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What happened with the Internet in 2009? How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? This post will answer all of those questions and many more. Prepare for information overload, but in a good way.

We have used a wide variety of sources from around the Web. A full list of source references is available at the bottom of the post for those interested. We here at Pingdom also did some additional calculations to get even more numbers to show you.

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 before.
* 81% – The percentage of emails that were spam.
* 92% – Peak spam levels late in the year.
* 24% – Increase in spam since last year.
* 200 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 81% are spam).

Websites
* 234 million – The number of websites as of December 2009.
* 47 million – Added websites in 2009.

Web servers
* 13.9% – The growth of Apache websites in 2009.
* -22.1% – The growth of IIS websites in 2009.
* 35.0% – The growth of Google GFE websites in 2009.
* 384.4% – The growth of Nginx websites in 2009.
* -72.4% – The growth of Lighttpd websites in 2009.

Domain names
* 81.8 million – .COM domain names at the end of 2009.
* 12.3 million – .NET domain names at the end of 2009.
* 7.8 million – .ORG domain names at the end of 2009.
* 76.3 million – The number of country code top-level domains (e.g. .CN, .UK, .DE, etc.).
* 187 million – The number of domain names across all top-level domains (October 2009).
* 8% – The increase in domain names since the year before.

Internet users
* 1.73 billion – Internet users worldwide (September 2009).
* 18% – Increase in Internet users since the previous year.
* 738,257,230 – Internet users in Asia.
* 418,029,796 – Internet users in Europe.
* 252,908,000 – Internet users in North America.
* 179,031,479 – Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.
* 67,371,700 – Internet users in Africa.
* 57,425,046 – Internet users in the Middle East.
* 20,970,490 – Internet users in Oceania / Australia.

Social media
* 126 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).
* 84% – Percent of social network sites with more women than men.
* 27.3 million – Number of tweets on Twitter per day (November, 2009)
* 57% – Percentage of Twitter’s user base located in the United States.
* 4.25 million – People following @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher, Twitter’s most followed user).
* 350 million – People on Facebook.
* 50% – Percentage of Facebook users that log in every day.
* 500,000 – The number of active Facebook applications.

Images
* 4 billion – Photos hosted by Flickr (October 2009).
* 2.5 billion – Photos uploaded each month to Facebook.
* 30 billion – At the current rate, the number of photos uploaded to Facebook per year.

Videos
* 1 billion – The total number of videos YouTube serves in one day.
* 12.2 billion – Videos viewed per month on YouTube in the US (November 2009).
* 924 million – Videos viewed per month on Hulu in the US (November 2009).
* 182 – The number of online videos the average Internet user watches in a month (USA).
* 82% – Percentage of Internet users that view videos online (USA).
* 39.4% – YouTube online video market share (USA).
* 81.9% – Percentage of embedded videos on blogs that are YouTube videos.

Web browsers
* 62.7% – Internet Explorer
* 24.6% – Firefox
* 4.6% – Chrome
* 4.5% – Safari
* 2.4% – Opera
* 1.2% – Other

Malicious software
* 148,000 – New zombie computers created per day (used in botnets for sending spam, etc.)
* 2.6 million – Amount of malicious code threats at the start of 2009 (viruses, trojans, etc.)
* 921,143 – The number of new malicious code signatures added by Symantec in Q4 2009.

The point of a brand is to create an instantaneous association in people’s minds. The Nike ’swoosh’ brings to mind footwear, athleticism, and Michael Jordan. The Toyota ‘bull’ logo evokes images of compact cars, foreign business competition, and new ways of doing things. The name Budweiser reminds us of everything from the actual beer to those clever talking frogs, and the ‘wassup!’ advertisements.

These are cases of successful, memorable branding. Michael Jordan is retired from professional sports, the frogs haven’t been on television in years, and wassup has almost faded from day to day use in the American pop culture vocabulary. However, every one of these elements remains identifiable, and mentioning them to most people will get the typical, ‘oh yeah!’ response to memories of clever marketing, cementing the image of the brand in the viewers’ minds.

Branding is the creation of these memories. However, recollections of a product being indisputably linked with a particular name, image, or slogan can be a double-edged sword.

MCI Communications was one of the most successful challengers to the AT&T ‘Bell Monopoly’ consortium between the late 1960s and early 1980s. MCI managed to push through the breakup of the Bell coalition and allow new players to enter into the field of telecommunications. MCI pioneered many telecommunications innovations, such as Single Mode Fiber Optic Cable, when other companies were content to rely on existing standards. They were one of the first companies to provide the now standard idea of ‘in-network’ calling, where MCI customers got discounts when calling other MCI customers. MCI was one of the big, significant players in the telecom world, so why isn’t their name still synonymous with innovation?

Because it is now synonymous with the words Worldcom, Enron, and scandal.

In 1998, MCI merged with another company to become MCI Worldcom, launching a widespread televised and online advertising campaign featuring notable actors such as Sam Neil of Jurassic Park fame. The MCI brand became inextricably linked with the Worldcom brand. Then, on June 26 2002, the Securities Exchange Commission launched a full inquiry into reported auditing and financial irregularities, resulting in allegations of fraud. By July 21st, less than one month later, it was revealed that Worldcom stock was inflated by $11 billion, and the company entered into chapter 11 bankruptcy. MCI was ultimately bought out by Verizon, and the legacy of a once innovative telecom company was left in the same repository as Arthur Anderson, Enron, and the other big financial fraud stories of the early 21st century.

While this is an extreme example, it is a caution worth considering for anyone interested in making a brand name for his or her product in today’s market. The world is more connected, more informed, and more critical than ever, and while a legacy of good choices can create a strong brand, a reputation for poor or improper decisions can and will conspire to bury a once successful company forever.

Many times, no one can predict what will make a brand into a particular success or failure overnight. However, every company can take three common sense steps to protect their brand and the products it represents.

1. Promote a Quality Product

Quality talks – if a product works, then it has a certain degree of merit that puts it ahead of competition. If a company puts the time and effort to get a quality product onto the market and markets the brand in such a way that the actual qualities are stressed, people will remember.

As an example, Tylenol is an effective painkiller for post-surgical use. It is not a homeopathic remedy relying on word of mouth and supposed benefits, but has demonstrable, measurable effects on human pain and healing.

2. Be Informed About the Brand’s Use

Knowing not just what one is putting out, but what is being done with it in the market, is crucial to proper branding. To continue with the example of Tylenol, many advertisements stress that doctors frequently prescribe it, more than any other over the counter analgesic. Knowing that doctors were using their product allowed Tylenol to make a powerful claim and keep the information in people’s minds.
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3. Be Prepared to Take Responsibility for the Brand

As seen in the MCI case, scandal led to the irrevocable decline of a once-powerful brand. Conversely, Tylenol managed to take what could have been a public relations nightmare and came out stronger than ever as a result. When Tylenol executives found out that tampering had led to poison getting into the product supply, poisons that killed Tylenol consumers, they pulled every current Tylenol product from the shelves of stores. They investigated each of their production facilities, solved the problem, and then launched an informative campaign letting people know when and why it was safe to come back to their product. This disaster could have led to the death of the company, but the executives’ willingness to take responsibility and act, rather than covering up and denying fault, saved-a brand that is still powerful to this day.

Again, these are examples of extreme events. Only a tiny fraction of companies ever take their investments down the path of fraud, and almost no one will have to deal with their product becoming a poisonous vector. However, they illustrate the case that a brand is a powerful association for people to make, and that like any part of a business, it requires information and action in the proper degrees.

What Does This Mean to Me and My Website

Normal advertising just informs the consumer about a product and a company’s brand identity. With digital advertising, the consumer can be more involved in the brand image. In this interactive domain, a company can listen to consumers who make comments on their website or blog and act on negative feedback before it becomes uncontrollable. They can try out different advertising strategies to learn which products they should continue to develop and which new features a product should have.

Effective digital branding allows you to identify a singular position and establish your distinctive voice in the marketplace and incorporates all three of the above-mentioned branding points. You’ll be promoting a quality product. You’ll use social media strategies to keep informed about your brand’s image and you’ll take responsibility for your brand, to guide and shape it to its best advantage.

Branding takes time and thought. Digital branding takes time, thought and an interchange with your consumers. Engaging your customers in your brand in a relevant way is the key to successful online branding.

In order to succeed and combat the competitive online world, you need to maintain a good reputation online. A good reputation does not only require a good website design but a lot more to build confidence, to grow sales and ultimately leads to better revenues and higher profitability.

In today’s Internet buzz nasty rumors, wrong opinions and incorrect news spread rapidly and if not taken timely action to handle the news properly, you may face a serious threat to your online business and credibility.

Here are some simple measures you can take to maintain your website’s reputation:

1. Respond to customers
Being open and responsive to customers is an important part of creating a positive impression and managing your website’s reputation. If someone asks you a question, answer it there or through e-mail. Be quick in addressing your customer issues before the word spreads.

2. Answer the negative comments humbly
Be real, not everyone is satisfied with your work and services. If these people are among the ones spreading negative comments about you for whatever reason like delayed service or unfriendly attitude, answer them instantly to terminate the issue right there!
Be very polite when putting your point of view in front of such people and you’ll sure succeed in saving your reputation. Answering negative remarks modestly can be a great way of turning a bad situation into positive one.

3. Create official online profiles
Create your own platform for users to share their experiences they’ve had with you. Create your own profiles and websites complete with the kind of information you actually want to be available about you. Let users communicate with each other and comment about your products or services, whether positive or negative.

4. Report stolen material from you
It’s very well possible that online competitors may steal material from your website to increase their ranking and traffic. This may lose your credibility among your users, making you “not-so-unique” in their eyes. To control such theft, you can report their site through strict action.

5. Write blogs
Writing blog posts are extremely effective in promoting your business. Through blog reviews and blog comments, you even increase your chance of getting high traffic volumes to your website.
If you or any of the experts in your business have important knowledge like instructions, guidelines, tips and trick that can be useful for the users, share them through writing blog posts, let say you write blog for “basic tips for web design”. This will greatly enhance your online reputation.

6. Optimize For Search Engines
Majority of the internet users accept results from Google searches or any other search engine as highly credible. Therefore, to maintain a good website reputation, don’t forget to optimize your website. You can consult professional search engine optimization services for this purpose.

7. Using the social media
Setting up social media networks in order to maintain your website’s online reputation is a great thought. To begin with, set up your profiles on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace. Once you have your accounts setup, you will need to do the following things:

- Create a complete profile by putting all the information
- Engage and Interact with the members
- Monitor comments for both positive and negative remarks

You might have spend good time and money for your website design and building up your website’s good reputation, so it’s important not to let anyone drag it through the mud. Follow the above given tips to maintain your positive reputation among the online community.

Tension control bolts (TC bolt) is a heavy duty bolt that always used in steel frame construction. The tc bolts is formally recognized by the AISC (American Institute of Steel Construction) and the RCSC (Research Council on Structural Connections) as an approved installation method.

The short description of the look of tc bolts is the head usually domed and not designed to be driven. The end of the shank has a spline on it which is engaged by a special power wrench which prevents the bolt from turning while the nut is tightened. When the appropriate torque is reached the spline shears off.

This Tension Control bolting system has quickly become the world’s most widely used method of tensioning high strength structural bolts likes bridge, highway, power water treatment, marine construction, etc. The ease of use and economic benefits has provided tens of thousands of projects with consistent, reliable, and economical steel connections.

The key features of the Tension Control assembly include;
• Cost effective, one operator, single sided installation
• Lightweight, non-impacting installation tools
• Visual inspection
• Pre-certified, matched and tested assemblies
• Reliable and efficient bolt tensioning
• Bolt tension is not dependent on operator skill or tool settings

Right now business process are evolving and growth, so that’s why we need for expansion in all fields of business concern. We must stopped thinking about the conventional methods to improving our businesses
and we have to start make any research about the advanced concepts, which will help to growing the business.

There are lot of businesses online where people make a lot of money without any kind of hassle and much of struggle. The internet technologies have made a great revolution in all minds of people, making them sit back relax and do the job. We just have to get a PC and an internet connection to start your work without a tax or any other legal formalities.

As an addition, internet also helps to support our business, which is currently running without a trendy way of approach. It is simply meant that one can actually find several unconventional and new trends of making business online and growing the same in a very effective way.

All our needs is just create a direct marketing list that would be very effective to help in managing and organizing huge lists of contacts rather than manual management. This is very simple and effective because, managing manual accounts would lead to loss of important data at any time. Apart from this, it would also lead to ineffective management and time-delays, which would greatly affect the business that is currently being watched upon.

When the business is growing, people cannot afford to delay upon the projects and schedules. Everything needs to be completed at the exact stipulated time by some way. This can be possible only by the usage of online direct marketing list. This is an effective concept of maintaining a huge list of customers and people who are your perfectly targets. This will also help you in a very great way to save a lot on your money and make the business very much effective.

Doing this, you would be able to avoid advertisements, which cost a lot for your products. You can make the advertisement of your product very effective and economical by the usage of direct marketing, by which you can directly market your products to the respective customer with all your custom designs so that the customer would have sufficient time to browse and explore through your products and select the one that suits his/her budget. With the direct marketing list, you can also save all the contacts in an organized form so that redundancy would not affect your search. The whole concept of business marketing can be easily dealt with the effective usage of direct marketing list. All that we needs to do is to gather the customer contacts in a very organized way and start the marketing directly.

Yesterday I met Jacob; he’s one of my friends who become an activist of Green Organization. We discuss a lot of issue regarding being “Green”. He told me to being Green; the first step that we personally can do is to get used to for ourselves to do the action of becoming green. Because from the action that we took, it will automatically affect to other people around us, like our family, friends, etc. The example small action that we can do are reduced the used of plastic bag and change it by using paper bag, planting a tree around the house, and many more.

And then, I asked him that is it possible also for the company or industrial can also being Green? In my opinion, if the company wants to get Green profile, they have to spend some extra cost on it, and in this kind economic situation, I think it’s not wise for the company or industrial to spend any cost for it. He’s laughing, and then he explained to me about waste recovery system. Basically waste recovery system is a system on how to process from waste thing becoming useful thing.

In many industrial areas, there’s a lot of waste solvent produced every minutes, and it must be disposed properly, otherwise EPA and other government agencies likes his organization will not let the industrial just pour the waste solvent into the drain, which can pollute the water and ground. By considering it, they are now tried to implement solvent recovery system using the right equipment, which it will greatly reduce the volume of hazardous waste generated on site, resulting in lower EPA compliance costs and less regulatory paperwork to complete.

The benefits of implementing solvent recovery are
1. Cost can be reducing on solvent purchasing. Because solvent is no longer disposed of in mass quantities after one use, less needs to be purchased.
2. There is also a reduce cost on the waste solvent disposal. Lots of people don’t realize that solvent recovery can reduce waste disposal costs by upwards of 95%.
3. Community good will and maintaining a profile of corporate responsibility are better assured. Between government regulations, public stakeholder intrusion, and other exterior forces, your business is under a lot of scrutiny. It does not operate in a vacuum. Improving your relationship with your neighbors gives your company a better reputation.

The time goes by and it’s night already. We ended our discussion and I directly went back home. All of the discussion makes me have a better understanding about being green and how it can be apply in personal or in company. Thank Jacob for the sharing; wish we have another time to continue on.

When starting to make investment on gold, the common question is “what kind of gold should you buy?” That question is always asked by those who want to starting out in the investing world as gold investors. But, most of them are disappointed when they find out that there is no single answer for that question, there are so many right answers for that question. So, to answer properly, a second question needs to be returned to you: “Why do you want to buy gold?”

If you want to just get in on the price movement of gold, so you can get by with just acquiring bullion coins. But, if you want to preserve your asset base for the long haul, and you are worried about controlling your capital, then you should look to pre-1933 European and American gold coins as well as the bullion gold coins. The reason for the pre-1933 gold coins is that the US government has, since the 1930s, viewed these older gold coins as historic pieces, rather than just plain money, so they allow much more safety as investments than straight gold bullion.

The next question is about when you should buy gold. I could be smart and tell you to buy it when you need it, but you just can’t use the same strategy and approach to buying gold that you would with stocks or even real estate investments. It isn’t a matter of timing. It’s about first of all believing whether or not you need to own gold as part of your portfolio. If the answer to that question is a firm “yes,” then what are you waiting for? Go out there and invest in gold. Then it becomes a matter of not “when” but “what.”

A related thought regarding the timing of purchasing gold has to do with waiting for the necessity of buying gold to come up. This is the same as saying that you will just wait for the house to catch fire before buying a fire extinguisher. If you wait for a crisis to occur, you will be stuck with the rest of the panicking herd, shooting up demand and dropping the supply. You’d be stuck paying higher prices than if you made your purchases based upon when you were ready.

The thing about gold, and why it is insurance for your asset protection, is that it is essentially the only main asset you will own that is not on someone else’s liability column. That means that the value of your gold is not dependent on someone else’s ability to pay (such as with bonds and in some cases stocks.). For this reason, gold is the bedrock of your wealth building.

In this summer holiday, I was planning to have a family holiday. We choose Bali as our destination. Because it’s a nice place to visit, the beach, the culture, the food and the people are amazing. We can see their custom religion, temples, tastes much kind of food and playing on the beach watching the sunrise or sunset. I think it would become a perfect holidays for our family.

So for the first preparation, we are looking our Dockers Portside Luggage Set, Silver. We divide the luggage as it functions, like carry on bag and suitcase. Carry on bag usually small and will be used to put any important thing like passport, id, wallet, key, hand phone, travel guide, etc. The suitcase usually quite big and will be used to store any things that we can use it later, like clothes, shoes, bathing peripherals, etc.

Finish with the luggage. And the next thing we do is preparing all of the stuff for the kid’s. Kid’s likes to do some travelling, but sometimes, they will get bored if they just sitting and do nothing until we arrive at the destination. So to fill their time, we bring the Nintendo DS, because this is their favorite things and will keep their busy, so they won’t get bored and yelling.

For the rest, I already take care of it. We already booked Hotel for a week and also we already hire a travel guides including car to take us around Bali and explained all about it. Wish this will become our best family holiday ever…..

Looking to get a great return in General Exhibition ? In good times or bad, it is always wise to seek those marketing tools that will give us more for our marketing dollar. When it comes to promotional giveaways getting the best return on our marketing investment means finding products that will give us more ad impressions for our marketing dollar. To find these kinds of promotional products we will first need to understand what characteristics to look for in a product while developing our promotional idea.

In any general exhibitions, the best advertising tools is using trade show booths, why?? Because the exhibitors can use it to showcase products and services that they want to sell. In order to make it more attractive, we can combine it with table skirts rather than we use ordinary table to show our products and services. Banner stands is one of important tool also, because we can put it everywhere, and it will directly drag the customers to visit our booth. And if we rent a quite space in there, it’s best to use pipe and drape, so we can divide the booths for any different function.

With this understanding in mind we should adjust our thinking when budgeting for a promotional product. Make sure our focus remains on investment return and not just on price or quantity.

You have to plan your job search before you start with it. There are many things that you need to consider before you get started with your job search. One of the most important things that you need an answer for is relocation. You have to ask yourself if you are ready to relocate for a better job opportunity. Relocation is, now a day, getting very normal for the job seekers. If they find good job openings at any other geographical area then they are ready to shift. Thus before you start with your job hunt you have to decide whether you wish to continue the job search at your location or you are willing to relocate provided you get a good opportunity.

A. Harrison Barnes, the one who has created and now is the owner of the best job search engine in the market Hound.com, suggests every job seeker that looking for job openings outside the boundaries of your area is very beneficial for you. This will allow you access to all the job openings that are available in the job market throughout the state or the country or even in the throughout the world. You will have many options in your hand to choose from and thus understanding the one that suits you perfectly grab it for the advancement of your own career. Just remember that the choice is all yours. It will also act as a boom to your career if you are successful to grab a good job opportunity. You will be able to reach your career goals and ambitions.

You need to analyze some points that will help you get the answer to the question of relocation. Your family is the most important part of your life. Thus you have to decide how your decision of relocation will affect them. If your family depends on you then relocation can be a big problem and especially when the family consists of elderly members. You need to remain close with them; you never know when they need you beside them. Thus it is suggested by A. Harrison Barnes, who has been in the industry of recruitment past many years that you need to take care of every family issue that you can face on your relocation.

If you have children at home then you even need to think about their schooling. Your decision of relocation will definitely affect their regular studies and also will affect in their life. You have to make sure that they are comfortable enough with your decision of shifting to another geographical area says A. Harrison Barnes.

The next thing that you need to evaluate is the new living arrangements that you will have to deal with. You have to see how much help you can get from your employer for relocation. There are many employers who provide help to their employees by paying for house searching trips or even pay for the place for you to live. Some employers even provide their employees with temporary housing till the time you find yourself a permanent housing. Thus make sure of the help that your company provides you while relocation says A. Harrison Barnes.

Once you have decided and are ready to relocate to a different place then you are ready for your job hunt. It is suggested that you register with a good job search portal that will help you get the best job outside your boundaries. One such job search portal is A. Harrison Barnes’s Hound.com. They have a huge database that includes jobs from all over the world and thus their service will help you get job at your preferred location. The team of Hound.com will also suggest you with different geographical location that will suit your criteria and will bring with good job opportunities.

It is also suggested that you can make the best use of your network that includes not only your family and friends but even the acquaintances that you have made till date and also the Career Network of alumni at your university or college. They will provide you with career advice along with your job search. They will advice you with every detail that you require to know about the community that you are soon to join – transportation, housing and entertainment. Thus make sure that you take their help in every possible way recommends A. Harrison Barnes.

You can even determine the cost of living and the salary with the help of salary calculators and cost of living calculators. This will help you determine whether you can afford your cost of living at the new place with the salary that will be provided to you by the employer. Thus do your research well before shifting.