Most readers are likely unfamiliar with chatbot... Many have probably never heard the term. That's ok as chatbot is an emerging technology which is just making its way into our lives. Chatbot combines artificial intelligence with instant messaging, allowing humans to interact with bots. This can have far reaching applications including: Customer Service Interactive Toys Education Financial, … [Read more...]
Flippa and a lot of other websites down due to Amazon’s AWS S3
Flippa and a lot of other sites are currently down due to a problem at Amazon. TechCrunch reported: Amazon’s S3 web-based storage service is experiencing widespread issues, leading to service that’s either partially or fully broken on websites, apps and devices upon which it relies. The AWS offering provides hosting for images for a lot of sites, and also hosts entire websites, and app backends … [Read more...]
Is This Why Microsoft Purchased LinkedIn?
It is not surprising, to many of our readers, that LinkedIn was acquired by Microsoft on 13 June 2016 for $26.2 billion dollars. LinkedIn is the preeminent business network and has realized tremendous growth and acceptance over the last decade. LinkedIn is a very powerful resource and has greatly benefitted its users and the business community as a whole, since its inception. What might be surprising … [Read more...]
Your Website Has Less Human Traffic Than You Think
By: Raymond Hackney The Fiscal Times did a story that looked at a report from Incapsula about just how much traffic on the Internet is human traffic, and how much is from non human traffic. A report released recently by Incapsula, a cloud-based web-security service, found that 61.5 percent of all website traffic now comes from these non-human visitors. If you're reading this and you're human, … [Read more...]
A Roadmap To Your Website’s Traffic
By: Raymond Hackney Host Gator put together this look at "Where Traffic Comes From" Courtesy of Host Gator … [Read more...]
Internet Milestones
By: Raymond Hackney Internet Milestones A look back at the first email, spam and banner ad along with some other firsts that now are seen ubiquitously around the world. Courtesy of Evevo … [Read more...]
A look at the new Yahoo logo and which one consumers liked best
By: Raymond Hackney A reader emailed me last week about the new Yahoo logo and to see what people thought. Its always interesting when big brands try to change their look or rebrand. Survata took a very in depth look at the Yahoo proposed logos and what people thought about them. They also looked at how the more things change, the more they stay the same. Read the whole study at Survata Related … [Read more...]
The Blogconomy – Blogging Stats and What the top Bloggers Earn from their sites
By: Raymond Hackney Ignite Spot took a detailed look at the blogging universe and detailed some pretty interesting stats. From the number of bloggers each month to the fact that the majority of bloggers are women. I was on a Hubspot webinar recently where Dan Zarella had Chris Pirilo from Locker Gnome on, Chris said he felt blogging was done. Looking at the stats here that does not seem to be the … [Read more...]
South Korea and Japan Have Top Internet Speed, US is behind Latvia ?
By: Raymond Hackney You will find more statistics at Statista For some time now, South Korea has boasted the highest average internet connection speed in the world. In the first quarter of 2013, South Korean internet users surfed at an average speed of 14.2 Mbps, 65% faster than Americans whose connection speed averaged at 8.6 Mbps. To add a little perspective: at 8.6 Mbps, it takes a little less than an … [Read more...]
7 Internet Stats and Trends That May Surprise You
By: Raymond Hackney Staff.com takes a look at a few Internet stats that may surprise you. Courtesy of Staff.com … [Read more...]
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