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Socialize This – V1.1

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

I just updated the Plugin Socialize This in regards to a Private/Public function and variable error. Basically I forgot to check how the plugin worked in a PHP4 environment.

Apologies for the inconvenience caused.

Thank you everyone who commented regarding this problem, I appericate your assistance :)

Internet Statistics – April 2009 (and IE6 Death Date)

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Overall April was quite an eventful month for the OS and Browser wars. On the OS front, Windows 7 (Win7) release candidate was made available to the public, which has received quite a positive response. Microsoft also started advertising how cost effective windows machines are in their “I’m a PC” advertisement campaign.

Browser wise, webmaster have been encouraged by Google to inform their IE6 users about the alternative browser available and the disadvantages of IE6. The effect this has had on IE6 users is debatable, but overall IE6 is slowly disappearing.

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Internet Statistics – March 2009

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Browser Statistics

march-09_browser-trendIE8 has been released, but unfortunately will not be a high priority until around the 20th April 2009.

Biggest Rise: Safari (3.09%)
Biggest Fall: Other (-2.82%)

OS Statistics

march-09_os-averageWinXP is still very dominant, but is losing ground to Vista and other OS’s.

Biggest Rise: Vista (0.31%)
Biggest Fall: WinXP (-0.39%)

Internet Penetration

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Latin America/Caribbean and North America had the same increase in Internet Penetration in March 2009. Could the gradual increase in Internet Penetration be a sign that the recession is soon to subside?

Internet Usage

march-09_internet-usage-trend

Internet Usage stayed relatively constant in relation the previous month, even though there was an increase in internet penetration.

New iPod Shuffle

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

View Apple’s iPod Shuffle Website | Buy it on Amazon

I’m not sure what to make of this, either someone at Apple has gone crazy or they released it’s next wave of geniuses.

The Specifications can be found here.

Related Links

Future Stuff : 4GB iPod Shuffle in the works?
SNL Envisioned New iPod Shuffle in 2005
Apple’s redesigned iPod shuffle hits 4GB, talks to you

Internet Statistics – February 2009

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Browser Statistics

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IE6 is dying slowly; maybe it’s time we drop support for it.

feb-09-browser-trends

Biggest Rise: Other (2.29%)
Biggest Fall: Safari (-2.45%)  Possibly due to new version of Safari, or that a hacker said Apple Safari is ‘easy pickings’.

OS Statistics

feb-09-os-average

WinXP is still a very dominant. Maybe Windows 7 will be its downfall.

feb-09-os-trendsBiggest Rise: Mac (0.9%)
Biggest Fall: WinXP (-0.51%)

Internet Penetration

feb-09-internet-penetration-trends

Latin America/Caribbean internet penetration has grown by 4.5%

Internet Usage

feb-09-internet-usage-trends

Asians seem to have a high internet usage and is expect to grow even more!

feb-09-internet-usage-averagesRelated Links

W3C Browser Information
Global Market Share Statistics
Internet Traffic Report
The ISC Domain Survey

*This data is an average from approximately 25 differently sources (Some listed above). Feel free to use the graphs and pie charts; however a link back would be appreciated.