Category : technology ramblings

  • Facebook is Becoming Essential for Business – Believe the Hype.

    Posted Feb 23rd, 2011 By in technology ramblings With | No Comments

    Going back a decade to the infancy of WestWindMoves, I lost count of  business owners I spoke with who refused to believe that the internet had to become a serious part of their business strategy. “I only advertise in the Liverpool Echo on Thursdays” were the words from one printer (now out of business). I …

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  • Top 10 Websites by Traffic

    Posted Feb 15th, 2011 By in Blog, technology ramblings With | No Comments

    According to Google, the top 10 websites by traffic in the world are as follows: Listed by Unique Visits with page impressions in brackets: Results exclude Google, who are #1 in the world and by their own reckoning #2 in the USA (surpassed by Facebook in 2010) 1 facebook.com 590,000,000 (760,000,000,000) 2 youtube.com 490,000,000 (92,000,000,000) …

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  • Top 10 Websites in the UK

    Posted Feb 14th, 2011 By in Blog, technology ramblings With | No Comments

    According to Google’s own statistics, the top 10 websites in the UK (United Kingdom) by traffic are as follows: Listed by Unique Visits with page impressions in brackets: Results exclude Google, who are #1 in the world and by their own reckoning #2 in the USA (surpassed by Facebook in 2010) 1 facebook.com 26,000,000 (64,000,000,000) …

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  • Top 10 Websites in the USA

    Posted Feb 13th, 2011 By in Blog, technology ramblings With | No Comments

    According to Google, the top 10 websites in the USA (United States of America) by traffic are as follows: Listed by Unique Visits with page impressions in brackets: Results exclude Google, who are #1 in the world and by their own reckoning #2 in the USA (surpassed by Facebook in 2010) 1     facebook.com    …

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  • Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) hanging around like a bad smell.

    Posted Nov 19th, 2010 By in Blog, technology ramblings With | Comments Off

    The premise is simple: Internet Explorer 6 is antiquated, doesn’t support key web standards, and should be phased out. This isn’t about being anti-Microsoft, it’s about making sure that we encourage people to move to modern browsers such as IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. IE6 accounts for up to 20% of web usage, primarily …

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