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Google Top Searches 2007 vs Yahoo Top Ten: iPhone and Britney Spears No. 1

Published on December 5, 2007 in Anna Nicole Smith, Beyonce, Britney Spears, Club Penguin, Facebook, Fantasy Football, Fergie, Google, Google Inc., Google Top 10, Heroes, Jessica Alba, Lindsay Lohan, MySpace, Naruto, Paris Hilton, Rune Scape, SEO, TMZ, Top searches 2007, Transformer, WWE, Web 2.0, Web technology, Webkinz, Yahoo Top 10, YouTube, hot, iPhone, top keywords, web traffic and yahoo. 12 Comments

Hottest searches for 2007: Technology and entertainment. Britney Spears sure knows how to be in the news!

Check out the top search keywords for Google and Yahoo 2007.

Top Searches

Google fastest rising U.S. search terms for 2007:

1. iPhone: iPhone, the Apple mobile phone with music and video player and web browsing features tops the Google top searches 2007 list.
2. Webkinz: Webkinz is a stuffed animal that customers can register and play with online.
3. TMZ: A telepictures production and America Online joint venture that provides an inside look at the latest celebrity scandals.
4. Transformer toys: Transformers are highly flexible toys that shift shape, and became wildly popular from the 2007 hit movie transformers
5. YouTube: online video-sharing site
6. Club Penguin: Networking site for children
7. MySpace: Social networking site
8. Heroes: Heroes is an American science fiction serial drama television series created by Tim Kring on NBC.
9. Facebook: Social/business networking site
10. Anna Nicole Smith: Anna Nicole Smith was an American sex symbol, model, actress, celebrity, and spokeswoman.

Yahoo Top 10 Searches for 2007:

1. Britney Spears: An American pop music singer, songwriter, dancer actress and author.
2. WWE: World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE) is a publicly traded, privately controlled integrated media (focusing in television, Internet, and live events), and sports entertainment company dealing primarily in the professional wrestling industry, with major revenue sources also coming from film, music, product licensing, and direct product sales.
3. Paris Hilton: An American celebutante, businesswoman, singer, model, actress, author, and television personality.
4. Naruto: Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimotoanime adaptation. The main character, Naruto Uzumaki, is a loud, hyperactive, unpredictable adolescent ninja who constantly searches for recognition and aspires to become a Hokage, the ninja in the village acknowledged as the leader and the strongest of all.
5. Beyonce: An American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, music video director, actress, dancer, and fashion designer, the creative force and lead singer of the R&B girl group Destiny’s Child, the world’s best-selling female group of all time.
6. Lindsay Lohan: An American actress and pop music singer.
7. Rune Scape: The massive online adventure game by Jagex Ltd
8. Fantasy Football: A fantasy sports game in which participants (called “owners”) are arranged into a league.
9. Fergie: An American pop, hip hop, and R&B singer, songwriter, and actress.
10. Jessica Alba: An American actress, whose TV and film credits include Dark Angel, Honey, Sin City, Fantastic Four, Into the Blue, Idle Hands and 2007′s Good Luck Chuck.

Is Online Social Networking Really Worth It?

Published on May 29, 2007 in BBC News, Facebook, Google Adsense, Jade Power, Law, MySpace, Rory Cellan-Jones, Web Security, cybercrime, eBay, ethics, media, networking, news, online dating sites, social networking and technology. 3 Comments

fackbook friends listThe simple answer is “that depends on if you are Internet savvy or not�, but for the millions who log on to sites such as MySpace, the answer could be harder than that. Just today, BBC reported two contradicting stories that’ll both lead you to wonder whether “social networking sites are getting out of control� and need to be revisited by our beloved lawyers.

The first story was about a 40-something reporter covering the big dollar business of social networking and ending up with 700 people claiming to be his friends, many of whom he never knew existed. The second did not end all that well, here a 14 year old, also from the UK, vanished from her home possibly with the 18 year old she met on a chat-room. In one instance we discuss the school boy mentality of judging the person based on how many friends he/she had, while on the other we are confronted with the reality that things could be different if there were restricted access for kids and teen to predators preying on such sites in anonymity.

On the one hand we have “freedom of speech,� while on the other “security�. Instincts tell me that when such choices are posed, we humans (as the self-preservationists that we are) would choose security, but not in this case. Sites such as Facebook and MySpace continue to grow exponentially, while new networking sites pop-up each day promising more options with less hassle to meet  others online. One common feature in all these sites is the protectionist attitude of the sites to protect the secrecy and identification of its users.

The issue that bothers me most is, if you honestly represent yourself on a networking site where you “want to� meet others, why not be forthcoming and have your true identity verified like on PayPal or Google Adsense. Have your bank account or social-security verified, other users need not get this information, but ensures nonetheless (to the site offering the service) that you are really who you claim to be.

Considering that not all networking sites are as big as Google or eBay (which owns PayPal) to spend on resources to collect and protect your information, the dilemma for the user then would be the security of such information floating on the Internet, but that is up to the user to decide and demand of such sites (that profit, millions if not billions).

If the sites can provide for the privacy of the user information, adding a system to verify the identity of its users should then be a matter of adding two more line items in the contact form and spending a few million on securing the site.

Ultimately the decision must be made as to what is of importance to us, the privacy of the shady stalker who will eventually kidnap your child and kill them or the lives of our, huh.. “not-so-bright� youth!

End of ramble.

SIZE DOES MATTER: In the WEB 2.0 World

Published on March 13, 2007 in Blogosphere, Business networking, Digg, Link juice, MySpace, Web 2, Web 2.0, Web technology, eBay, funny news, networking, size does matter, social networking and web traffic. 1 Comment

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A says: What would you do if you had 5 wives, 25 children and 125 relatives?

B says: “Digg”.

C says: “Sell the population on eBay”.

Huh?? True, here’s how.

The Simpsons on MySpace or The Simpsons on YouTube

Published on March 8, 2007 in 24, American Idol, Blogosphere, Fox TV, Microsoft, MySpace, Prison Break, The Simpsons, Web 2.0, Web technology, YouTube, acquisitions, business planning, copyrights, digital media, media, news, technology, viral video and web traffic. 1 Comment

simpsonsCurrently, News Corp. owned Fox shows, such as 24 and Prison Break, are available on the News Corp. owned social networking portal, MySpace. There is speculation that the media giant is planning collaboration with multiple media companies to establish an online video platform to compete with YouTube.

MySpace is the no.1 social networking site in the U.K. and Australia and successfully tapped many other international markets. News Corp. may soon allow members to embed Fox TV shows and Fox videos, on their home pages in order to monetize by rapid increase in online video distribution.

New’s Corp has a wider range and richer content as compared to other large traffic internet sites like Google and Yahoo. MySpace is growing faster than comparable sites like Google, YouTube, Yahoo, Time Warner, Microsoft and Ebay. Its unique monthly audience of 61.5 million was up 73% from January, 2006, according to comScore.

Although Fox TV served YouTube with a subpoena earlier in January demanding the Google-owned viral video site disclose the identity of a user who uploaded copies of entire recent episodes of primetime series 24 and The Simpsons, I doubt if much will change because a huge chunk of YouTube’s popularity is based on copyrighted videos viewers get to watch for free.

The choice is yours for now, would you watch News Corp. owned Fox TV shows like The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Idol, etc. on News Corp. owned MySpace, or would you watch the same on YouTube?