Finnish newcomer Floobs.com is to launch a tv-channel style video site where anyone can upload their videos. The site will include video feeds. Currently the site is undergoing testing in the Finnish language – but an English-language version is to follow in November. We’ve seen a rush of video-sites in
Yahoo has been successful in gaining a social networking partner for its UK and Irish advertisers – namely Bebo. Bebo is particularly interesting in Ireland where it has one million subscribers… a whacking proportion of the population. If you’re Irish – you must be on Bebo! And it is Yahoo
French Financial Times subsidiary – Les Echos – reports that 1 million people started buying online in the second quarter of 2007 compared to the first with the result that 4% of all retail is now transacted online in France. The number of active online merchants in the same period
The .EU domain registrar management organisation, EURid has suspended 10,000 EU domain names which have been apparently legally registered by a Chinese woman – reports out-law. EURid has the power to remove the domain names from the woman – but has said that it would prefer a court to do
According to Futurezone from ORF.at, for the first time the number of internet users in Austria aged over 14 exceeds two thirds of the total population at 68% representing 4.6 million people. Intriguingly, the nature of internet use has been changing in Austria more towards multimedia use with 27% of
At least two major new features are arriving in Google’s webmaster tools console according to information from the SES San Jose conference and the official Google webmaster tools blog. The latter has announced support for the Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) and a series of further enhancements are expected.
North Korea is expected to get its own domain identity from ICANN, according to a France Press report via Inquirer.net. Internet access in the North of Korea is strictly limited – but the award of an internet identity for the country is, at least, a stepping stone towards opening up
PC Advisor brings us the news that Google believes planned acquisitions of Chinese companies will give it the top search engine spot over incumbent Baidu. Google plans to buy at least two and invest in several more Chinese companies over the coming months and CEO Eric Schmidt is quoted as
A report by PhoCusWright Inc says that the European market on average will hit 25% of transactions carried out online during 2007 – this figure was achieved in the US in 2004. There are, however some key differences in European markets:- UK and German buying patterns are most similar to
The Asia Digital Marketing Yearbook – www.asiadma.com gives Vietnam an internet population of 15.5 million users but reports that the country derives little economic benefit. “However, the internet is not used to any great effect: The websites of many ministries and provinces are not updated and do not have useful