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Wikipedia - Where do People Go After Visiting Wikipedia?
March 27, 2008
Wikipedia ranked as the 13th most visited website in the US last week, accounting for about 1 in every 200 US Internet visits. The website is hugely popular and with so much traffic going through the site, it is important... Continue reading...
Posted by Heather Hopkins at 08:45 AM
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MLB Season Starts Early Online
March 20, 2008
Major League Baseball opening day is still four days away but sports fans are already racing online for team news, tickets and gossip. Last week, share of US Internet visits to Baseball websites hit a high so far in 2008... Continue reading...
Posted by Heather Hopkins at 09:00 AM
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Yahoo! Buzz Catching up to Digg.com
March 17, 2008
This morning I was interested to see the thread on Techmeme's homepage about the success so far of Yahoo! Buzz. The RedWriteWeb story provides statistics on traffic from Yahoo! Buzz to some of the publishers involved in the Beta. ReadWriteWeb... Continue reading...
Posted by Heather Hopkins at 08:45 AM
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Spring Break Searches Rise As Students Prepare for Florida and Vegas
March 13, 2008
The big weeks for Spring Break 2008 are March 10 - 21. In past years, this week (week to 15th March) has been the peak week for searches for spring break travel deals. According to US Internet searcher behavior, searches... Continue reading...
Posted by Heather Hopkins at 08:48 AM
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The Scot Heard Round the World - The Scotsman and Overseas Newspapers
March 10, 2008
Last week The Scotsman published comments made off the record by Samantha Powers, an aide to the Obama campaign. I am married to a journalist so we spent much of the weekend soul searching with other journalists about the ethics... Continue reading...
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Craigslist Traffic Nearly Doubles Year on Year
March 05, 2008
Craigslist traffic just keeps climbing. Year on year last week, share of US visits to Craigslist.org were up 93%. And it's not just traffic to the main Craigslist page, share of US Internet visits to the Hitwise Classifieds category, which... Continue reading...
Posted by Heather Hopkins at 08:23 AM
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Digg, Stumbled Upon Is there Room for Yahoo! Buzz
March 04, 2008
Last week, Yahoo! announced the launch of Yahoo! Buzz as a social news site. I wanted to share some statistics on news aggregators and profile Digg and Stumble Upon to see whether there might be room for another social news... Continue reading...
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