What happened with the Internet in 2010?
Posted on January 13, 2011 by Budi Putra in Featured, Media, Statistics, Tech
What happened with the Internet in 2010? There are almost two billion Internet users worldwide; 107 trillion emails sent; 152 million blogs tracked; 175 million people on Twitter; 600 million people on Facebook; 2 billion videos watched per day on YouTube; and 5 billion photos hosted by Flickr.
Check-out the complete Internet 2010 statistics compiled by research company Pingdom.
You’ve got mail! Yeah, but more social
Posted on November 16, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
Electronic mail (email or e-mail) has been used since the early 1960′s, thanks to timesharing computers technology, then developed along with the evolution of the Internet. Even until today; when everyone has turned into various communication services and applications, email still there. Yeah, we are still using it every day, aren’t we?. Yahoo! launches its Mail Beta; Windows Live Hotmail adds more features; Gmail tries to keep its dream team; AOL unveils new AOL Mail; and Facebook joins the club today!
18 interesting firsts on the Internet
Posted on March 9, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
Just discovered an interesting list, 18 first different things on the Internet [brief] history, thanks to the TechReaders site!
- The First Email: Ray Tomlinson sent first email and also made use of @ symbol in email addresses in 1971.
- The First Ever Domain Name: “symbolics.com” registered by computer manufacturer Symbolics (now obsolete) on 15th March 1985.
- The First SPAM Email Ever: Gary Thuerk sent spam email messages to 393 people on ARPANET on 3rd May 1978.
- The First Ever Mobile Phone with Internet Access Facility: Nokia 9000 Communicator (launched in 1996, Finland).
- The First Ever Website: Info.cern.ch which was launched in late 1990.
- The First Ever E-Commerce Website and Transaction: NetMarket that claims to process first ever secure transaction on the web on August 11, 1994.
- The First Ever Online Bank: Stanford Federal Credit Union that provides Online Internet Banking services to all of its customers in October, 1994.
- The First Ever Search Engine: WebCrawler.com which was launched in 1994.
- The First Ever Blog: Justin Halls is considered the first blogger who started a web diary in 1994. [The term webblog was introduced in 1997 which later led to “blog” in 1999].
- The First Ever Podcast: Dave Winer added audio content into the RSS feeds on January 11, 2001.
- The First Item Ever Sold on eBay: A broken laser pointer worth $14.83.
- The First Book Ever Sold on Amazon: Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas Hofstadter [1995].
- The first edit on Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder when doing a test edit with text “Hello, World!”
- The First Ever Video on YouTube: “Me at the Zoo” video put by the the cofounder of YouTube Jawed Karim on April 23, 2005.
- The First Ever Message on Twitter: It was a demonstration message with text “just setting up my twttr” by the creator of Twitter, Jack Dorsey on 21st March 2006.
- The First Ever Voice Chat Service: Rocket Messenger.
- The First Ever Website Hacked: Federal websites that included US Department of Justic, U.S. Air Force, CIA, and NASA in 1990.
- The First Ever Social Network Site: Friendster.com which was launched in 2002.
Check your LinkedIn connections or Facebook status on Outlook!
Posted on February 17, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
Microsoft just released a beta version of of the Outlook Social Connector, where users could check their LinkedIn connections, MySpace’s friends or Facebook status from Outlook, the company’s dekstop email program. Smart move!
Google launching Twitter-killer!
Posted on February 9, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
Following the launch of Yahoo’s “status-casting” for its email service back in August 2009, Google will also allow its email users to their update status. Google could announce “the Twitter-killer” as soon as this week, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The prompt reads, “let people know what you’re up to, or share links to photos, videos, and Web pages.” But every time a user updates their status, the previous update disappears into the ether.
The WSJ says the new feature will “allow Gmail users to view a stream of status updates from people they choose to connect with.” It will be tightly integrated with Google’s video-sharing site YouTube and its photo-sharing site Picasa.
[via Business Insider]
Facebook email? No, thanks!
Posted on February 7, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
When it comes to the online activity, the following is my daily habit in the morning: checking my emails, Twitter and blog’s Dashboard.
Frankly speaking, even having two email accounts are too many for me. But those [Yahoo! Mail and Gmail] really help in term of personal email management. I am using Yahoo! Mail for all services’ subscriptions and Gmail for self-hosted domain name’s mail. I even often Twitter’s private messages (called DM) to ping some friends.
Getting notice recently that Facebook is now planning to launch its own webmail service, I am a bit surprised. Do we need a new [web-based] email? Oh wait. Might be Facebook is not targeting user like me. If Facebook is eyeing common users, instead of a user like me, so it does make sense. Why? Because Facebook is becoming less relevant for me. I refuse to even use Facebook for message things.A short history of Hotmail
Posted on January 7, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
Hotmail is my first e-mail ever, registered it a few months after attended a short course and internship on journalism in Tokyo, mid-1996 [still use it sometimes, but no longer my primary email now, since I already had a certain custom domain name]. However, I don’t want to blog here about my history in using Hotmail, but wanted to post a short history of Hotmail –a worth reading article written by Dick Craddock, Group Program Manager for Windows Live Hotmail.
Hotmail was born on July 4th, 1996 – the creation of a Silicon Valley startup founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith. It was one of the very first services to offer free web-based e-mail. Originally, Hotmail was spelled “HoTMaiL,” emphasizing its use of HTML for the web user interface. Hotmail became popular quickly, and by the end of 1997 already had millions of customers. Hotmail was acquired by Microsoft late in 1997 and was later integrated with another acquisition – the web-based calendar service, Jump. Hotmail continued to grow very quickly – reaching tens of millions of users in just a few years. Today, Hotmail has provisioned well over a billion inboxes and has several hundred million active users around the world.
The Hotmail service has gone through tons of changes since 1996. When Hotmail first started, we offered free e-mail with a 2 MB storage limit. Over time, we’ve steadily increased the storage limits to 2GB and 5GB. Today, we offer ever-growing storage, which means that you essentially never have to worry about storage limits again.
