After the devastation caused by the natural disasters this past couple of weeks here are a couple of internet stats sources to see what people are writing about and searching for online. Blog Attention via Data Mining Increase in Australian Seach Requests (week ending 10/05/2008) ‘myanmar’ (620%) ‘burma’ (3675%) via HitWise

Using the internet to allow fans to help fund a musician’s album making process so they can avoid having a record label is easy with sites like Slicethepie and Sellaband. But Australian singer Clint Crighton is providing more incentive for people to invest in his music project. One of the one thousand people who put [...]

Ben Shepherd is quoting the latest Nielsen Netview (April 2008) which states that in April Facebook has beaten Myspace in the battle for users here in Australia for the first time ever. April 2008 Facebook (2.646 million users) defeats Myspace (2.623 million users) Poor Rupert. Your youth fly trap is still cool, I guess. Let [...]

After the over analysis on blogs of the corporates’ social networking “wars” from last week. ‘Tis time to focus on the users, which is why I really love this Current TV video of what would happen in real life if a user was confronted by the online social networks for not logging in enough. “…you [...]

Didn’t pay attention during Grade 3 Italian? Thought Grade 7 Japanese was waste of time and Grade 8 German wasn’t worth the effort? Thankfully, now we’re older we can see the benefits of having another language under the belt and there are a wide variety of ways rectify your lack of being bilingual by learning [...]

We love any idea that is simple, cheap, subverts the norm and produces outstanding results. The Black Cab Sessions ticks every box by recording a band performing one song in the back of a London black cab. ‘We offer a lift to a touring band from their hotel to the venue, so they can always [...]

A UK shopping centre is using the signal from its customer’s mobile phones to monitor people in the building. The technology can tell when people enter a shopping centre, what stores they visit, how long they remain there, and what route they take as they walked around. – via Times Online This uber level of [...]

Watch this human version of the insanely addictive popular game on Nokia mobile phones Snake also known as Tron from early Apple Macintosh computers. (found via rocketboom)

Mr. Bush stopped e-mailing when he entered the White House, citing security worries, and the Oval Office does not have a computer in it. via NY Times It seems unimaginable that anyone could exist in a level of power like the US Presidency without at least some information flow coming from the web and its [...]

Sure you could get the Sunday paper this morning and look at what the pretty young fabulous things have been up to during the last 7 nights in your city. But it’s not real. It’s all glamorous parties when we know that a real party is anything but. Which is why we love this new [...]