aspirant Loren Legarda has hailed the use of online tools such as podcasts to cover the coming May elections, saying it serves as an equalizer for candidates who may not have money but really have “something to say.”
Legarda, a former broadcast journalist, agreed that technology is changing the face of journalism and opening new ways for Filipinos to be aware of the issues that matter.
“It has also made it maybe more affordable, and now that I know about this podcasting, I will probably do it more often and squeeze every aspect of it,” she said during a podcast interview session with INQUIRER.net.
The internet is set to revolutionise television within five years, due to an explosion of online video content and the merging of PCs and TV sets, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said. “I’m stunned how people aren’t seeing that with TV, in five years from now, people will laugh at what we’ve had,” he told business leaders and politicians at the World Economic Forum on Saturday.
PodZinger has published the results of a study, revealing the top searches and trends on its site for 2006. The statistics showed that sports, talk personalities and world news topped audio search, while current events and pop culture accounted for the majority of online video searches.
It’s pretty safe to say that 2006 was the year of the podcast, says WebProNews
MySpace.com is facing pressure after a new round of lawsuits filed on Thursday that allege it failed to protect minors, and experts say the cases will enter murky legal territory.
Four families whose underage daughters were sexually assaulted last year after meeting men in person they had met online on MySpace filed separate lawsuits in Los Angeles Superior Court. Lawyers for the families contend MySpace waited too long to employ security measures to protect underage users.
MySpace, a social networking site owned by News Corp., has upgraded its security features after criticism the site could be used by predators to target children. The lawsuits come in the same week MySpace revealed it would release software, called Zephyr, for parents to monitor changes in their children’s accounts, InfoWorld reports.
Ever conscious of a good trend, TV networks and advertisers are increasingly adopting the YouTube model of viewer-created content.VH1, currently airing the third season of Web Junk 20, will next month premiere the Jack Black-produced Acceptable TV, which attempts to fuse TV with the Web. In February, Nickelodeon debuted a two-hour programming block called ME:TV, featuring contributions from 10-year-olds. TLC last week began a six-part documentary series, My Life as a Child, where children were given cameras to videotape their lives.
Also, high-profile consumer-created ads for Doritos, Chevy and Dove ran during the Super Bowl and the Academy Awards.
Employers see big benefits from e-learning compared to more traditional training methods, according to research from e-skills UK.
Eight in 10 employers said the biggest drivers for using technology to teach is the accessibility, flexibility and cost-effectiveness that high-tech courses offer. Currently these courses generally consist of training programmes offered to staff on their PCs - either via the internet or via dedicated training software.
The most popular up and coming high-tech teaching methods include podcasting - where teachers send audio files to students - and chatrooms - where teachers and students can discuss topics. Seventeen per cent of employers plan to use these technologies in the next three years.
Powered by WordPress