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Updating Malaysia’s 50 Most Influential Blogs Post

I’ve been meaning to do an update to the 50 most influential blogs for a while but finally decided not to do so - at least for now.

Obviously, most of the blogs’ Technorati rankings have been changing daily; new blogs rose to the top, old blogs rose even higher up the rank and some blogs were overtaken by others.

The popularity of memes such as the Z-list only has only added more volatility to the rankings.

Sabahan.com was in the 52nd position when the list was posted. If all the blogs’ Technorati rankings were unchanged – obviously this is not possible, Sabahan.com would have occupied position number 18 today.

50 Most Influential Blogs in Malaysia

One of the topics that came across my mind last weekend was to compile 100 of the most influential blogs in Malaysia .

Currently, there’s no straight forward formula that I could use to determine who the most influential bloggers are in the Malaysian blogosphere. Granted, I could have utilised any metric to come up with a list but does it really represent the real influential blogs list?

 

Why Technorati?

I’ve decided to use Technorati to rank blogs for several reasons. While I am aware that it’s not without its flaws, the lack of other reliable and readily accessible metrics has made me think that Technorati is the best option I have.

Google, Yahoo Gain Share In U.S. Web Search Market

comScore Networks reported that Google has increased its share of the U.S Web search market to 47.4% up from 47% during December.

Yahoo’s on the second place rose 0.3 percent to 28.5% in December over November.

The casualties is again Microsoft which ranked third when it share slid 0.5% to 10.5% while Ask.com share dipped 0.1% to 5.4%.

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Online Spending Tops $100 Billion in 2006

For the first time ever, US online spending increased by 24% in 2006, topping 100 billion. For the last two months of the year, from November 1st to December 31st, spending increased by 26% over 2005, bringing in 24.6 billion dollars!

Without the need to visit brick-and-mortar shops in person, online shoppers spread their spending over a longer period. The Monday after Thanksgiving is traditionally one of the heaviest shopping days of the year for U.S. retailers, but in 2006 it was just another day. The $607.6 million spent on “Cyber Monday,” November 27, was surpassed on 11 other days before the end of the year.

Get Paid US1000 a Month For Submitting News Story to Netscape

You read that right, the dawn of social bookmarking commercialization is here, and it’s bound to happen anyway sooner or later.

In an effort to attract more existing and active users from Digg, Reddit, NewsVine and delicious, Jason Calacanis and the new Netscape Project are offering $1000 per month to these people to put in at least 150 stories per month on Netscape.com.

That’s US12,000 per year for doing what they have been doing all this while!

20 positions of loyal bookmarkers which will be called “Netscape Navigator” is available.

Digg Vs. The New York Times

While Digg continues to gather momentum and increase its traffic, NYT seems to be losing the popularity contest.

According to the Hitwise US sample of 10 million internet users, Digg ranked at #101 in the News & Media category in for the week ending July 1, 2006. The share of page impressions for the NY Times was 19 times greater than for Digg for that week. If I put the NY Times on the same chart as Digg, Digg’s traffic would look tiny and relatively flat, even though its share of page impressions has grown substantially in the past several months, increasing 51% from February to June 2006. Digg did receive a greater share of page impressions in June than Times Select, the subscriber-only section of the NY Times, and long ago eclipsed Slashdot, as you can see on the chart below.

The Web’s Slow Season Is Here

I usually notice that my Internet business is a little slower than usual during the summer months of June, July and August.

My software business and affiliate program marketing in particularly feel the pinch during this time of the year. I am sure many other web businesses find this period not very exciting too.

As I mentioned previously in my recent post, this is the time when most people in the US and in many other countries take vacation and spend most of their time away from surfing the web.

Kahsoon.com is Losing Traffic Like Crazy

I noticed today Kahsoon.com traffic has gone up from the usual 20K per day, to a meteoric high of 40K and then dropped again to a ‘depressing’ 15K yesterday, all within the span of one month. That’s a very significant drop in traffic if you ask me.

Kahsoon’s traffic change in one week

Kahsoon’s traffic change in one month

If I were the owner of Kahsoon.com, I would be worried by now, probably scrambling around trying to figure out what’s happening.

2016: A Peek at Our Internet Future

There’s an interesting article predicting the future of the Internet 10 years from now in 2016.

The biggest shift over the next ten years will be one of attitude, as our mindset of “going online” is replaced by one of “being online”. This change has already started, as telephones and televisions become more integrated with the Net, and connectivity will grow to include everything from your morning alarm clock to the book you read before falling asleep at night. The “Internet” will no longer be a destination, but the essential glue that holds our world together.

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