Social Media Traffic Changes

Here are some graphs that show the change in social media's traffic. All pictures are taken from mashable.com.

CAPTCHA Ads

What is a CAPTCHA ?
As the name implies, CAPTCHAs were created as a way for websites to differentiate a real human visitor from a bot. CAPTCHA forms allow webmasters to display an image which contains a random string of letters and numbers. Visitors to websites utilizing CAPTCHAs are then be prompted to correctly enter the text displayed in the image in order to proceed with certain actions such as registering a new account, or leaving a comment on a blog or forum.

This is done in order to prevent bots from mass registering accounts, automatically posting spammy comments, and sending spam messages to a large amount of registered users among other things. CAPTCHAs have advanced over time to become less vulnerable to bots and scripts attempting to solve the codes while striving to remain user-friendly.

How CAPTCHA Advertising Works

The evolution of CAPTCHAs has inevitably led to a form of advertising. In essence, the core concepts and purpose of CAPTCHAs will remain unchanged. Don’t worry, you’ll still be shown an image that displays a line of text which must be entered correctly in order to proceed. The difference, however, lies in the presentation of the CAPTCHA. Instead of seeing a distorted image that contains randomly generated characters, you will see an image containing text that has been carefully selected by an advertiser.

These advertisers, which will likely span a number of big name national and international corporations, will submit their ads to a company capable of displaying them. Webmasters looking to monetize their CAPTCHA forms will also sign up with this company, and will be given a script that places the customized CAPTCHA on select portions of their website. The advertiser will then pay the said company a set amount of cash every time the CAPTCHA is successfully filled out, and the webmasters will be paid a cut of what the advertiser is paying. The company, acting as an intermediary, then collects the change remaining after paying out the webmaster.

Source
Techi.com

Future computer may understand you

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Browser market Share

Pic: Browser Market Shares. Source: www.tomshardware.com

Facebook wants to be the main river ?

A tributary is a stream or river which flows into a main stem (or parent) river. Facebook wants every site on the web to be a tributary. And it wants to be the main river using Open Graph API.

• Basically, the Open Graph API is a way for Facebook to allow other companies, sites, services, etc to interact with Facebook without having to create a dedicated Facebook Page.
• With the Open Graph API, Facebook wants to allow anyone to take their own site and essentially wrap it in a Facebook blanket. This doesn’t necessarily mean in a visual way, but rather that these sites which use the APIs will be able to replicate many of the core Facebook functionality on their own sites.
• So you can imagine that you might be able to create a Facebook-style Wall to include on your site, but able to update your statuses from your site, leave comments, like items, etc. Again, it’s like a Facebook Page, but it would be on your site. And you can only include elements you want, and leave out others.

Text 2.0 - Interesting

One of my friends has been keeping his messenger status : "Everything is 2.0" since last few months back. It is because he is working in Web2.0 and communication systems and he thinks that everything is changing. Text was in 1.0 but now it is approaching to 2.0. This fact supports him :). Watch the video below, it is really interesting one !

Facebook beats Google

Here is an interesting news copied from consumerist.com:

It's official -- playing Farmville and tagging friends in photos (and consequently untagging embarrassing photos of yourself from your friends' photos) has become more popular than actually trying to find things on the internet, as a new report shows Facebook edged out Google as the most-visited site on the internet last week.

According to Hitwise, Facebook accounted for 7.07% of all web traffic for the week ending March 13. That barely edges out Google's 7.03%.

This is huge news for Facebook, who only a year ago accounted for around 2% of U.S. web traffic.

C'est tres interessant

Apres long temps, j'ai ecrit une article en francais. En fait, j'ai une nouvelle interessante. La nouvelle est ici:

Aujourd'hui encore, il n'y a pas l'electricite et les routes dans ma ville. La vie est difficile. Par example, je peux appeller mes parents une fois de mois ! Donc on peux imaginer la situation et la vie là bas. En consequence, les personnes de ma ville veux partir le village pour trouver travailles et pour la vie mieux.

La tendance migration est normal. Mais la tendance donne resultats interessants. Par example, aujourd'hui j'ai trouve une personne qui j'ai vu beaucoup d'annes avant. J'ai vu lui dans ma ville 15 anne avant ! Merci web, merci mes articles blog et merci Google. A cause d'eux, il a trouve moi and donc j'ai trouve ma frere de ma ville. C'st tres interesterant....n'est pas? ;)