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Lunar Eclipse Tuesday morning!
Did you see it? It was awesome. :)
Google to Double TV Ad Inventory
Augest 29, 2007
In the next week or two, Google will double the amount of TV inventory it's making available to advertisers.
The company's trial program to manage television ads seems to have gotten off to a slow start. Our Google source said the minimum spend for the beta program is a modest (for TV) $10,000 a month, and just 50 clients have tested the system so far. We don't know whether the new inventory is coming from existing partners EchoStar and Astound Cable or from new sources. Google announced the trial in April.
Google's rumored foray into managing television ads with its AdWords platform has entered the next phase with a limited trial program over EchoStar's Dish Network across the U.S. and Astound Cable, a local cable system in the Bay Area.
The tests, which were spotted last month, were announced last night by Google and EchoStar. A small group of advertisers are participating in the test, and more will be added as it progresses, expected to be in a "relatively short time" according to Keval Desai, director of product management, Google TV advertising.
Google has been testing ways to extend its AdWords ad management platform beyond the search and contextual ads that are its bread and butter. Recent moves offline into print and radio have had limited success, while online tests include online video and in-game ads.
Desai said Google sees a move to manage TV ads as a natural extension of its platform, especially as television becomes more interactive, and advertisers begin to demand from TV more of the qualities that make Google successful online.
"TV is becoming like the Web. You have audience segmentation; users care about relevant messaging; advertisers care about aggregating and audience efficiently and getting measurements on how they're messaging with you; and inventory owners like to monetize their viewership, even if it's a small viewership," Desai said. "We're able to have some positive impact on those problems on the Internet side, so we expect to have a similar impact on the television side."
Under the system, EchoStar and Astound will make inventory available to Google advertisers across all channels and dayparts. If the inventory is sold out, the operators will make more available as needed, Desai said. Pricing will be by CPM, under the usual AdWords auction model, with inventory from each provider available in the same marketplace. Ads can be scheduled to appear as early as a day after uploading, he said.
Targeting can be done by network, daypart, region or demographic of the network. No targeting will be done to individuals or households, so users should not worry about the security of their account or usage data collected by the provider, Desai said.
Advertisers must supply their own video file to upload, though Google can recommend partners to assist in creating the ad. Any standard format the network accepts can be used, though typically the :30 spot will be the standard. The file is uploaded to the "head end" TV service providers, who will insert the ads via their usual process, he said.
Tracking will be done via set-top boxes, with reporting to include aggregate impressions (with no individual- or household-specific data), as well as data on how long an ad was viewed.
5 Point Strategy Guide for Creative Backing creation SEO style
This post is an outline of the methods for the more creative SEOs out there - the article marketers and bloggers seeking to build powerful, business sustaining links - who have perhaps overlooked some crucial publishers and communities to target with awesome content.
1) Know and Target Your Most Profitable Keywords
2) Conduct a Link Hub Research Dig
3) Sort By PR and Links Out (Co-Citations)
4) Determine Your Strategic Options: Social Media, Directories, Blogs, Publishers, Forums
5) GO! GO! GO!
1) Know and Target Your 3 (for now) Most Profitable Keywords
This link building process begins - as your online marketing efforts always should - with your most profitable keywords. It's likely that these are your most competitive keywords too - the words you used in your URL, the titles of your site pages and in the link text of the articles you've been writing and distributing and links and PPC ads you've been buying.
The process I outline here can certainly stretch to encompass ALL of your keywords, from the top of the big head to the very tippy-tip of your long tail. I'm not currently adept at managing and manipulating enormous amounts of data and for my purposes I find that limitations - like digging in on only a couple of the most important keywords - give me far more traction and forward momentum.
I say know and target 3 keywords because this will give you plenty of data to start a two-three week project at a couple hours or so a day. Target more if you want, but if you lean on the creative side like me it's important to maintain momentum on projects. Aiming at just 3, or 2 or even 1, will simplify the process for your first run through and will get you to spend more time focusing on the important hub sites in the communities that influence rankings for your target keywords.
2) Conduct a Link Hub Research Dig
This is an exciting part for me because of the tool I use to support my dig. Nothing beats hands-on rankings investigations, but these won't show you as efficiently whose links are actually affecting rankings right now.
I use a for-pay windows-based program for my hub/authority digs. Before plunking down your hard-earned cash for a hub finder I'd suggest working with Aaron Wall's hub finder, currently housed on his LinkHounds site.
Hub Finder on LinkHounds http://www.linkhounds.com/hub-finder/hubfinder.php
I'm not as familiar with Wall's hub finder as the tool I use, but in conducting a search on his I found it did help identify the sites that link out to more than one of the top 10 sites for your search term.
It has several posted mirrors in case Wall's has reached its maximum queries for the day (it uses Google's API and is limited to 1,000 queries a day):
http://webseodesign.com/seo-tool-chest/hub-finder.php
http://www.emeraldcoastentrepreneur.com/Hubfinder/hubfinder.php
http://www.cyclelicio.us/hubfinder/
When I search for hubs I "open up the flood gates" and investigate the maximum listings for my tool (top 30 sites for a term) and the minimum number of links to sites in the top 30 (which is 2). This means I've got tons of back link data for those top 30 sites and will see the hubs that helped these top sites achieve those rankings.
I'd suggest that you conduct as wide a search as possible at first with whatever tool you're using. Over time you can narrow down your searches as you experiment to find that sweet spot for the term or niche you're developing links in.
3) Sort By PR and Links Out (Co-Citations)
So once you've got 100, 200 or even 1,000 sites in your spread sheet you can start analyzing and organizing them.
First I list my sites by PR - though this metric alone is NOT an indicator of a good link - and then by number of "co-citations," which is how many of the top 30 sites for my keyword this given site links to. All the sites that didn't return PR get cut. Depending on how many sites I'm analyzing, sites with PRs of 1, 2, or even 3 get cut too. When you're faced with analyzing 1,000 sites and you're spending your clients' money on your time you've got to draw lines using some kind of metric :)
That said, if there's a site with an interesting URL that has a very low PR I will check it out. It could be a new community site or blog that could be valuable for link distribution, and often the fresher, newer sites are more likely to respond to your emails.
The other important metric of course is how many of the top sites each of these hub sites link to. If there's a low-PR site that happens to link to a bunch of the top sites then there's a reasonable chance that this site would be a good one to get a link from. Further, if we're talking about an uncompetitive keyword then there's more reason to throw the PR metric out the window as a starting guide.
Once you've trimmed the list at the bottom you can trim it at the top too by cutting out Google Answers and all the DMOZ clones out there. You'll find lots of unreachable-for-now type of sites like CNN and others that you needn't worry yourself with at this stage of the game. A link from a major site would be awesome, but for now you should focus on the easily attainable!
4) Determine Your Strategic Direction: Content Creation, Link Requests, Link Purchases, Content Distribution
By this time you should start seeing some interesting link possibilities emerge. For one thing social media sites will start to appear - you'll start to see the ones that may have some bearing on the keyword(s) you're trying to rank for. Give these their own list and make time to set up profiles in them and see about finding a few friends within them.
You'll also see directories that appear to have bearing on the rankings for your keyword too. Mark these down as potential submission points and places to potentially buy a link. Some sites sell links and even regular banner ads. If it's a niche site it could well be worth buying some actual advertising!
Finally, the blogs, forums and other relevant and influential content publishers will emerge, and these are the sites that I focus on with my creative efforts.
For me, the content sites, blogs and forums are a creative revelation on a number of different levels. As a writer these sites show me what kinds of content will earn me publication or links from their sites. They're also a sneak peek at what kinds of content are most relevant to this demographic (as sliced by the target keyword). Whether I'm creating content and requesting links or creating content and requesting publication with link attribution, this list of sites helps me understand what kinds of content (how-tos, opinion, entertainment) work for this space.
Further, these hub sites are often focal points for communities, or are even forums themselves. This kind of a link dig is an awesome starting point for beginning your "conversation marketing" and community outreach because it reveals the influential community sites for a given keyword.
5) GO! GO! GO!
Write articles! Submit to publishers! Write tailored, custom link requests to blogs! Join forums, answer questions and write about your answers! Conduct interviews for targeted link exchanges! Buy links! Go! Go! Go!
It's easy to get caught in the analysis paralysis of link digging. It's exciting to find 100 potential sites to link to you. Excitement is great but I've had a hard time getting grocery stores to let me buy food with excitement alone. The point of this hub identification exercise is to better target your link building efforts on the sites that will make a difference to your rankings. Good luck, God bless, build links!
ComScore Releases Search Engine Rankings For July
2007-08-21
comScore, a company that measures the digital world, has released their monthly qSearch analysis of the internet activity across the major search engines.
comScore reports that in July 2007, Google Sites ranked as the top core search engine with 55.2 percent share of searches among the top five search engines. Yahoo! Sites ranked second with 23.5 percent, followed by Microsoft Sites (12.3 percent), Ask Network (4.7 percent) and Time Warner Network (4.4 percent).
In July 2007, Google Sites led the market with nearly 5.5 billion search queries (this was up 2.4 percent versus June and 64 percent versus year ago). Yahoo! Sites was up 0.8 percent to 2.3 billion searches. Microsoft Sites was up 2.8 percent to 1.2 billion searches during July 2007, and Ask Network was up 2.9 percent to 462 million searches. Time Warner Network was actually down 0.9 percent to 436 million. comScore reports that Google benefits disproportionately from affiliate searches and multi-tab searches that help raise its share of core searches relative to the share reported in qSearch 1.0.
July U.S. Expanded Search Rankings
According to comScore, they will publicly report the number of search queries conducted in the expanded search universe for the top 10 search properties. In July 2007, Google Sites ranked as the top property in the expanded search universe with 6.6 billion searches, driven by Google (5.5 billion) and YouTube/All Other (1.1 billion). Yahoo! Sites ranked second with 2.5 billion, followed by Microsoft Sites (1.3 billion), Time Warner Network (959 million), and Fox Interactive Media (587 million).
comScore has been leading the way when it comes to measuring the search landscape"one thats heavily affected by social media and social networking (Web 2.0). Theyre trying to adapt to this new search landscape by upgrading how they define the search landscape.
Top 300 and 200 keywords used on the Internet for the end of August.
1. Headers defined
Nos. : Position according to popularity
Count : Number of sightings of keyword in database.
Keyword : The keyword itself
2. The top 300 surge report
These are the top 300 queries from the last 48 hours, which
represents the complete queries from the largest Metacrawlers
on the web (Metacrawler/Dogpile etc..) for the last 48 hours.
Nos. Count Keyword
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1 5201 myspace
2 3561 play game
3 3540 google
4 3487 yahoo
5 3262 ebay
6 3167 play games
7 2879 myspace.com
8 2455 youtube
9 2288 mapquest
10 2101 yahoo.com
11 2094 game cheats for ps2
12 1942 baby boy names
13 1939 proxy https
14 1770 youporn
15 1567 girls
16 1534 music lyrics
17 1517 free radio stations
18 1514 facebook
19 1407 craigslist
20 1402 https hotmail
21 1370 free lady sonia
22 1358 finding dental care
23 1260 you tube
24 1211 funny videos
25 1159 hotmail.com
26 1144 paris hilton
27 1110 britney spears
28 1096 yahoo mail
29 1084 games cheat
30 1079 hotmail
31 1014 hurricane flossie
32 1011 dictionary
33 990 fergie
34 971 free english course
35 950 gospel music lyrics
36 936 jose offerman
37 927 jenna jameson
38 925 walmart
39 907 home video
40 891 msn
41 884 pictures of cats
42 884 aol.com
43 879 local newspaper
44 855 hot
45 844 west nile fever symptoms
46 830 wikipedia
47 827 home depot
48 821 mattel recall
49 819 www.myspace.com
50 818 mary louise parker
51 813 my space
52 812 job nigeria
53 798 umbrella
54 797 linkin park
55 784 jessica alba
56 784 bikini
57 776 myspace layouts
58 770 play hunting games
59 770 weather
60 768 amazon.com
61 766 play pokemon games
62 762 anime
63 759 rihanna
64 756 meaning of names
65 751 google.com
66 738 mary-louise parker
67 723 carmen electra
68 719 obituaries
69 712 ebay.com
70 704 jobs in nigeria
71 692 cnn
72 689 www.yahoo.com
73 681 test
74 673 maps
75 669 newspaper obituaries
76 667 world news
77 666 van halen tour
78 660 best buy
79 657 xtube
80 639 craigs list
81 639 cars
82 633 naruto
83 631 map quest
84 628 sean kingston
85 624 pamela anderson
86 623 msn.com
87 620 white pages
88 609 scooter
89 602 youporn.com
90 596 lowes
91 591 amazon
92 590 target
93 590 youtube.com
94 587 search engines
95 587 avril lavigne
96 573 van halen
97 569 shufuni
98 566 jessica simpson
99 558 www course com
100 555 jonas brothers
101 554 lindsay lohan
102 554 akon
103 550 zac efron
104 549 harry potter
105 546 thong
106 545 sears
107 541 datasheet semiconductor
108 541 elvis presley
109 540 plateosaurus
110 538 50 cent
111 535 poetry
112 526 dogpile
113 525 free music lyrics
114 524 playstation game cheats
115 520 girl
116 515 comcast.net
117 512 nudist
118 512 thongs
119 505 craig carton
120 505 webkinz
121 499 paramore
122 499 beatles
123 499 raven riley
124 497 free search
125 496 games
126 494 yellow pages
127 492 panties
128 491 samuel blankson books
129 489 eminem
130 487 asian
131 487 fall out boy
132 485 bank of america
133 482 runescape
134 481 dogs
135 477 google earth
136 476 lingerie
137 471 music
138 471 lyrics
139 470 datasheets semiconductor
140 466 pornotube
141 458 insurance
142 458 lil wayne
143 455 breasts
144 455 babes
145 455 airline tickets
146 455 amy winehouse
147 449 mapquest.com
148 449 angelina jolie
149 449 pokemon
150 448 pink
151 448 mature
152 448 gmail
153 447 funny
154 445 hannah montana
155 444 topless
156 444 play arcade games
157 444 kelly blue book
158 443 people search
159 442 aol
160 441 short haircut
161 437 redtube
162 434 wwe
163 432 craigslist.com
164 431 malaysia airline tickets
165 429 www.hotmail.com
166 429 southwest airlines
167 426 pthc
168 425 ask.com
169 424 shakira
170 424 booty
171 423 ''''
172 422 vida guerra
173 420 beyonce
174 420 dog
175 417 driving directions
176 412 jennifer lopez
177 411 kim kardashian
178 410 tera patrick
179 410 track your pet
180 409 love
181 408 ragnarok skills tree
182 406 weather.com
183 403 hey there delilah
184 401 news
185 399 toy recall
186 398 ronaldinho skills
187 395 big brother 8
188 395 jobs for pakistani
189 394 badjojo
190 393 play free games
191 391 fox news
192 390 hilary duff
193 390 emma watson
194 387 phil rizzuto
195 387 aol mail
196 382 miley cyrus
197 379 christina aguilera
198 379 elvis
199 379 shannon elizabeth
200 376 bleach
201 374 play rpg games
202 374 free online games
203 374 acting actor
204 370 circuit city
205 370 timbaland
206 369 women
207 368 nepal jobs
208 368 kanye west
209 367 myspace login
210 362 jessica biel
211 361 soulja boy
212 361 katie price
213 360 song lyrics
214 360 film course
215 359 computer game cheats
216 357 madonna
217 356 stock ticker
218 354 blonde
219 354 boysfood
220 353 bebo
221 353 hairstyles
222 353 msnbc
223 350 noaa
224 350 system of a down
225 348 american airlines
226 347 high school musical 2
227 346 ps2 cheats codes
228 345 www
229 344 justin timberlake
230 344 metallica
231 342 nickelback
232 342 cute baby names
233 341 jobs
234 341 my chemical romance
235 340 high school musical
236 339 busty
237 339 wicked weasel
238 337 ask
239 337 jennifer aniston
240 336 american pie
241 333 movies
242 331 marquess
243 328 ups
244 328 al4a
245 328 jobs kenya
246 326 chris brown
247 325 korn
248 324 transformers
249 322 ebony
250 321 usps
251 320 beautiful girls
252 318 vande mataram mp3
253 316 cascada
254 316 cnn.com
255 316 simpsons
256 315 obituaries newspapers
257 315 lolicon
258 314 games play
259 312 mika
260 312 pc game cheats
261 311 jesse jane
262 310 google maps
263 310 xtube.com
264 310 verizon
265 309 black
266 306 dans movies
267 305 megan fox
268 304 limewire
269 302 amateur
270 302 expedia
271 301 get passport
272 300 madden 08 cheats
273 299 yuvutu
274 298 free games
275 298 gmail.com
276 297 games to play
277 297 staples
278 297 office depot
279 295 walmart.com
280 294 kolumbas affair
281 291 john cena
282 290 family guy
283 289 travelocity
284 289 play computer games
285 289 slipknot
286 289 search engine optimization
287 288 verizon wireless
288 287 bushido
289 286 playstation2 game cheats
290 286 jokes
291 286 flowers
292 284 utube
293 284 baby names
294 283 beach
295 283 facebook.com
296 283 online games
297 283 costco
298 282 bon jovi
299 281 pink floyd
300 281 briana banks
3. The top 200 long-term keyword report
Our current database contains 339,356,277 search terms
and represents the complete queries from the largest
metacrawlers on the web (Metacrawler/Dogpile etc.) for the
last 90 days.
Nos. Count Keyword
===========================================
1 218436 myspace
2 157638 google
3 135337 ebay
4 135277 yahoo
5 126223 myspace.com
6 123931 play games
7 101544 play game
8 99339 game cheats for ps2
9 96545 mapquest
10 95811 paris hilton
11 95491 youtube
12 82481 yahoo.com
13 76590 games play
14 70499 girls
15 57204 craigslist
16 56086 linkin park
17 55907 you tube
18 47633 akon
19 47597 jessica alba
20 46829 rihanna
21 46575 hotmail.com
22 46253 fergie
23 45606 jenna jameson
24 45408 music lyrics
25 44894 britney spears
26 44481 facebook
27 43356 ps 2 game cheats
28 43112 yahoo mail
29 42782 hotmail
30 41616 hot
31 39699 youporn
32 39611 home depot
33 39534 anime
34 39498 msn
35 39340 baby boy names
36 39298 pamela anderson
37 39298 sperm shack movies
38 39215 walmart
39 39200 carmen electra
40 37361 harry potter
41 36660 bikini
42 36549 airline tickets
43 36385 google.com
44 35873 naruto
45 35860 myspace layouts
46 35802 avril lavigne
47 35592 wikipedia
48 35550 pc game cheats
49 35440 games cheat
50 35305 obituaries
51 35204 my space
52 34679 dictionary
53 34406 www.myspace.com
54 34402 lindsay lohan
55 33521 aol.com
56 33027 gospel music lyrics
57 32790 beyonce
58 32649 pictures of cats
59 32158 pink
60 31821 umbrella
61 31785 weather
62 31610 fall out boy
63 31039 jessica simpson
64 30980 games
65 30871 play pokemon games
66 30869 lowes
67 30558 eminem
68 29683 madonna
69 29599 cars
70 29436 50 cent
71 29339 maps
72 29140 test
73 28941 shakira
74 28922 runescape
75 28872 map quest
76 28871 lil wayne
77 28705 dogs
78 28565 jessica biel
79 28479 newspaper obituaries
80 28227 amazon.com
81 27881 thong
82 27713 ebay.com
83 27302 webkinz
84 27230 best buy
85 26898 nudist
86 26609 free radio stations
87 26588 free lady sonia
88 26313 search engines
89 26234 www.yahoo.com
90 26014 target
91 25902 girl
92 25620 pokemon
93 25614 meaning of names
94 25490 craigs list
95 24785 babes
96 24738 free e-cards
97 24708 kelly blue book
98 24640 dog
99 24632 abba
100 24612 white pages
101 24404 hey there delilah
102 24385 thongs
103 24346 lyrics
104 24157 justin timberlake
105 24105 funny
106 24028 megan fox
107 24012 msn.com
108 23983 party like a rockstar
109 23968 playstation2 game cheats
110 23791 asian
111 23783 amanda beard
112 23652 transformers
113 23634 emma watson
114 23457 amazon
115 23369 lingerie
116 23324 youtube.com
117 23254 wwe
118 23226 xtube
119 23185 flowers
120 23065 vida guerra
121 23064 cnn
122 23063 ask.com
123 23010 breasts
124 22661 metallica
125 22611 t-pain
126 22515 mika
127 22404 kelly clarkson
128 22383 dogpile
129 22381 sears
130 22305 raven riley
131 22186 free games
132 22092 mature
133 21985 music
134 21973 hannah montana
135 21957 queen
136 21419 booty
137 21166 panties
138 21083 my chemical romance
139 20898 bon jovi
140 20851 beatles
141 20285 christina aguilera
142 19983 poetry
143 19977 southwest airlines
144 19921 chris benoit
145 19893 home video
146 19696 song lyrics
147 19577 mapquest.com
148 19484 hilary duff
149 19443 sean kingston
150 19148 baby names
151 19098 tera patrick
152 19076 ebony
153 19027 maroon 5
154 18981 free online games
155 18966 jennifer lopez
156 18934 angelina jolie
157 18903 pink floyd
158 18889 yellow pages
159 18823 google earth
160 18809 shufuni
161 18756 nickelback
162 18707 circuit city
163 18664 marquess
164 18473 girlfriend
165 18214 pornotube
166 18101 women
167 18051 love
168 17974 rammstein
169 17938 driving directions
170 17704 korn
171 17380 gmail
172 17354 andrea berg
173 17334 bebo
174 17171 family guy
175 17110 michelle manhart
176 16944 amy polumbo
177 16725 comcast.net
178 16661 weather.com
179 16627 amy winehouse
180 16598 gwen stefani
181 16582 acdc
182 16556 radio stations
183 16536 local newspaper
184 16515 bank of america
185 16434 aol
186 16345 playstation game cheats
187 16318 people search
188 16309 three days grace
189 16159 cascada
190 16140 topless
191 16041 limewire
192 15722 trish stratus
193 15705 imdb
194 15687 slipknot
195 15609 timbaland
196 15593 mirthala salinas
197 15560 ask
198 15529 tattoos
199 15525 lyrics music
200 15515 katie price
Vint Cerf, aka the godfather of the net, predicts the end of TV as we know it
Picture of Vint Cerf one of the founders of the Internet
Monday August 27th, 2007 Vint Cerf helped build the internet in California in the 1970s. Now he is working on taking it beyond the Earth’s confines, with a plan to use it to control space vehicles. Photograph: Murdo Macleod
Thirty years ago he helped create a technology that has revolutionised millions of lives around the world. But yesterday the man known as the "godfather of the net" laid out his vision of where our online future might be, including a time when we download entire TV series in seconds - and even surf the web from Mars.
Talking at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, Vint Cerf - one of the handful of researchers who helped build the internet in the 1970s - said that the television industry would change rapidly as it approached its "iPod moment".
The 64-year-old, who is now a vice-president of the web giant Google and chairman of the organisation that administrates the internet, told an audience of media moguls that TV was rapidly approaching the same kind of crunch moment that the music industry faced with the arrival of the MP3 player.
"85% of all video we watch is pre-recorded, so you can set your system to download it all the time," he said. "You're still going to need live television for certain things - like news, sporting events and emergencies - but increasingly it is going to be almost like the iPod, where you download content to look at later."
Dr Cerf, who helped build the internet while working as a researcher at Stanford University in California, used the festival's Alternative McTaggart Lecture to explain to television executives how the internet's influence was radically altering their businesses and how it was imperative for them to view this as a golden opportunity to be exploited instead of a threat to their survival. The arrival of internet television has long been predicted, although it has succeeded in limited ways so far. But the popularity of websites such as YouTube - the video sharing service bought by Google in 2005 for $1.65bn (£800m) - has encouraged many in the TV industry to try and use the internet more profitably. Last month the BBC launched its free iPlayer download service, and digital video recorders such as Sky Plus and Freeview Playback allow viewers to instantly pause and record live television.
Dr Cerf predicted that these developments would continue, and that we would soon be watching the majority of our television through the internet - a revolution that could herald the death of the traditional broadcast TV channel in favour of new interactive services.
"In Japan you can already download an hour's worth of video in 16 seconds," he said. "And we're starting to see ways of mixing information together ... imagine if you could pause a TV programme and use your mouse to click on different items on the screen and find out more about them."
Some critics, including a number of leading internet service providers, have warned that the increase in video on the web could eventually bring down the internet. They are concerned that millions of people downloading at the same time using services such as iPlayer could overwhelm the network.
Dr Cerf rejected these claims as "scare tactics". "It's an understandable worry when they see huge amounts of information being moved around online," he said. But some pundits had predicted 20 years ago that the net would collapse when people started using it en masse, he added. "In the intervening 30 years it's increased a million times over ... We're far from exhausting the capacity."
Dr Cerf also revealed that he has been working on future developments for the internet, taking it beyond the confines of planet Earth. With other researchers he has been developing systems for using the net to communicate and control space vehicles, including interplanetary landers sent to explore the surface of Mars.
"Up until now we've been using the so-called Deep Space Network to communicate across space with radio signals. What my colleagues and I would like to do is use a version of internet," he said. He said the problems encountered by the project - such as having to wait 40 minutes for a response from a space vehicle 235m miles away - were proving awkward, but predicted the system could eventually be used to enhance internet communications. "I want more internet," he said. "I want every one of the 6 billion people on the planet to be able to connect to the internet - I think they will add things to it that will really benefit us all."
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Top 25 User Generated Content Sites or what some people like to call...
WEB 2.0 Sites
August 2007
Here are the 25 Largest User Generated Content Websites ranked by a combination of Inbound Links, Google Page Rank, Alexa Rank, and U.S. traffic data from Compete and Quantcast. Although no traffic metrics are completely accurate we do believe the data below to be useful for gauging relative audience size.
 1 | myspace.com
92,285,806 - Inbound Links | 68,285,849 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 53,000,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 6 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8
eBusiness News | Top 25 UGC Sites | Updated 8/12/2007 | eBizMBA
 2 | Wikipedia.org
75,539,411 - Inbound Links | 41,422,790 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 43,000,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 9 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8
eBusiness News | Top 25 UGC Sites | Updated 8/12/2007 | eBizMBA
 3 | YouTube.com
52,375,050 - Inbound Links | 23,825,526 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 32,000,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 4 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8
eBusiness News | Top 25 UGC Sites | Updated 8/12/2007 | eBizMBA
 4 | facebook.com
18,261,829 - Inbound Links | 22,541,770 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 25,000,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 12 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8
eBusiness News | Top 25 UGC Sites | Updated 8/12/2007 | eBizMBA
 5 | photobucket.com
144,789,477 - Inbound Links | 25,548,801 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 14,000,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 40 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8
eBusiness News | Top 25 UGC Sites | Updated 8/12/2007 | eBizMBA
 6 | craigslist.org
2,218,413 - Inbound Links | 23,982,542 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 15,000,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 46 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8
eBusiness News | Top 25 UGC Sites | Updated 8/12/2007 | eBizMBA
 7 | flickr.com
51,779,871 - Inbound Links | 23,643,614 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 9,700,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 36 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8
eBusiness News | Top 25 UGC Sites | Updated 8/12/2007 | eBizMBA
 8 | IMDB.com
22,521,797 - Inbound Links | 17,703,766 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 11,000,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 32 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8
eBusiness News | Top 25 UGC Sites | Updated 8/12/2007 | eBizMBA
 9 | digg.com
118,353,522 - Inbound Links | 16,964,445 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 8,700,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 104 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8
eBusiness News | Top 25 UGC Sites | Updated 8/12/2007 | eBizMBA
 10 | WordPress.com
40,127,598 - Inbound Links | 6,373,166 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 16,040,392 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 79 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8
eBusiness News | Top 25 UGC Sites | Updated 8/12/2007 | eBizMBA
 11 | topix.com
12,338,857 - Inbound Links | 4,496,803 - Compete Monthly Visitors | NA - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 1,583 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 6
eBusiness News | Top 25 UGC Sites | Updated 8/12/2007 | eBizMBA
 12 | Netscape.com
21,622,171 - Inbound Links | 4,855,232 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 8,282,805 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 555 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 9
eBusiness News | Top 25 UGC Sites | Updated 8/12/2007 | eBizMBA
 13 | xanga.com
8,229,423 - Inbound Links | 3,494,603 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 6,627,359 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 91 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
eBusiness News | Top 25 UGC Sites | Updated 8/12/2007 | eBizMBA
 14 | TypePad.com
39,468,446 - Inbound Links | 6,431,095 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 4,400,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 190 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8
eBusiness News | Top 25 UGC Sites | Updated 8/12/2007 | eBizMBA
 15 | cafepress.com
39,894,526 - Inbound Links | 3,423,757 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 3,400,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 824 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8
eBusiness News | Top 25 UGC Sites | Updated 8/12/2007 | eBizMBA
 16 | feedburner.com
100,244,672 - Inbound Links | 5,478,321 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 592,976 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 323 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8
eBusiness News | Top 25 UGC Sites | Updated 8/12/2007 | eBizMBA
 17 | LiveJournal.com
33,451,748 - Inbound Links | 3,660,684 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 1,900,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 63 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8
eBusiness News | Top 25 UGC Sites | Updated 8/12/2007 | eBizMBA
 18 | Technorati.com
75,264,240 - Inbound Links | 3,231,709 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 1,400,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 216 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8
eBusiness News | Top 25 UGC Sites | Updated 8/12/2007 | eBizMBA
 19 | linkedin.com
2,850,378 - Inbound Links | 2,390,529 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 1,300,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 151 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
eBusiness News | Top 25 UGC Sites | Updated 8/12/2007 | eBizMBA
 20 | del.icio.us
171,905,738 - Inbound Links | 1,699,128 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 1,300,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 248 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8
eBusiness News | Top 25 UGC Sites | Updated 8/12/2007 | eBizMBA
 21 | dailymotion.com
3,376,702 - Inbound Links | 1,962,777 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 853,305 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 51 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
eBusiness News | Top 25 UGC Sites | Updated 8/12/2007 | eBizMBA
 22 | friendster.com
3,275,127 - Inbound Links | 1,521,905 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 808,926 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 19 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
eBusiness News | Top 25 UGC Sites | Updated 8/12/2007 | eBizMBA
 23 | StumbleUpon.com
19,083,910 - Inbound Links | 1,313,586 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 695,239 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 300 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8
eBusiness News | Top 25 UGC Sites | Updated 8/12/2007 | eBizMBA
 24 | last.fm
14,448,992 - Inbound Links | 1,150,875 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 713,976 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 304 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
eBusiness News | Top 25 UGC Sites | Updated 8/12/2007 | eBizMBA
 25 | MyBlogLog.com
1,746,490 - Inbound Links | 1,972,847 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 84,922 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 432 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
eBusiness News | Top 25 UGC Sites | Updated 8/12/2007 | eBizMBA
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