The Best Social Media Statistics for 2011
Over at Ragan’s PR daily, Adam Vincenzini has released an interesting collection of social media statistics for this year. Among my favorites: 80% of internet users participate in groups, compared with 56% of non-internet users. Moreover, social media users are even more likely to be active: 82% of social network users and 85% of Twitter […]
Knowing what they don’t want others to know
A recent development in Internet openness by a major search engine may forever change the partnership of secrecy between state searches and net giants. Google recently published a list of government requests for information and pages to be censored from the Internet. This list includes over 40 countries writes the BBC, with Brazil leading the […]
Startpage – the new privacy engine pits speed versus need
Web users looking for greater privacy in their web browsing have a new search engine to choose from, Startpage. Operating as an Internet middleman, the engine keeps no records of searchers and filters queries through its own scrambler, so-to-speak, before passing the information to the anonymous user. The media frenzy surrounding China’s state surveillance of […]
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