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Worlds Most Blocked Websites

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.

1. Facebook.com —14.2%
2. MySpace.com — 9.9%
3. YouTube.com — 8.1%
4. Doubleclick.net — 6.4%
5. Twitter.com — 2.3%
6. Ad.yieldmanager.com — 1.9%
7. Redtube.com —1.4%
8. Limewire.com — 1.3%
9. Pornhub.com —1.2%
10.Playboy.com — 1.2%

iOS 4.4 Release Date

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?

iPad Turns One: Happy Birthday

Today marks the first birthday of the iPad. To celebrate the iPad’s first year, the folks at OnSwipe created this infographic:

Yahoo: The Rise and Fall: Infographic

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?

The State of Wikipedia: Video Narrated by Jimmy Wales

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.

Facebook vs Twitter: 2010 Social Demographic Breakdown

Here is a great infographic comparing the social demographics between Facebook and Twitter.

Identity Theft and Your Password Security: Infographic

This infographic from Reflectionof.me provides some interesting stats about identity theft and your password security.

Twitter Trends for 2010

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.

Facebook is the most used URL in Twitter Profiles

The #followfriday Spanish blog compiled a report, using FilterTweeps, about Twitter profiles and people’s URL: Facebook is the preferred URL taking the 28% of Twitter users.

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.

[infographic] Evolution of the E-Mail

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.

Take a look to the complete infographic here: