Instant Messaging

Twitter is a web site that offers social networking and a micro-blogging service. It is a worldwide site used by more than 100million users

RSS (really simple syndication) streaming news, this is a free web free set up by many major web browsers.

Instant Messaging

MSN

Social Networking (facebook)

BBM (BlackBerryMessenger)

In Game chat

Advantages

Real time

Global

Easy- Voice, Video, (iPhone4)

Disadvantages

Privacy

Spelling

Open to abuse

English/ Language

Blog

Blog

• Personal blogs
• Corporate and organizational blogs
• Genre blogs
• Media blogs
• Device blogs

Top 10 blogs 14^th September 2010-09-14

1. Huffingtonpost.com

News, current affaires

2. techcrunch.com

Gadgets, social networking sites

3. gizmodo.com

4. mashable.com

    5.   gawker.com

6. engadget.com

Gadgets

7. tmz.com

Gossip, celebrities

8. boingboing.net

9. thedailybeast.com

News, current affaires

10. readwriteweb.com

Web apps, web technology, social networking and social media

E-mail Statistics

E-mail

Mail sent via Internet

username@domain

Spam

What is it? What can you do with it?

247 billion emails were sent each day in 2009.

247 billion messages per day means more than 2.8 million emails are sent every second. Around 80% of these millions of message are but spam and viruses.

In the United States, only 4% of Internet users said marketing emails made them decide not to buy a product. - e-Dialog, "Global Perspectives: a Study of Consumer Attitudes to Digital Marketing" (2010)

Forty-three percent of email users check their email first thing in the morning, and 40% have checked their email in the middle of the night. Twenty-six percent admit to checking email on a laptop in bed while in their pajamas. - AOL (2007)

http://email.about.com/od/emailtrivia/f/emails_per_day.htm