An ambitious project called MapMyName, launched by two graduate students from Aveiro University in Portugal, aims to map and subsequently count all the Internet users in the world. This is made possible, according to a video release in YouTube, due … Read More
Hi5, one of the most successful web 2.0 sites in Europe, and one of the most visited sites in Portugal, chose Sapo, the most important entertainment portal in that country, as the search engine for its Portuguese users. Sapo replaces … Read More
Google offered an apology to search rival Sohu who complained its data was used by Google in a new Internet tool. This recent controversy highlights the intense competition in China’s booming online market where Internet companies invest heavily on search, … Read More
A non-profit organisation, Japan Web development and Web marketing Consortium was established on 1 April to improve the quality of Japanese web. Current members include, Adobe Systems, Apple, Microsoft, web design companies, and some individual members. They plan to offer … Read More
Mail.ru will has signed a deal to broadcast the Soyuz space shuttle launch through their new online video service, video.mail.ru. On 7 April at 21.00 Moscow time a live audience of millions of television viewers and Internet users can watch … Read More
David Sifry outlines the state of the Blogosphere in the first quaterly report 2007 … Read More
Japan Registry Services, who handle JP domain management and DNS operation, announced that there are 908,329 registered JP domains as of April 4, 2007, which makes JP domain to be the 10th popular domains in the world. (There are about … Read More
Japan University just announced its plan to introduce Google Apps (Education Edition), and provide it to students (up to 100,000 students). The service includes, Gmail, Google talk and Google calender. They plan to provide the service to a total of … Read More
A report by Nielsen/Net Ratings on the site view changes in February shows most of the popular cooking (recipes) sites had a large increase in site views. 3 of them had more than 30% increase in site view from January, and most of the increase came from female between 20-50. … Read More
Marketing Sherpa have released a useful white paper on Website Globalisation, you can download this free of charge until the 11th April. Web globalization isn’t just for large multinational corporations anymore. Companies of all sizes are capitalizing on the Internet … Read More
Yahoo! Japan announced the opening of Yahoo! Japan Laboratory in Tokyo. It aims to contribute to a healthy, rich development of the Internet by investigating and researching a further possibility of the Internet with the advancement of the technology, and … Read More
The project, codenamed SecondUA intends to project the Portuguese University by being one of only 70 worldwide to establish a presence in Second Life. The University of Aveiro bought an island in Second Life and plans to divide it into … Read More
The 2nd Internet and Business conference will take place in Moscow on the 18th-20th of April. Some of the topics set to be covered include: Exponential growth of internet in Russia Contextual advertising/pay for placement systems and future developments Electronic … Read More
Google is celebrating their first anniversary in Russia at the moment and according to 3dnews.ru, they are marking the occasion by opening a new office in Moscow. In 2006, Google set up two development centers in Moscow and St. Petersburg. … Read More
Nearly 25% of Internet users in the UK is over the age of 50 and a the latest surveys shoe that the Internet is even more popular than gardening among UK pensioners. A generation in the UK is growing up … Read More
