Facebook now has 24 million users who spend an average of 14 minutes on the site every time they visit. This is up from 8 minutes last September, according to Hitwise, a traffic measuring service.
MySpace has 67 million numbers -- nearly 3 times as many as Facebook! MySpace users spend an average of 30 minutes on the site each time they visit.
Sergey Brin recently married Anne Wojcicki. They couple met after Anne's sister rented her garage to Sergey and his co-founder, Larry Page, to serve as office space for their search-engine venture!
Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, is worth about $17 billion, making him the 9th richest person in the US. Check him out pre-billionaire and post-billionaire...
In the United States, roughly 70% of Internet users are over the age of 30; in China, it is the other way around — 70% of users here are under 30, according to the investment bank Morgan Stanley.
On Thursday, the verb "google" was offically added to the dictionary.
Merriam-Webster lists "google" as a transitive verb meaning "to use the Google search engine to obtain information about (as a person) on the World Wide Web." The Oxford English Dictionary also added it as a verb last month. The trademarks Band-Aid, Kleenex, Rollerblade and Xerox have all followed a similar path.
It is one-fifth the size of the original iPod. It's one-third the size of the super-thin Motorola RAZR. And it weighs less than 8 quarters in your pockets -- it even fits comfortably into the change pocket of your jeans.
Ever wonder why you can hide away that subwoofer speaker, yet the bass still sounds like it's coming from your main speakers? But for some reason, if you move the main speakers (tweeter, midrange), then you definitely notice the change?
It turns out that you can only tell which direction a sound is coming from because it arrives at your two ears at slightly different times. In general, our ears can hear from about 20Hz-20,000Hz (cycles/second) -- lower the Hertz, the lower the pitch. The formula w = f / v gives you the wavelength of a sound (where f is the frequency, w is the wavelength, and v is the velocity of sound [approx 1100 ft/sec]).
By plugging in a wavelength of about a foot (the distance between your ears) you arrive at a lower limit wavelength of 1,100 Hz. So if a sound is lower than 1,100 Hz, you can't really tell where it's coming from.
"Bluetooth" is a wireless technology that connects various electronics devices together.
Harald Bluetooth was king of Denmark in the late 900s. He managed to unite Denmark and part of Norway into a single kingdom then introduced Christianity into Denmark. Choosing this name for the standard indicates how important companies from the Baltic region (nations including Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland) are to the communications industry, even if it says little about the way the technology works.
Before they can read, almost one in four children in nursery school are learning a skill that even some adults have yet to master: using the Internet. About 23% of children in nursery school -- kids age 3, 4, or 5 -- have gone online, according to the Education Department.
By kindergarten, 32% have used the Internet, typically under adult supervision!
The heart of Google's search technology is PigeonRank. Building upon the breakthrough work of B. F. Skinner, Google founders Page and Brin reasoned that low cost pigeon clusters (PCs) could be used to compute the relative value of web pages faster than human editors or machine-based algorithms. (Yes this is a joke from google)
As of June 2005, Google has become the world's most highly-valued media company after only 10 months of trading as a public company (currently $280 a share).
With $3.2B in sales, Google is now worth $80B, ahead of media giant Time Warner at $78B (with $42B of sales).
Campus networking
levies fees from UNC departments not by headcount, but by telephone-count.
This is deemed to better represent the actual network usage
than the number of employees of a department.
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