OpenDNS has compiled a report that showcases the world’s most blocked websites. The list includes social sites (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter) and adult websites (Redtube, Pornhub and Playboy) as usual but the presence of two major advertising networks on that list suggests people do have their share of privacy concerns.
Here’s the complete list of frequently blocked sites from OpenDNS. Percentages indicate the proportion of OpenDNS networks using blacklisting that reference a given site.
Here we are about to embark on Apple releasing iOS 4.3. There have been a lot of improvments and upgrades to iOS 4.3. I just wanted to pose the question to our readers. When do you think iOS 4.4 will be released and do you think it will be for the iPhone 4 or iPhone 5?
Techcrunch has put together a great infographic about the rise and fall of Yahoo. What do you think about Yahoo and the current status of their company?
Wikipedia is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a video (narrated by founder and CEO Jimmy Wales) and an infographic showcasing the organization’s major milestones over the years.
The State of Wikipedia is a project that takes into account Wikipedia history, site statistics and results from the March 2010 Wikipedia survey conducted by the United Nations University.
There were more than 25 billion tweets sent in 2010 and here are the top Twitter trends from all those tweets.
Here are the top 10 overall trending Tweet topics in 2010:
1. Gulf Oil Spill
2. FIFA World Cup
3. Inception
4. Haiti Earthquake
5. Vuvuzela
6. Apple iPad
7. Google Android
8. Justin Bieber
9. Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows
10. Pulpo Paul
You can find trends for each category at Twitter’s trending microsite.
This blog is in charge of analyzing the #FollowFriday (or #FF) recommendations to create this type of reports, in this case combining their Twitter users database (with over 11 million users) with FilterTweeps, a powerful web app for searching users in Twitter.
The results of the URL in Twitter profiles show a preference by users to insert their Facebook home pages, taking the 28% of the total users. The other sites in the list are: Blogspot, 20%; Myspace, 13%; Tumblr, 8.3%; Orkut, 8%; Twitter (why?!), 6%. You can find the entire list here.
The Blog Herald created a very interesting infographic summarizing the entire history of one of the oldest tools in Internet history: E-Mail.
In this infographic we can find several facts about e-mail, for example:
2 billion e-mails are sent every day.
Brazil is the number one country for spams generation with 7.7 trillion (yes, trillions!) spams sent every year.
There are around 1.3 billion e-mail users.
The average size of an e-mail is 75KB.
The @ symbol was included in keyboards in 1885, but the first original use for this character was in 1971 when Tomlinson used it as the division within the first e-mail sent.
