Internet 2009 in numbers

Some very interesting stats on a Royal Pingdom post. Here’s a selection of those that particularly interest me:

Email

90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.
247 billion – Average number of email messages per day.
1.4 billion – The number of email users worldwide.
100 million – New email users since the year [...]

January 25th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Social media, stuff, technology | Leave a comment

Sponsored search results lead to malware

Susan Bradley writes in Windows Secrets (8 October 2009):

The ads served by Bing and Google along with your search results are linking more and more often to sites trying to infect your machine.

Neither Bing nor Google effectively prescreens these bogus advertisers, so it's up to us to detect and avoid them.

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October 8th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: technology | Leave a comment

Lego Mindstorms Rubik’s cube solver – via @timoreilly

via tiltedtwister.com

There’s video of this brilliant contraption. And building instructions – I can see where tomorrow might be going. The clever man who assembled this, Hans Anderson, has also built a sudoku solver using the Lego Mindstorms kit. I’m impressed.

Posted via web from Tony Watkins

August 28th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Fun, technology | Leave a comment