Opera Mini one of the most popular mobile browsers, with 144M unique users monthly worldwide. The company pulled the stats on the top 10 visited mobile sites in 2011, with the data collected spanning November 2010-2011. The world’s most popular websites on Opera Mini 2011 are: #1. google.com #2. facebook.com #3. youtube.com (up 1) #4. vkontakte.ru (down 1) #5. odnoklassniki.ru #6. yandex.ru #7. wikipedia.org (up 4) #8. my.opera.com #9. yahoo.com (down 2) #10. twitter.com (up 2) Check the image below for comparison between November 2010 and November 2011. The world’s top 20 sites In addition to this, Opera picked up on a few interesting mobile browsing trends for 2011: #1 Wikipedia, Blogger and Spaces
Read MoreIf you regularly mistype your password because it is too complex or you're in a rush, Visual Hashing (free, Firefox, Chrome) will turn your password into a colored hash to you can immediately see whether you've typed it correctly or not. After you install this add-on, you'll be able to see a four-color visual "hash" in password inputs all around the web. The hash will update as you type. You can think of the hash as being your password's "fingerprint." Over time, you'll remember the colors associated with each password, which will prevent you from mistyping your passwords. That way, if
Read MoreWe know that Wikipedia gets additions, edits, and deletions all of the time, but without a visualization we just have to assume that’s the case. With Wikistream, we can see exactly what’s happening on Wikipedia in real-time. The background image on the page updates randomly, and sometimes the stream goes so fast it’s impossible to even see what’s going on. It uses node.js, socket.io and redis to sit in the wikimedia IRC chat rooms (where updates are published), and makes them available on the Web in realtime. You don’t really have an idea of how much content gets tweaked on Wikipedia
Read MoreMost people know that BitTorrent is far from anonymous, but seeing all your recent downloads listed on a public website is still quite a revelation. This is exactly what Youhavedownloaded.com does. The developers of the site want to make people aware of the public nature of BitTorrent, and are currently working on a more anonymous version of the leading file-sharing technology. The site Youhavedownloaded.com keeps a huge database of millions of IP addresses and the many million files downloaded from these addresses. The site claims that it track about 20 percent of all public BitTorrent downloads. People who visit the
Read MoreMicrosoft's social experiment which was called Tulalip, gone official named So.cl (pronounced "social") is an experimental research project, developed by Microsoft's FUSE Labs. You sign up and search for stuff by Bing (of course) and your queries are automatically shared with your friends. "As students work together, they often search for the same items, and discover new shared interests by sharing links," explains Microsoft. "So.cl experiments with this concept by automatically sharing links as you search." And the way those things get shared with people, looks a lot like Facebook's newsfeed design. They even call it a "feed." The site also
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