Here are my weekly notes:
- Happy Chinese New Year! I had a great dinner tonight with Sharon’s family.
- Nicholas Carr wrote an interesting post this week about what he calls “the information triumvirate” – the web as the medium, Google as the navigation of that medium, and Wikipedia as the destination.
- According to new traffic data from Hitwise, Twitter surpassed Digg for the first time this week. Maybe that’s why they have been able to raise more money at a $250 million valuation.
- One of my favorite commercials is The Discovery Channel’s “I love the whole world”. I guess Microsoft Learning thought it would be fun to spoof! The Halo one is pretty good, actually.
- Wizzard Media announced on Thursday that it recorded 1.2 billion podcast download requests in 2008. Fairly impressive numbers!
- Here’s some more statistics: the Internet 2008 in numbers from Pingdom.
- And even more: comScore estimates that the worldwide Internet population is 1.5 billion. Amazingly, they estimate that 21.8 million Canadians are online.
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Probably not the right forum to post this, but it’s on my mind right now.
On that page, one of the videos asked me to get the latest silverlight player. Fine. Click the link, and it just goes straight to a .exe via a couple of URL forwarders. No MS branded page telling me what to do with it or anything (like Adobe does with Flash); just a .exe download pops up. Not really very… good. Would be an interesting way to distribute malware.