New and noteworthy for 4/6/09
Widgets & RSS FeedsOfficial Google Enterprise Blog: Spam data and trends: Q1 2009: Google recently released an informative report summarizing data from its Postini acquisition. Some results include: Spam levels have roughly returned to the levels seen before the McColo takedown. Location-based spam is a new arrival that geo-targets a message containing local news after the user clicks on a link to give it added authenticity.
Domain Name Industry Brief from VeriSign, Inc.: Versign is the designated registry for .com and .net TLDs. Verisign says there around now 177 million domains registered across all top level domains and that this is a 16 percent growth over the previous year. Of those 177 million domains roughly 71 million were Country Code Top Level Domain Names (ccTLDs) which represented a 22 percent growth.
Battle of the sizes: Social network users vs. country populations: Pingom posted a succinct graphic comparing the relative population sizes of various social networks to the populations of some major countries. Some of the major findings include: QZone a Chinese social network has a population larger than Facebook, while Facebook has a larger population than Russia. MySpace has a population that is similar to Mexico’s.
