Sunday, March 28, 2010
Reflections
"The main purpose of acquiring knowledge is to give it away" was a quote my dad picked up from an SMU advertisement back home in Singapore. And it rings true in my ears - more than an acceptable perspective to make meaning with the life direction I decided to take, it re-affirms another little bit of wisdom my mother used to share with me. It has shaped me into who I am today! It is originally in Mandarin, but when translated, it reads - "Helping others is the source of all true happiness".
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Facebook beats Google for visitors: tracker
Noteworthy stuff.
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Facebook beats Google for visitors: tracker
March 18, 2010 - 7:01AM
Source - The Age
Social-networking star Facebook surpassed Google to become the most visited website in the United States for the first time last week.
Facebook's homepage finished the week ending March 13 as the most visited site in the country, according to industry tracker Hitwise.
The "important milestone", as described by Hitwise director of research Heather Dougherty, came as Facebook enjoyed a massive 185 per cent increase in visits in the same period, compared to the same week in 2009.
By comparison, visits to search engine home Google.com increased only nine per cent in the same time - although the tracker does not include Google property sites such as the popular Gmail email service, YouTube and Google Maps.
Taken together, Facebook.com and Google.com amounted to 14 per cent of the entire US internet visits last week, Dougherty said.
Google has been positioning challenges in recent months to Facebook and the micro-blogging site Twitter by adding the social-networking feature Buzz to its Gmail service.
In what could signal an escalating battle between Facebook and Google, the leading social-networking service celebrated its sixth birthday earlier this year with changes including a new message inbox that echoes Gmail's format.
Facebook boasts some 400 million users while Gmail had 176 million unique visitors in December, according to tracking firm comScore.
AFP
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Facebook beats Google for visitors: tracker
March 18, 2010 - 7:01AM
Source - The Age
Social-networking star Facebook surpassed Google to become the most visited website in the United States for the first time last week.
Facebook's homepage finished the week ending March 13 as the most visited site in the country, according to industry tracker Hitwise.
The "important milestone", as described by Hitwise director of research Heather Dougherty, came as Facebook enjoyed a massive 185 per cent increase in visits in the same period, compared to the same week in 2009.
By comparison, visits to search engine home Google.com increased only nine per cent in the same time - although the tracker does not include Google property sites such as the popular Gmail email service, YouTube and Google Maps.
Taken together, Facebook.com and Google.com amounted to 14 per cent of the entire US internet visits last week, Dougherty said.
Google has been positioning challenges in recent months to Facebook and the micro-blogging site Twitter by adding the social-networking feature Buzz to its Gmail service.
In what could signal an escalating battle between Facebook and Google, the leading social-networking service celebrated its sixth birthday earlier this year with changes including a new message inbox that echoes Gmail's format.
Facebook boasts some 400 million users while Gmail had 176 million unique visitors in December, according to tracking firm comScore.
AFP
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