Frank Kern is a brilliant marketer. He’s been around for while, but apart from being very skilful he’s also a joy to watch. In the free video, he talks about…

Just watch it for free. Free 2 hours training from one of the best. Go get it here:

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The internet has grown a lot since it’s humble beginnings. It’s all pervasive now. I’ve gathered some interesting facts and statistics in this article about internet traffic.

Please note that all links will open in a new window.

Created by Online Education

Another one I found on Webdesigner Depot (great blog) a while ago.

Global Internet Traffic

And from the same article:

Internet Traffic through Sea Cables

A lot of information can also be found on the Alexa website.

From the data in the Wikipedia entry I’ve created this graph that shows you how traffic is increasing exponentially over the years.

Internet Traffic

Multimedia type traffic is still increasing so the amount of traffic per month is likely to shoot up for quite a few years yet.

The only thing that can possibly curb the trend is a clamp down on p2p and spam traffic as an internet traffic report in arstechnica.com suggests.

Also in Sweden last year the volume of traffic reduced because of new laws as this article on the BBC website reports.

For some more great information and graphics look here:

Beautiful blog maps:

Data Mining: Mapping The Blogosphere

The awesome Twingly screensaver visualising the blogosphere, see video:

http://www.twingly.com/screensaver

Akamai monitors internet traffic real time:

Akamai Real-time Web Monitor

Do you have other interesting facts and links? Let me know or comment on this post.

Cheers, Gerben

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• Drop in P2P Traffic Attributed to Traffic Shaping (tech.slashdot.org)
• Internet traffic superpowers (telcojobsbloggers.com)

Software Patents are not good for business. Look at this website to see why.

Patented website

Stop the nonsense, software patents are counter productive and stops free trade and is geared towards big companies who have money to burn on lawyers.

Click below and sign the petition:

Stumbled on this post on Tim Ferriss’ 4-Hour Workweek Blog. Haven’t read the book yet but it’s on my list.

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/12/13/how-to-create-a-global-phenomenon-for-less-than-10000/

Here is the presentation:

Ferriss – Le Web 2

Some of the websites that Tim talks about:

Kevin Kelly’s 1000 True Fans

Merlin Mann’s 43 Folders

Gem: “Target the Thought Leaders, that will get you to Traffic Leaders”

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From the SD Times News (one of the more technical ezines I’m subscribed to) I got this link:

http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/ITProfessionals/EthicsIT/how-to-enable-godmode-on-windows-7

All settings and tweaks together. It works on my notebook (Vista 32-bit). But read some of the notices before trying.

It just makes you wonder: What else is there that is just undocumented or that they don’t want you to know? If you find a good trick, let me know…

Technorati Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating system, Windows Vista

Google apparently does a lot more fancy stuff behind the scenes of just matching your keywords than you would imagine. Some of this we can already see when it tries to give you suggestions when you type an error. A good article and video can be found here:

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/12/05/google-shares-search-predictions

Now that Microsoft bought Wolfram Alpha you can bet that Google is trying to do a similar thing. Google calls this web application “Google Squared” and the beta version can be found here:

http://www.google.com/squared

Wolfram Alpha can be found here:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

If you search for instance for ‘planets’ the result is a nice grid with some usefull (or maybe not) facts about planets. It also includes some stars though. See image.

Google Squared

It looks like Wolfram Alpha returns the better quality results, but Google Squared is only Beta (even though Wolfram Alpha has Alpha in the name, it’s not), so we can expect more in the future. The nice thing is you can easily add and remove rows and columns and it will keep looking for the best matching data. And it’s integrated in the Google Document world, making it easy to save, share and export.

Wolfram Alpha

I like both. But try it out for yourself.

I had much fun at the office today with this application. You upload your photo and it tries to match you to lookalikes celebrities. Now I’m not too keen to look like anyone, and certainly not celebrities. But it’s much fun when you do it and watch it with a few people.

Here is the link:

http://celebrity.myheritage.com/FP/Company/try-face-recognition.php

Google recently launched their new product: Google Dashboard. It’s basically a list of information Google holds about your account on their different websites.

See Eric Schmidt interviewed by Fox Business here:

Or click here for a new window: Eric Schmidt interview

Google Dashboard can be found here.

Hi, if you like this template, you can download and use it for free. And if you’re wondering where the picture in the header is from. It’s taken during a trip with colleagues in the Lake District, UK.

It’s taken during the ascend of Jack’s Rake on 21 Oct 2007.

http://www.gerbenvandyk.com/wp-content/uploads/gerben2.zip

And of course my mugshot is not on this template!

You can find more pictures from Jack’s Rake here:

http://www.gerbenvandyk.com/photos/jacks-rake/

Cheers,

Gerben

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/06/25-useful-infographics-for-web-designers/