Web traffic booms on Black Friday

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

Consumers have started to look for Black Friday deals early with online traffic to a custom category of Black Friday advertising Web sites increasing 58 percent compared to last year, according to new data from Experian Marketing Services. Further indication that retail traffic has rebounded to the same level as last year is the 1 [...]

US elections: useful links

Friday, September 12th, 2008

P2008: Race for the White House
http://www.gwu.edu/~action/P2008.html
U.S. Department of State, Foreign Press Center: Elections 2008
http://fpc.state.gov/fpc/c21250.htm
U.S. Department of State: U.S. Elections
http://usinfo.state.gov/dhr/democracy/elections/elections_links.html
U.S. National Archives: U.S. Election & Voting Resources
http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/links2.html#maps
Vanderbilt University Elections Links
http://lib11.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib/godort.plsearchtext=Elections&Type=Simple&Resource=DB&Website=FDTF
Voice of America. The Road to the 2008 Election
http://www.voanews.com/english/US-Elections-2008.cfm

comScore: Top 50 sites in US

Friday, May 16th, 2008

ComScore released its monthly analysis of U.S. top online properties for April 2008. April saw Google attain the number one spot for the first time in its history with a total audience of more than 141 million visitors. Content categories showing gains in April included job search, career resources, and television sites.
“April was a very [...]

Top news sites: Nielsen

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Nielsen Online released the top 30 sites in the “News” category based on February 2008 traffic. This data takes into account U.S. home and work Internet usage, and it shows both unique visitors to each brand or channel and sessions per person. Nielsen Online is providing these data sets to the Newspaper Association of America [...]

List of Sites That Teach You How To Do Stuff

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Quote: In this horribly-titled, but hopefully useful round-up we will specifically focus on such general purpose sites that include some sort of rich media instruction (generally video). We also might throw in a tech-focused site or two, since this is after all, a tech-focused blog.

Carrefour Romania: supermarkets have great potential

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Jacobo Caller Celestino, general manager of Carrefour Romania, believes the supermarket sector has a higher potential than the discount segment, and does not plan to launch any stores on the latter segment on medium term.

More election websites

Friday, February 1st, 2008

For those intrested in politics.

comScore Releases Top Japan Sites, December, 2007

Monday, January 28th, 2008

TOKYO, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR),
a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its December
rankings of the largest and fastest-growing Internet properties and site
categories in Japan, based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience
measurement service.

How to find legal MP3 download sites

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Existing technology makes music videos more accessible than ever, with a enormous percentage of people now downloading music from the internet to their MP3 player or ipods. Many people use file sharing sites to find their MP3 player files, but these sites do not have copyright ownership. This alters the stability and condition of the [...]