According to Forrester’s research report on behavior of US internet users says one third of US internet users update their status on social networking websites once in a week. The Social Technographics is way to analyze market’s social technology behavior. Social Technographics was carefully constructed, not as a segmentation, but as a profile (that is, the groups overlap). That’s because the actual data told me that people participate in multiple behaviors, and not everyone at a higher level on the ladder actually does everything in the lower rungs.

The first group includes the ones who create personal contents (including publishing blogs or uploading original multimedia files) and account for 24 percent of the persons surveyed. The joiners, 59 percent of the total number, are those already members of a social service and they maintain their profile updated by posting frequent new content.

The second group includes the ones who updates their social networking status to converse. this data include only people who update at least weekly, since anything less than this isn’t much of a conversation. 56% female, more than any other group in the ladder. While they’re among the youngest of the groups, 70% are still 30 and up.

Spectators are maxing out at around 70%, Joiners are still growing rapidly, and Creators are still growing slowly. Spectators  are accustomed to reading news, blogs and feeds or enjoying multimedia tidbits on these platforms.

Note: For Forrester clients, full access to the research is available here.

A day after YouTube announced HTML5 supported video player vimeo has also announced availability of HTML5 video player for all videos on the site as an option ad it is better than Flash based video player. Only 90% of videos uploaded in the last year will work in the new player. All told, about 35% of all videos will still require the standard Flash player. In this case, Vimeo will automatically switch for you. It should just always work.

HTML5 video player on vimeo offers a numbers of benefit over Flash based player including more stable on Mac and Linux, the player loads almost instantly and it’s just HTML code a lot lighter than loading all the Flash content – and there is no more buffering. HTML5 video player plays vide straight away, if your internet connection can handle it, and you can jump instantly to any position and continue playback smoothly.

To enable the HTML5 player, click the "Switch to HTML5 player" link below any video.

vimeo HTML5 video works only with latest versions of Safari, Chrome, or IE with Chrome Frame installed. It cannot go full screen. Unfortunately this is a limitation of the browsers right now. vimeo is working on adding at least full-window support. HTML5 video player only works on vimeo.com no embed option is available. Finally vimeo video player is in beta and it might be buggy.

Conficker is a computer software program that tries to exploit loopholes in various versions of Windows operating system. pirated copies of windows are prone to Conficker as compare to genuine copies of windows. Linux and Mac computers are safe from Conficker attack. Conficker can comes to your computer via internet or infected memory sticks.

What Conficker Do?

Conficker first tries to stop all your security programs running on your computer. Then it will stop the communication of web services that are being by security software’s for updating their database. Conficker also stop the working of Windows updates. As of now Conficker generating 50,000 domain names daily and these domain names communicating with each other in a systematically. whoever created the Conficker warn just has to activate one of the domain name and the creator will be able to take control of millions of zombie computers that have been created.

How to Remove Detect and Conficker ?

If you are running a genuine copy of windows then you might not hit by Conficker. Check whether your security software’s including Firewall, antivirus, anti spyware are running or not. Also windows update in working or not. If all these services are running fine then their is no risk on your computer.

The US department of Homeland  Security released a tool to detect whether a computer is infected by Conficker warm.

Namechk is a new service that help users to find an user name over 84 websites without going to the websites. Service is really useful if you are looking to create an account with any of the website and you don’t want to go to each of the website. Sometimes an easy to remember user name or profile name can help you a lot instead of a complex user name. So This service comes very handy for searching user name over the internet.

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News aggregator website Techfuga is finally comes out of beta and they have recently launched the updated version of this website. The new look more clear as compare to the previous version of the website and Techfuga will defiantly give good fight to news aggregator website Techmeme.  Among many other enhancements, the most relevant open to the publish today are:

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Hotmail POP3 access is finally available worldwide.In January, the feature trickled out to the UK, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, as well as the Netherlands, and then arrived in the US and Brazil in February. here are the details you need to know for POP3:

POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995)  
POP SSL required? Yes
User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example yourname@hotmail.com
Password: The password you usually use to sign in to Hotmail or Windows Live
SMTP server: smtp.live.com (Port 25 or 587)  
Authentication required? Yes (this matches your POP username and password)
TLS/SSL required? Yes

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The Internet has added 24 million new domain names according to the fourth quarter 2008 Domain Name Industry Brief by VeriSign. Year 2008 ended with 177 million domain name registrations across all of the Top Level Domains (TLDs). This shows a growth of 16 percent over the previous year. 10.1 million New domain names were registered in forth quarter of year 2008 across all TLDs. The composition of the domain name industry and rank order in terms of base size remained consistent in the fourth quarter. The five largest TLDs in terms of base size were .com, .cn (China), .de (Germany), .net, and .org.

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Hitwise released the data for the top 20 most popular website in UK for the month September 2008.

Note - the Hitwise data featured is based on UK market share of visits, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or industry, from the Hitwise sample of 8.4 million Internet users in the UK. Hitwise measures more than 1 million unique websites on a daily basis, including sub-domains of larger websites. Hitwise categorises websites into industries on the basis of subject matter and content, as well as market orientation and competitive context.

Category “A” Internet service provider World Phone Internet Services Pvt. Ltd said that it will provide cable broadband Internet service for Delhi and the National Capital Region at a low tariff of Rs95 per month.

Aditya Ahluwalia, chairman, World Phone Internet Services Pvt. Ltd. said

We hope that with this price tag and the quality of service we will be able to garner at least 5,000 subscriber in the first three month. Lower monthly commitment would be a strong and bold step by World Phone for enhancing broadband penetration in masses.

World Phone Internet services private Limited has ushered a new era in communications for India. We offer a simple and dependable technology that will never let our subscriber down. Backed by constant innovations and a 24×7 customer support, a World Phone connection will ensure the user is connected to the world at all times

World Phone has tie up with some cable service providers in Delhi and NCR region. People subscribing with World Phone Internet broadband service will get 256kbps Internet speed with 200MB data transfer limit. Currently the service is only available in selected  areas only after Delhi and NCR region World Phone is planning to provide the same service in Mumbai, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad and Kolkata in coming months.

This is not the first time when World Phone Ltd. offering such a low price for it’s services, last year they have offered lowest possible tariff for its international call rates to USA, UK, Australia and Canada.

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