Pingdom reports in to let us know there are 2.1 Billion active Web users worldwide

Numbers can be a little mind-numbing some times, especially when it comes to anything to do with technology and the Internet. Facebook with its 800 million users, or pretty close to it, Twitter with its 225 million ... continue

Leaving your fingerprints all over the Web

Bet you think you are pretty smart when it comes to making sure that you don't leave any trace of your information lying around the web when you are finished surfing. After all the first thing you ... continue

Latest pointless Twitter stat: African Americans LOVE Twitter

I guess it is to be expected but I for one am getting really sick and tired of all these studies that pop up around Twitter spouting off who it is popular with this group of people, ... continue

Gorgeous stats video on “the state of the internet”

The exponential growth of the internet never fails to amaze me. Every year, you think it couldn't possibly be more influential, or huge, or humanity uniting, and then you see videos like this one. Plus, it's done in ... continue

Today in online dating: men are “ageist,” everyone’s racist

OKCupid is interesting for a variety of reasons, one being that they don't bombard us with suicidal thought-inducing commercials that could be mistaken for Cialis ads, featuring depressing people frolicking on a boat. Another cool thing is the ... continue

Google searches indicate economy is recovering. Slowly.

Hal Varian, Google's chief economist, has noticed some significant, promising changes trending since March. Unemployment searches are down, real estate searches are up, and temporary employment (which often is a pre-indicator for a recovery in the permanent kind) ... continue

Some more Twitter stats for those stataholics out there

I ran across this wide ranging set of statistics for Twitter the other day full of bullet points and some really pretty looking graphs. So I figured that since it was a pretty boring ... continue

A super bowl for your web stats

A lot of folks who run web sites, blogs or other such web services stats junkies. Being able to see what is happening traffic wise is something that they just can’t get enough of. ... continue