Coming of age with Blogs !

One way to keep it up with the latest trends in technology is to keep browsing the web and study, know a few things about it, if you do get interested in, dig deeper into it. Nothing is impossible these days.

I remember the first time, when I started with Blogs way back in 2003-04, in fact I did even registered with one blog, though conveniently misplacing its details, like an abandoned property. It was fun with Blogger, when Google purchased it in 2003, I seldom could find any time after that, and this led to my neglect towards
Blogs or someone might even accuse me of a un-blogger like an attitude, but I will strongly refute such an allegation, given my tight schedules at that time, and I will enter my defense with a not guilty plea in case of such a scenario, though I still don't have enough time, but Blogging is my priority these days.


Google was still fighting it out and it was a good competitor at that time as far as I can remember, of what it is today. Knocking off the traditional giants like Microsoft and Yahoo. And now with all the Networking sites lighting up the LCD's etc. trends are predicted to further migrate towards new types of technologies. Technology in our times is faster than anything else, even the makers of these technologies often surprise themselves to see all the things happening so fast, one could have researched and developed Nano-technology, but the market trends speak different language, they depend heavily on the user-trends, the way way user reacts to it, the way it will sway leaving everything behind.

One way to keep up with such trends is to keep browsing the web for new technologies, know a few things about it, if you do get interested in, dig deeper into it. Nothing is impossible these days.

But changing templates can be a rude business sometimes, I started with the good old template of the yesteryear's on the Blogger. And it has come a long way since then, I am a novice when it comes to Web Designing, but needed to with stand the test of time, so had to work with it. I tried a hand at it but could only manage to change its color, I will come up with some interesting sites which I have found in course of my small template hunt, which should help us in our ordeal in my next post.

What are people actually doing on the web ?

This is a news story running on the popular Web space Yahoo by none other than Melanie Lidner at Forbes.com, the news report delves deeper into the latest trends in terms of peoples interests on the web and whats actually happening inside the popular Web World. According to the news report which credited the Analysis to ComCore, a webdata tracker, Americans spent a whopping 302 billion minutes online only the last month.

Now these figures are only about USA, what about whole lot of other people from China, which recently overtook in terms of density, the EU, Australia, then Asia Pacific, India etc., Now if take into account all these factors the market is expanding at a relatively faster pace than we might think. And among all of the industries User generated data is making the kill.

An in depth detailed analysis done by the site has this incredible figures to disclose.

Google, as we all know, attracted some 127 millon unique visitors last month, a 62% more of what it attracted three years ago at 76 million UV's, 7 million more than the next nearest popular web giant Yahoo.

Notice that there are other search engines too, which are not taken into account here. And what about those who directly hit the links without using the search engine. There is a point here to be noted, How many times Have I used the search engine today, 5 times, 10 times, in all of my browsing time today. It is a very less percentage of time that I spent browsing the Internet. If we take into account all these factors, the average usage time will be some where around 302 billion minutes only for America, leave alone the rest of the world.

The news story focused on the trends in the Web world where companies have no other alternatives other than to do more research to know what people actually are doing on the web.

What with the huge influx of traffic by the video media based YouTube and Social Networking sites such as LinkedIn, MySpace and more, people are moving more towards online social forums and blogs to look for discussions and information.

The news story also reported that the almost unknown, Glam Media, an advertiser-supported collection of Blogs and other Women related content Catapulted to 18th spot, now that is like, What All The Women Actually Are Doing On The Web.

User generated data is the in thing today, with more and more people have stormed the web world. The Web World is all the more focused on the User trends online.

What Are People Actually Doing On The Web ?