Homeless Man Builds 5-Million-Dollar Website

Imagine yourself on the street, with no money in your pocket…

Depressed and discouraged?
Not Terry Hladyak, a Ukrainian immigrant who’ve found himself homeless in a few weeks after coming to Canada.

Terry used free Web access in local libraries to pull himself out of the street and make a good buck.

So, here is the recipe from a homeless immigrant:
1. make a website and divide it to 5,000,000 computer pixels
2. start selling advertising space for $1 and $2 per pixel
3. promise to GIVE $2.5 MILLION (!) to charities if you make $5 MILLION (!) in 5 years
4. make first money, buy a laptop, rent a place to live, and keep going :- )

More: Oddissimo, Toronto Sun, MakeMeShare

2009 - the social year

It's been the year of the social web, with billions of people finding new ways to communicate everything from their campaign to make Rage Against the Machine the Christmas number one, to their fury at repression in Iran.

More: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/12/2009_the_social_year.html

It's not what you know any more, but how you `feel'

On Internet, average Joe sees his view on climate as equal to the `so-called experts'.
The notion that the everyman's wisdom can trump formal training is a powerful one, especially in the United States.

Read more: http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/copenhagensummit/article/739940--it-s-not-what-you-know-any-more-but-how-you-feel

Social media challenges social rules

"Behaviours developed for the industrial age simply cannot cope with the new possibilities for information sharing."

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8352295.stm

Six Million More Seniors Using the Web than Five Years Ago

While people 65 and older still make up less than 10 percent of the active Internet universe, their numbers are on the rise. In the last five years, the number of seniors actively using the Internet has increased by more than 55 percent, from 11.3 million active users in November 2004 to 17.5 million in November 2009. Among people 65+, the growth of women in the last five years has outpaced the growth of men by 6 percentage points.

Read more: http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/six-million-more-seniors-using-the-web-than-five-years-ago/

You Can Take It With You: Future Trends in Media

While still in the early stages of a digital media revolution, the consumer has entered an age of enlightenment with expanded options for devices, content, and schedule. The consumer has responded with expanded use of those media options. But changes in technology, regulation, pricing, content distribution deals, etc., will complicate predicting the future growth (and future winners).

Read more: http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/you-can-take-it-with-you-future-trends-in-media/

Asian Americans Most Active Users of Online Banking

Millions of Americans enjoy the convenience offered by online banking. But one demographic group in the U.S. seems to have embraced this service more than others according to new research from Nielsen Claritas. Asian Americans are significantly more likely to bank online compare to non-Asian households, with 75.3 percent banking online compared to 67.4 percent of non-Asians.

Read more: http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/asian-americans-most-active-users-of-online-banking/

Wikipedia about the Web

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by a broad array of electronic and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast array of information resources and services, most notably the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic mail.

More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

Survey: Internet use grows fast among Latinos

Latino adults are increasing their use of the Internet faster than other ethnic groups, according to a new survey from the Pew Hispanic Center and the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

Between 2006 and 2008, the percentage of adult Latinos in the U.S. who used the Internet grew to 64 percent from 54 percent, according to the survey. Among whites, Internet use increased to 76 percent from 72 percent. Blacks saw the smallest overall gain — two percentage points to 63 percent.

Latinos who were born in the U.S. were much more likely to go online than those born outside the U.S. This gap persisted even after accounting for differences in education levels, household income and English proficiency, the report said.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/12/22/financial/f054658S38.DTL#ixzz0aVeednDu

Internet Users Now Spending an Average of 13 Hours a Week Online

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new Harris Poll finds that adult Internet users are now spending an average of 13 hours a week online. Of course, people’s usage varies greatly; one in five (20%) of adult Internet users are online for only two hours or less a week while one in seven (14%) are spending 24 or more hours a week online.


Read more: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Internet-Users-Now-Spending-bw-2050705387.html?x=0&.v=1

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