According to Alexa, MySpace is currently the 6th most popular site in the world - the five before it are Yahoo!, Google, MSN, Baidu.com and Yahoo! Japan. That’s pretty distinguished company to be keeping.

Although I’ve only published a
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Google is a little unhappy that IE 7 Beta 2’s search function defaults to MSN. Personally, I don’t know what the fuss is about. I’ve pretty much well tried to ignore the hooha over the last week; but it’s getting on my nerves a little, so for what it’s worth here’s my view. More noise to add to the fray :)
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70% of malware discovered during the first 3 months of 2006 was related to generating financial gain according to a recently published security report.
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Ah, Hallmark Holidays, bless them all, especially if you’re a retailer :). I’m not a great fan of the thinly veiled commercial exploitation of such events, which is rather odd given my chosen career, but business is business I guess.

In a recent survey of nearly 500 USA small businesses, 66%
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Ebay held its financial analyst conference in San Jose, California a couple of days ago and some interesting plans for PayPal, eBay and Skype were tabled along with first quarter performance figures.

eBay Europe is pegged to become a
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Claimed to be the first true estimate of the world’s online population, a research company has pegged the global online audience at 694 million people aged over 15 years.
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I love living in Australia, but we always seem to be on the tail end of getting access to new services released in the USA.

I’m pleased to say that MSN AdCenter, MS’s PPC (Pay Per Click) service, previously a pilot program and available only to USA merchants, is now accessible to Aussies - and I assume to merchants in most other countries as well.

I only just signed up
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If you’re considering selling, or buying for that matter, articles, video, audio or images; this may be of interest to you. Unveiled at AdTech, this new service looks quite interesting and has attracted some large players already.
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Through their “World Ahead” program, Intel has announced plans to spend over 1 billion dollars over the next 5 years to provide computer hardware, training and online connectivity in emerging markets.

They’re not just talking dialup connections
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If you develop web applications for a living, especially software for use on commercial sites and wonder why your sales aren’t what you hoped for, this may help you.

I’ve been searching for software for several ecommerce based projects recently and I notice many programmers and software houses making the same mistakes over and over again.
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