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Happy Google Bombing to Barack

2009-01-21T15:07:00.004-05:00

Finally with a new bright guy at the White House, I got the Idea to make a happy Google Bombing for this man. After "miserable failure" I thought the antonym was a good choice to use.

"Cheerful achievement"

Place it in your blogroll, that way it will have more weight over time.

Update

Day 1 : Position 12 for Barack's page at White House site. Position 5 with quotes !

Day 2 (less than 24h) : Got it in First place and confirmed by Google Blogoscoped

Day 2 ( 2 hours later ) : The post of Blogoscoped take the 1st position and Cnet News article too : Hope it will be back if you and your friends make more link to the Obama page at White House !

Google : Blog post are now in the end of results

2008-11-06T11:38:00.003-05:00

Good news this morning while checking my referers for my blog. Google! Like news, sometimes blog post will appears in the end of results of the first page. Sometime it is in the middle after Youtube results :

Huge News for Web Metrics : Google to offer a Web Metrics tool

2008-06-24T12:59:00.003-04:00

I love this news. The Nielsen and Comscore data are so far away of the reality sometimes, this new service is welcome a lot. But Comscore (and also Nielsen) will lose a lot, their actions already lost 23% today !

Facebook stats : 10% growth over last month

2008-05-04T14:04:00.002-04:00

Countries	2008-03-30	2008-05-03	Diff. prec. month	% of pop.
Afghanistan	4 878	5 104	4,63%	0,02%
Algeria	9 317	11 103	19,17%	0,03%
Argentina	176 480	241 540	36,87%	0,61%
Australia	2 509 860	2 865 600	14,17%	13,56%
Bangladesh	61 009	65 644	7,60%	0,04%
Belgium	309 820	389 460	25,71%	3,72%
Bolivia	37 619	40 441	7,50%	0,42%
Brazil	93 520	97 780	4,56%	0,05%
Cameroon	2 376	2 586	8,84%	0,01%
Canada	9 254 940	9 365 100	1,19%	28,30%
Chile	258 460	625 160	141,88%	3,77%
China	169 260	165 120	-2,45%	0,01%
Columbia	1 185 820	1 859 440	56,81%	4,22%
Costa Rica	30 459	32 270	5,95%	0,72%
Croatia		190 220		4,27%
Cuba	3 374	3 668	8,71%	0,03%
Dominican Replublic	54 920	60 840	10,78%	0,62%
Egypt	673 780	701 640	4,13%	0,93%
Ethiopa	5 714	5 929	3,76%	0,01%
France	1 460 520	1 741 840	19,26%	2,72%
Finland		495 700		9,34%
Germany	459 720	538 460	17,13%	0,65%
Ghana	18 097	18 986	4,91%	0,08%
Greece	265 060	276 940	4,48%	2,48%
Guatemala	33 775	35 460	4,99%	0,27%
Honduras	19 150	20 030	4,60%	0,28%
Hong Kong		753 300		10,82%
Hungary	44 396	47 832	7,74%	0,48%
India	551 840	589 600	6,84%	0,05%
Indonesia	114 220	151 400	32,55%	0,07%
Iran	19 821	21 396	7,95%	0,03%
Iraq	14 375	15 433	7,36%	0,05%
Ireland	217 460	239 020	9,91%	5,56%
Israel	446 720	509 640	14,08%	7,07%
Italia	265 720	294 460	10,82%	0,50%
Japan	130 940	132 440	1,15%	0,10%
Jordan		182 100		3,01%
Kenya	46 651	49 876	6,91%	0,13%
Lebanon	259 360	309 300	19,26%	7,55%
Madagascar	2 097	2 367	12,88%	0,01%
Malaysia	310 360	360 440	16,14%	1,31%
Mexico	662 860	821 800	23,98%	0,77%
Morroco	49 322	56 614	14,78%	0,18%
Mozambique	2 498	2 616	4,72%	0,01%
Myanmar	2 551	2 660	4,27%	0,01%
Nepal	14 331	15 410	7,53%	0,05%
Netherlands	174 980	177 800	1,61%	1,08%
New Zealand	306 840	350 020	14,07%	8,24%
Nigeria	62 640	68 260	8,97%	0,05%
North Korea	636	692	8,81%	0,00%
Norway	1 014 560	1 162 100	14,54%	24,58%
Pakistan	193 260	207 780	7,51%	0,13%
Panama	124 600	149 540	20,02%	4,92%
Paraguay	4 448	5 035	13,20%	0,08%
Peru	80 880	101 260	25,20%	0,36%
Philippines	102 620	122 700	19,57%	0,14%
Poland	66 080	68 420	3,54%	0,18%
Portugal	40 543	43 121	6,36%	0,41%
Romania	36 154	38 391	6,19%	0,18%
Russia	69 660	80 737	15,90%	0,06%
Saudi Arabia	208 140	228 540	9,80%	0,92%
Serbia		124 200		1,55%
Singapore	389 860	419 340	7,56%	9,45%
South Africa	733 800	775 700	5,71%	1,60%
South Korea	73 280	71 200	-2,84%	0,15%
Spain	378 400	490 640	29,66%	1,09%
Sri Lanka	50 746	53 639	5,70%	0,28%
Sudan	16 260	17 556	7,97%	0,05%
Sweden	1 054 620	1 113 860	5,62%	12,17%
Switzerland	249 040	309 920	24,45%	4,13%
Syria	35 442	36 434	2,80%	0,18%
Taiwan	59 580	56 500	-5,17%	0,25%
Tanzania	9 527	9 822	3,10%	0,02%
Thailand	103 660	97 240	-6,19%	0,15%
Tunisia	16 737	20 077	19,96%	0,19%
Turkey	3 062 460	3 293 380	7,54%	4,40%
Uganda	9 687	10 324	6,58%	0,03%
Ukraine	24 559	25 932	5,59%	0,06%
United Arab Emir.	310 760	340 540	9,58%	7,77%
United Kingdom	9 192 620	10 334 200	12,42%	17,06%
United States	25 483 680	25 837 820	1,39%	8,51%
Uruguay	11 156	13 807	23,76%	0,41%
Uzbekistan	2 693	2 803	4,08%	0,01%
Venezuela	234 220	473 400	102,12%	1,71%
Vietnam	24 495	25 715	4,98%	0,03%
Yemen	3 190	3 437	7,74%	0,02%
Total	64 269 963	71 175 647	10,74%	1,16%

Again a huge growth in spanish countries and also in countries where the french language are used.

Toronto loose a lot of Facebook users ?

2008-04-01T21:44:00.002-04:00

Last summer Toronto was the capital of Facebook, but was outpaced by London, Uk in fall. Now it seem toronto is way out with 500,000 defections in the last month ?!?

Town / Country	02/3/2008	01/4/2008	Diff. in %
Toronto, Ca	1 828 940	1 251 720	-31,56%
Montreal, Ca	844 780	954 920	13,04%
London, UK	2 233 100	2 365 800	5,94%

Facebook Statistics: 8.3 % increase in march over 80 countries and..

2008-03-30T20:26:00.002-04:00

...Huge increase in South America and in french speaking countries since spanish and french interface have been lauched.

Here some facts :

France got more than 206,000 new users in 30 days (16,5% increase)
Canadian users are now more than British with 9,25 millions users
Algeria reach 20,7% increase, Tunesia 19,6% and Morroco 17,7%
Chile almost double it's number of Facebook users in 1 month

Countries	2008-03-01	2008-03-30	Diff. prec. mo	% of pop.
Afghanistan	4 522	4 878	7,87%	0,02%
Algeria	7 719	9 317	20,70%	0,03%
Argentina	147 920	176 480	19,31%	0,45%
Australia	2 427 260	2 509 860	3,40%	11,88%
Bangladesh	54 680	61 009	11,57%	0,04%
Belgium	279 340	309 820	10,91%	2,96%
Bolivia	33 776	37 619	11,38%	0,39%
Brazil	98 640	93 520	-5,19%	0,05%
Cameroon	2 142	2 376	10,92%	0,01%
Canada	8 864 960	9 254 940	4,40%	27,97%
Chile	130 760	258 460	97,66%	1,56%
China	153 740	169 260	10,09%	0,01%
Columbia	1 135 400	1 185 820	4,44%	2,69%
Costa Rica	28 118	30 459	8,33%	0,68%
Cuba	2 917	3 374	15,67%	0,03%
Dominican Replublic	56 880	54 920	-3,45%	0,56%
Egypt	616 600	673 780	9,27%	0,89%
Ethiopa	5 325	5 714	7,31%	0,01%
France	1 253 720	1 460 520	16,49%	2,28%
Germany	453 200	459 720	1,44%	0,56%
Ghana	16 916	18 097	6,98%	0,08%
Greece	215 240	265 060	23,15%	2,38%
Guatemala	31 501	33 775	7,22%	0,25%
Honduras	17 816	19 150	7,49%	0,27%
Hungary	40 715	44 396	9,04%	0,44%
India	529 140	551 840	4,29%	0,05%
Indonesia	112 240	114 220	1,76%	0,05%
Iran	18 355	19 821	7,99%	0,03%
Iraq	13 234	14 375	8,62%	0,05%
Ireland	215 200	217 460	1,05%	5,06%
Israel	428 300	446 720	4,30%	6,20%
Italia	246 720	265 720	7,70%	0,45%
Japan	128 360	130 940	2,01%	0,10%
Kenya	43 064	46 651	8,33%	0,12%
Lebanon	255 920	259 360	1,34%	6,33%
Madagascar	1 841	2 097	13,91%	0,01%
Malaysia	291 560	310 360	6,45%	1,13%
Mexico	687 460	662 860	-3,58%	0,62%
Morroco	41 894	49 322	17,73%	0,16%
Mozambique	2 381	2 498	4,91%	0,01%
Myanmar	2 394	2 551	6,56%	0,01%
Nepal	13 259	14 331	8,09%	0,05%
Netherlands	171 980	174 980	1,74%	1,07%
New Zealand	319 020	306 840	-3,82%	7,22%
Nigeria	52 200	62 640	20,00%	0,04%
North Korea	554	636	14,80%	0,00%
Norway	1 073 520	1 014 560	-5,49%	21,46%
Pakistan	182 720	193 260	5,77%	0,12%
Panama	116 600	124 600	6,86%	4,10%
Paraguay	3 772	4 448	17,92%	0,07%
Peru	74 260	80 880	8,91%	0,29%
Philippines	105 020	102 620	-2,29%	0,12%
Poland	61 880	66 080	6,79%	0,17%
Portugal	37 470	40 543	8,20%	0,38%
Romania	33 518	36 154	7,86%	0,17%
Russia	66 580	69 660	4,63%	0,05%
Saudi Arabia	207 340	208 140	0,39%	0,84%
Singapore	396 740	389 860	-1,73%	8,79%
South Africa	740 060	733 800	-0,85%	1,51%
South Korea	69 000	73 280	6,20%	0,15%
Spain	365 440	378 400	3,55%	0,84%
Sri Lanka	47 063	50 746	7,83%	0,26%
Sudan	14 932	16 260	8,89%	0,04%
Sweden	1 059 560	1 054 620	-0,47%	11,53%
Switzerland	233 620	249 040	6,60%	3,32%
Syria	34 351	35 442	3,18%	0,18%
Taiwan	57 180	59 580	4,20%	0,26%
Tanzania	9 042	9 527	5,36%	0,02%
Thailand	109 220	103 660	-5,09%	0,16%
Tunisia	13 989	16 737	19,64%	0,16%
Turkey	3 027 120	3 062 460	1,17%	4,09%
Uganda	8 927	9 687	8,51%	0,03%
Ukraine	22 794	24 559	7,74%	0,05%
United Arab Emir.	298 840	310 760	3,99%	7,09%
United Kingdom	8 916 220	9 192 620	3,10%	15,17%
United States	24 741 720	25 483 680	3,00%	8,40%
Uzbekistan	2 528	2 693	6,53%	0,01%
Venezuela	194 360	234 220	20,51%	0,85%
Vietnam	22 627	24 495	8,26%	0,03%
Yemen	2 897	3 190	10,11%	0,01%
Total	62 014 334	64 269 963	8,39%	2,18%

March 2008 Facebook statistics

2008-03-01T20:37:00.003-05:00

Here are the latest Facebook statistics by countries sorted by the most used countries by taking consideration of the population. Noter that west-european countries are a bit in decline but the new spanish countries are in increase.

Countries	2008-02-08	2008-03-01	Diff. prev.	% of pop.
Canada	8 739 260	8 864 960	1,44%	26,79%
Norway	1 068 860	1 073 520	0,44%	22,71%
United Kingdom	8 695 860	8 916 220	2,53%	14,72%
Sweden	1 096 240	1 059 560	-3,35%	11,58%
Australia	2 345 480	2 427 260	3,49%	11,49%
Singapore	419 580	396 740	-5,44%	8,94%
United States	23 941 680	24 741 720	3,34%	8,15%
New Zealand	312 660	319 020	2,03%	7,51%
Un. Arab Emir.	287 180	298 840	4,06%	6,82%
Lebanon	251 180	255 920	1,89%	6,24%
Israel	426 360	428 300	0,46%	5,94%
Ireland	228 960	215 200	-6,01%	5,00%
Turkey	2 845 240	3 027 120	6,39%	4,04%
Panama		116 600	ND	3,84%
Switzerland	221 640	233 620	5,41%	3,11%
Belgium	257 460	279 340	8,50%	2,67%
Columbia	777 200	1 135 400	46,09%	2,58%
France	1 279 280	1 253 720	-2,00%	1,96%
Greece	184 020	215 240	16,97%	1,93%
South Africa	731 760	740 060	1,13%	1,52%
Malaysia	296 420	291 560	-1,64%	1,06%
Netherlands	181 560	171 980	-5,28%	1,05%
Saudi Arabia	201 980	207 340	2,65%	0,84%
Egypt	610 460	616 600	1,01%	0,82%
Spain	332 220	365 440	10,00%	0,81%
Chile		130 760	ND	0,79%
Venezuela	137 260	194 360	41,60%	0,70%
Mexico	648 200	687 460	6,06%	0,65%
Costa Rica		28 118	ND	0,63%
Dominican Rep.	52 800	56 880	7,73%	0,58%
Germany	480 120	453 200	-5,61%	0,55%
Italia	238 740	246 720	3,34%	0,42%
Hungary	37 774	40 715	7,79%	0,41%
Argentina	96 960	147 920	52,56%	0,37%
Bolivia		33 776	ND	0,35%
Portugal	34 588	37 470	8,33%	0,35%
Peru	68 000	74 260	9,21%	0,27%
Uruguay		8 541	ND	0,26%
Honduras		17 816	ND	0,25%
Taiwan	69 744	57 180	-18,01%	0,25%
Sri Lanka	43 392	47 063	8,46%	0,24%
Guatemala	28 811	31 501	9,34%	0,24%
Thailand	115 520	109 220	-5,45%	0,17%
Syria	32 954	34 351	4,24%	0,17%
Poland	75 106	61 880	-17,61%	0,16%
Romania	30 781	33 518	8,89%	0,16%
South Korea	75 860	69 000	-9,04%	0,14%
Tunisia	12 352	13 989	13,25%	0,14%
Morroco	36 757	41 894	13,98%	0,13%
Philippines	112 580	105 020	-6,72%	0,12%
Kenya	39 439	43 064	9,19%	0,11%
Pakistan	180 260	182 720	1,36%	0,11%
Japan	142 800	128 360	-10,11%	0,10%
Ghana	15 593	16 916	8,48%	0,07%
Paraguay		3 772	ND	0,06%
Brazil	96 196	98 640	2,54%	0,05%
Ukraine	20 872	22 794	9,21%	0,05%
Indonesia	111 660	112 240	0,52%	0,05%
Nepal	12 315	13 259	7,67%	0,05%
Russia	64 180	66 580	3,74%	0,05%
Iraq	11 896	13 234	11,25%	0,05%
India	540 820	529 140	-2,16%	0,05%
Sudan	13 739	14 932	8,68%	0,04%
Nigeria	58 906	52 200	-11,38%	0,04%
Bangladesh	49 611	54 680	10,22%	0,03%
Uganda	8 035	8 927	11,10%	0,03%
Vietnam	21 010	22 627	7,70%	0,03%
Cuba	2 471	2 917	18,05%	0,03%
Iran	16 843	18 355	8,98%	0,03%
Algeria	6 984	7 719	10,52%	0,02%
Tanzania	8 513	9 042	6,21%	0,02%
Afghanistan	4 179	4 522	8,21%	0,02%
Yemen	2 676	2 897	8,26%	0,01%
China	171 080	153 740	-10,14%	0,01%
Cameroon	1 952	2 142	9,73%	0,01%
Mozambique	2 232	2 381	6,68%	0,01%
Madagascar	1 708	1 841	7,79%	0,01%
Uzbekistan	2 351	2 528	7,53%	0,01%
Ethiopa	4 945	5 325	7,68%	0,01%
Myanmar	2 204	2 394	8,62%	0,00%
North Korea	526	554	5,32%	0,00%
Total	59 760 917	62 014 334		2,12%

Emergency RSS/SMS in your school / company Web site

2008-02-15T21:15:00.003-05:00

I don't understand why we can't see any dedicated RSS/SMS feeds or form for emergency in any school, college, university or even big company site. Surely not for the cost !

CNN Ireport now online

2008-02-13T13:17:00.005-05:00

The new 100% citizen journalist site is now online in beta form. I hope they will ad some field of information attach to the story spacially like when it was occured not only when the guy have uploaded-it.

Facebook Statistics and 2 months grow

2008-02-10T21:57:00.000-05:00

Country	8-dec-07	8-feb-08	2 months grow (%)
United States	22 366 340	23 941 680	7,04%
Canada	8 075 980	8 739 260	8,21%
United Kingdom	7 887 620	8 695 860	10,25%
Turkey	2 192 340	2 845 240	29,78%
Australia	2 113 660	2 345 480	10,97%
France	1 063 100	1 279 280	20,33%
Sweden	1 062 080	1 096 240	3,22%
Norway	1 003 500	1 068 860	6,51%
South Africa	677 880	731 760	7,95%
Columbia	622 900	777 200	24,77%
Mexico	531 480	648 200	21,96%
Egypt	512 640	610 460	19,08%
India	447 320	540 820	20,90%
Germany	417 940	480 120	14,88%
Singapore	352 700	419 580	18,96%
Israel	330 960	426 360	28,83%
New Zealand	284 700	312 660	9,82%
Spain	275 020	332 220	20,80%
United Arab Emirates	248 820	287 180	15,42%
Malaysia	225 640	296 420	31,37%
Lebanon	217 440	251 180	15,52%
Italia	200 780	238 740	18,91%
Ireland	199 380	228 960	14,84%
Switzerland	184 440	221 640	20,17%
China	166 740	171 080	2,60%
Netherlands	166 140	181 560	9,28%
Saudi Arabia	162 760	201 980	24,10%
Pakistan	151 580	180 260	18,92%
Belgium	135 208	257 460	90,42%
Japan	124 500	142 800	14,70%
Greece	103 145	184 020	78,41%
Philippines	94 324	112 580	19,35%
Indonesia	82 280	111 660	35,71%
Brazil	70 112	96 196	37,20%
Venezuela	66 288	137 260	107,07%
Argentina	60 059	96 960	61,44%
Poland	56 652	75 106	32,57%
Taiwan	53 384	69 744	30,65%
Thailand	49 114	115 520	135,21%
Russia	49 047	64 180	30,85%
South Korea	45 789	75 860	65,67%
Dominican Replublic	43 000	52 800	22,79%
Nigeria	39 868	58 906	47,75%
Bangladesh	35 819	49 611	38,50%
Sri Lanka	30 948	43 392	40,21%
Peru	30 635	68 000	121,97%
Kenya	30 000	39 439	31,46%
Hungary	26 746	37 774	41,23%
Syria	26 309	32 954	25,26%
Portugal	24 597	34 588	40,62%
Morroco	22 442	36 757	63,79%
Guatemala	21 842	28 811	31,91%
Romania	21 694	30 781	41,89%
Vietnam	15 694	21 010	33,87%
Ukraine	14 856	20 872	40,50%
Ghana	11 323	15 593	37,71%
Iran	11 303	16 843	49,01%
Sudan	9 886	13 739	38,97%
Nepal	8 602	12 315	43,16%
Iraq	7 880	11 896	50,96%
Tunisia	7 093	12 352	74,14%
Tanzania	6 691	8 513	27,23%
Uganda	5 724	8 035	40,37%
Algeria	4 475	6 984	56,07%
Ethiopa	3 692	4 945	33,94%
Afghanistan	3 086	4 179	35,42%
Cuba	1 855	2 471	33,21%
Yemen	1 849	2 676	44,73%
Cameroon	1 817	1 952	7,43%
Uzbekistan	1 766	2 351	33,13%
Mozambique	1 686	2 232	32,38%
Myanmar	1 536	2 204	43,49%
Madagascar	1 164	1 708	46,74%
North Korea	406	526	29,56%
Total	53 608 066	59 776 835

Google insert Ads in Google Analytics

2008-01-10T14:38:00.000-05:00

I was quite surprised today to see Ads for the Google Adwords Optimizer in my Google Analytics page. As I was digging for problem on one of my customers, to see this was a bit discusting specialy because they don't use the normal Ads by Google text.

Facebook statistics : Slow down in the north countries

2008-01-09T00:55:00.000-05:00

Countries	08/12/07	08/01/08	month dif.
United States	22 366 340	22 856 520	2,19%
Canada	8 075 980	8 339 540	3,26%
United Kingdom	7 887 620	7 659 700	-2,89%
Turkey	2 192 340	2 601 100	18,64%
Australia	2 113 660	2 074 900	-1,83%
France	1 063 100	1 130 860	6,37%
Sweden	1 062 080	1 059 640	-0,23%
Norway	1 003 500	1 043 260	3,96%
South Africa	677 880	577 420	-14,82%
Columbia	622 900	668 400	7,30%
Mexico	531 480	583 800	9,84%
Egypt	512 640	580 620	13,26%
India	447 320	502 340	12,30%
Germany	417 940	425 580	1,83%
Singapore	352 700	380 560	7,90%
Israel	330 960	399 400	20,68%
New Zealand	284 700	270 260	-5,07%
Spain	275 020	288 560	4,92%
United Arab Emirates	248 820	261 840	5,23%
Malaysia	225 640	265 540	17,68%
Lebanon	217 440	249 680	14,83%
Italia	200 780	201 000	0,11%
Ireland	199 380	189 720	-4,85%
Switzerland	184 440	182 440	-1,08%
China	166 740	162 180	-2,73%
Netherlands	166 140	143 840	-13,42%
Saudi Arabia	162 760	179 040	10,00%
Pakistan	151 580	168 880	11,41%
Belgium	135 208	209 380	54,86%
Japan	124 500	128 840	3,49%
Greece	103 145	147 900	43,39%
Philippines	94 324	96 380	2,18%
Indonesia	82 280	95 660	16,26%
Brazil	70 112	81 200	15,81%
Venezuela	66 288	108 860	64,22%
Argentina	60 059	99 400	65,50%
Poland	56 652	65 802	16,15%
Taiwan	53 384	62 206	16,53%
Thailand	49 114	114 900	133,95%
Russia	49 047	60 780	23,92%
South Korea	45 789	77 400	69,04%
Dominican Replublic	43 000	49 020	14,00%
Nigeria	39 868	47 835	19,98%
Bangladesh	35 819	42 112	17,57%
Sri Lanka	30 948	36 633	18,37%
Peru	30 635	63 080	105,91%
Kenya	30 000	33 482	11,61%
Hungary	26 746	31 935	19,40%
Syria	26 309	30 877	17,36%
Portugal	24 597	28 876	17,40%
Morroco	22 442	29 530	31,58%
Guatemala	21 842	25 077	14,81%
Romania	21 694	25 527	17,67%
Vietnam	15 694	18 477	17,73%
Ukraine	14 856	17 625	18,64%
Ghana	11 323	13 225	16,80%
Iran	11 303	13 826	22,32%
Sudan	9 886	11 867	20,04%
Nepal	8 602	10 368	20,53%
Iraq	7 880	9 765	23,92%
Tunisia	7 093	9 678	36,44%
Tanzania	6 691	7 579	13,27%
Uganda	5 724	6 647	16,13%
Algeria	4 475	5 754	28,58%
Ethiopa	3 692	4 292	16,25%
Afghanistan	3 086	3 559	15,33%
Cuba	1 855	2 091	12,72%
Yemen	1 849	2 264	22,44%
Cameroon	1 817	1 645	-9,47%
Uzbekistan	1 766	2 069	17,16%
Mozambique	1 686	1 915	13,58%
Myanmar	1 536	1 833	19,34%
Madagascar	1 164	1 403	20,53%
North Korea	406	458	12,81%
Total	53 608 066	55 385 652	17,98%

Facebook users in Canada by province

2008-01-02T14:34:00.000-05:00

Province	Fb Users	Pop.	% of pop.
Yukon Territory	14 980	31115	48,14%
Nova Scotia	358 360	935106	38,32%
Alberta	1 066 460	3486767	30,58%
Ontario	3 821 920	12850636	29,74%
British Columbia	1 270 600	4402931	28,85%
Newfoundland	130 820	507475	25,77%
Northwest Territories	10 320	42425	24,32%
Saskatchewan	243 280	1003299	24,24%
Manitoba	268 060	1190400	22,51%
New Brunswick	166 100	750851	22,12%
Prince Edward Island	26 220	139103	18,84%
Quebec (french prov.)	905 840	7719993	11,73%
Nunavut	1 220	31127	3,91%
Total of canadians	8 284 180	33 091 228	25.03%

Data from Facebook users come from the Ad Center and the population numbers from Wikipedia.

User Generated StartUp : The Rules from/for Colique Lemeilleur

2007-12-17T20:35:00.000-05:00

From
- Get an unprecised idea
- Make the more noise around it
- Get in with a picture with a big figure, even if it's a miserable failure
- Get a minimal Alpha Server and wait for input of your users : That's the UGS
For
- Get a different buzz around-it with the king of the Video Trash
- Get a new serious competitor because you may be taken to much time on your personal face brand
and what you should have to put it on a few month ago !

Microsoft : The ostrich view on the Google rumble

2007-12-15T23:05:00.000-05:00

A nice view of the confontation between Microsoft and Google on this paper by Steve Lohr and Miguel Helft on the NYT !

Top 75 Countries in Facebook

2007-12-08T13:57:00.001-05:00

Country	08/12/2007
United States	22 366 340
Canada	8 075 980
United Kingdom	7 887 620
Turkey	2 192 340
Australia	2 113 660
France	1 063 100
Sweden	1 062 080
Norway	1 003 500
South Africa	677 880
Columbia	622 900
Mexico	531 480
Egypt	512 640
India	447 320
Germany	417 940
Singapore	352 700
Israel	330 960
New Zealand	284 700
Spain	275 020
United Arab Emirates	248 820
Malaysia	225 640
Lebanon	217 440
Italia	200 780
Ireland	199 380
Switzerland	184 440
China	166 740
Netherlands	166 140
Saudi Arabia	162 760
Pakistan	151 580
Belgium	135 208
Japan	124 500
Greece	103 145
Philippines	94 324
Indonesia	82 280
Brazil	70 112
Venezuela	66 288
Argentina	60 059
Poland	56 652
Taiwan	53 384
Thailand	49 114
Russia	49 047
South Korea	45 789
Dominican Replublic	43 000
Nigeria	39 868
Bangladesh	35 819
Sri Lanka	30 948
Peru	30 635
Kenya	30 000
Hungary	26 746
Syria	26 309
Portugal	24 597
Morroco	22 442
Guatemala	21 842
Romania	21 694
Vietnam	15 694
Ukraine	14 856
Ghana	11 323
Iran	11 303
Sudan	9 886
Nepal	8 602
Iraq	7 880
Tunisia	7 093
Tanzania	6 691
Uganda	5 724
Algeria	4 475
Ethiopa	3 692
Afghanistan	3 086
Cuba	1 855
Yemen	1 849
Cameroon	1 817
Uzbekistan	1 766
Mozambique	1 686
Myanmar	1 536
Madagascar	1 164
North Korea	406
Total	53 780 257

The country in green are not in the Advertiser statistics

Here is the percentage of population using Facebook

Country	Population	% of pop.
Canada	33 087 000	24,408%
Norway	4 727 777	21,226%
United Kingdom	60 587 300	13,019%
Sweden	9 150 000	11,607%
Australia	21 129 222	10,003%
Singapore	4 436 000	7,951%
United States	303 545 000	7,368%
New Zealand	4 249 600	6,699%
United Arab Emirates	4 380 000	5,681%
Lebanon	4 099 000	5,305%
Ireland	4 301 000	4,636%
Israel	7 208 520	4,591%
Turkey	74 877 000	2,928%
Switzerland	7 508 700	2,456%
France	64 102 140	1,658%
Columbia	44 055 000	1,414%
South Africa	48 577 000	1,395%
Belgium	10 457 000	1,293%
Netherlands	16 387 773	1,014%
Greece	11 147 000	0,925%
Malaysia	27 544 000	0,819%
Egypt	75 498 000	0,679%
Saudi Arabia	24 735 000	0,658%
Spain	45 116 894	0,610%
Germany	82 314 900	0,508%
Mexico	106 535 000	0,499%
Dominican Replublic	9 760 000	0,441%
Italia	59 206 382	0,339%
Hungary	10 053 000	0,266%
Venezuela	27 657 000	0,240%
Taiwan	22 935 000	0,233%
Portugal	10 623 000	0,232%
Guatemala	13 354 000	0,164%
Sri Lanka	19 299 000	0,160%
Argentina	39 531 000	0,152%
Poland	38 125 479	0,149%
Syria	19 929 000	0,132%
Peru	27 903 000	0,110%
Philippines	88 706 300	0,106%
Romania	21 438 000	0,101%
Japan	127 718 000	0,097%
South Korea	48 512 000	0,094%
Pakistan	161 930 000	0,094%
Kenya	37 538 000	0,080%
Thailand	62 828 706	0,078%
Morroco	31 224 000	0,072%
Tunisia	10 327 000	0,069%
Ghana	23 478 000	0,048%
India	1 169 016 000	0,038%
Brazil	185 130 000	0,038%
Indonesia	231 627 000	0,036%
Russia	142 499 000	0,034%
Ukraine	46 205 000	0,032%
Nepal	28 196 000	0,031%
Iraq	28 993 000	0,027%
Nigeria	148 093 000	0,027%
Sudan	38 560 000	0,026%
Bangladesh	158 665 000	0,023%
Uganda	30 884 000	0,019%
Vietnam	87 375 000	0,018%
Tanzania	40 454 000	0,017%
Cuba	11 268 000	0,016%
Iran	71 208 000	0,016%
Algeria	33 858 000	0,013%
China	1 322 413 000	0,013%
Afghanistan	27 145 000	0,011%
Cameroon	18 549 000	0,010%
Yemen	22 389 000	0,008%
Mozambique	21 397 000	0,008%
Uzbekistan	27 372 000	0,006%
Madagascar	19 683 000	0,006%
Ethiopa	77 127 000	0,005%
Myanmar	48 798 000	0,003%
North Korea	23 790 000	0,002%

The population data are from Wikipedia

Microsoft Live Search and Yahoo promote Fake Ads Site on first result page with undertaker domain parking company

2007-11-29T21:07:00.000-05:00

It will be the second aniversary of the death of ConstellationW3.com*. It was a collaborative blog in french were in Quebec we where between august 2002 and december 2005 two dozens of Web passionates of IT who was writing on that blog.

*It was sponsored by Michel Cartier a professor and researcher at the Department of Communications at the University of Quebec in Montreal and consultant in new information and communication technologies (NICT) for various companies and governments in both Europe and North America.

Now the surprise, a query on my name on Microsoft Live returns today for first result : ConstellationW3.com !

The domain name seem to have been purchased after the end of that blog more than a year after the site was closed, and this smart guy from Australia who use Switzerland server, have seems to study the old links pointing to our city and use it to put sponsored links to Montreal now.

Yahoo, also give me a third position and this, 23 months after the site was closed and where my name was never been there!

I don't really explain to be a mistake, just a deal with the undertaker domain parking company Sedoparking !

I'm Feeling lucky cost more than a hundred million to Google

2007-11-26T16:18:00.000-05:00

A bit surprizing !

Larry Page to get married : Pretty costly this wedding !

2007-11-15T16:43:00.000-05:00

Seem Goog don't like Lucy ;-)

I choose the wrong job!

2007-11-12T15:03:00.000-05:00

Too funny : Google options put masseuse in crowd of multimillionaires.

Facebook Pages Stats

2007-11-10T17:07:00.000-05:00

Quite good for focusing on different age segmentation with those statistics provide by the new FaceBook Pages !

Almost 25% of all the canadians are in Facebook !

2007-11-09T23:08:00.000-05:00

Exactly 7,759,540* Canadians have a profile on Facebook. If you look at the last demographic data (end of september 2007) of Statistics Canada we are 32,976,000, now. An huge percentage no ?

Well, theses numbers was also confirmed by the first FaceBook Camp held this week in Montreal, Quebec where, - in less than a week of promotion in... FaceBook Events -, we get almost 250 peoples met together with also some folks of Toronto and also as far as New York too.

In Quebec province (the only french province of the Canada) we have 749,740 profils in FaceBook which represent 10% of all the Québecois for a english interface social network!

*This number come from the FaceBook Social Ad of FaceBook witout any age restriction.

Google China : Other culture, other design

2007-11-05T15:29:00.000-05:00

Here is the new look of Google China.

Here a automatic translation of the new Google China homepage.

Myspace jump in the Google OpenSocial Network

2007-11-01T16:59:00.000-04:00

Nice move and it will make pressure on Facebook to jump in too. But I think it will wait after the launch of their ad platform.

Google Transit jump out to Canada

2007-10-31T00:25:00.000-04:00

And it is Vancouver the first of the canadian cities to be include in this handy feature :

View Larger Map

More than 20% of all the canadians are in Facebook

2007-10-21T09:23:00.001-04:00

The small ads network page The Flyers Pro give us the statistics of all of those countries include in the location dropbox !

Geo Targeting Clicks for Ads

2007-10-16T11:22:00.000-04:00

If the US dollar keep that pace may be the ads networks like Adwords/AdSense will have to manage the geolocation of clicks ?

Peter Kopimi take on the ifpi.com domain and giving back to Pirate Bay

2007-10-15T16:31:00.000-04:00

Too funny and a good lesson for domain's owner. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry - IFPI.com- (org site still here) have been transferred to The Pirate Bay and the accronym have been change to International Federation of Pirate Interests.

Hello Google

2007-10-11T13:15:00.000-04:00

Seem to be serious this time, the venue of the Google Phone and the stock price (wow $50 in 5 day) fly like the Google guys !

Google brains switch to Facebook !

2007-10-11T01:52:00.000-04:00

I think Larry, Sergey and Eric have to sit down and brainstorm now !

Almost 3 Canadians on ten have a profile on a social network !

2007-10-04T13:50:00.000-04:00

That's huge !

Nokia goes in the maps and local business for $ 8 billion

2007-10-01T13:37:00.000-04:00

Nokia throw out a press release from their hat, informing us that they will acquire Navteq for 8.1 billion dollars. Huge deal and a good step to the advertising market for mobile.

Navteq is the principal provider of maps for Google Maps and Google Earth and a few other. I'd love to hear something form Google about this deal !

More information about that huge deal here.

Facebook & Microsoft Deal : Why not a advertising platform for local and mid-size advertisers instead ?

2007-09-26T17:45:00.001-04:00

The Facebook platform have been at this place in the top place in the Web since few months in America for two reasons :

A developers platform . Great viral effect and massive new applications developed since end of may.
The switch of the primary focus clientele from colleges to everyone.

But where is the money ! For now, more than half seem to come from insignificant ads from Microsoft. And now, they will sell 5% to MSFT ?

After seen the possible with MSFT, I was wondering why the Facebook team are so dependant of Microsoft for their revenues ? They got a huge community divide in a lot of cities network with a lot of open profile. Why they not start their own advertising platform instead ?

You got the answer ? Please comment on it down here.

Google and Baidu stocks are going very well

2007-09-25T16:35:00.000-04:00

After Apple, it's Baidu (China leader search engine) who go very well in the last year, is stock growing from around 80 to $300 while Google goes with new all-time high.

For the search engine market shares of China, Baidu still have the lead by far :

Google Web2Print new tool

2007-09-24T15:10:00.000-04:00

A new tool to compose your Ad for the Google's print network (225 of U.S.-based newspapers) have been quietly released last week. Here how it's look like.

Nice acquisition for Google

2007-09-24T11:23:00.000-04:00

The guy behind one of the best latest project of Yahoo who surprized me a lot and the only one I use everyday have been hired by Google. Hope will seen that kind of RSS aggregator going out as a new service at Google.

Google Shared Stuff

2007-09-21T11:10:00.000-04:00

A good article with the best and worst of this new service launched a bit to soon in my opinion.

New York Times goes free and open up their archives

2007-09-18T11:48:00.000-04:00

Finally another one catch-it up ! I laughed a bit specially reading this part of the article :

“What wasn’t anticipated was the explosion in how much of our traffic would be generated by Google, by Yahoo and some others,” Ms. Schiller said.

They will be suprised a lot in a few month if I compare this to a small newspaper from Montreal who I managed to make their archives really easy to crawl with a bit of SEO. The traffic from Google grew from 4,000 UV/month to around 600,000/month !

Facebook launching a new business model

2007-09-17T21:58:00.000-04:00

Interesting concept to promote a platform. I think it was time to make a clean-up and to try to manage the thousands of all kind of sometimes stupid application in there !

Panoramio photos now in Google Maps

2007-09-14T10:00:00.000-04:00

After Google Earth it's now the turn of Google Maps to embed photos from Panoramio. You'll have to check the Panoramio box on the left side column to display it.

PS: A got one here, the orange sunset.

Lenovo goes really green

2007-09-13T21:20:00.000-04:00

Lenovo, who acquire IBM’s Personal Computing Division less than 3 year ago, is one of the first company producing electronic devices to go really in the green manufacturing.

Not only his new desktop use only 45 watts of power, it also can be use with a solar panel to provide energy input and also contains up to 90% of reusable and recyclable materials and 90% recyclable packaging.

Wow ! The others will have to follow soon !

Google Drive up for the ninth's birthday of Google ?

2007-09-12T13:55:00.000-04:00

Seem to be soon and the 27 september seem a good date where Google will turn nine !

Google Reader add finally the search feature

2007-09-06T12:34:00.000-04:00

Great!!!! The new search functions allow you to search in :

All your items
The starred items
The sharred items
The sub-category generated by your tag
The individual RSS feed
The use of classical search operator ( OR |, " ", -)

Very nice. Here a few other thing they should add in it :

A vacation button to stop the aggregator with a calendar option
A way to classify the post on the same subject with your historical click preference to sort the most click at the top and gray out the bottom one automatically
A RSS feed at the end of a query in Reader. With that, you can extract some nice data from multiple or single feed and share those results for users who don't use google Reader.

Google Bug : Interface language affect a lot the positionning of the results

2007-08-29T20:58:00.000-04:00

Another weird bug at Google almost unknown. The language of the interface modify a lot the positionning of the results even of local declinaisons. (like google.ca, google.fr, etc).
Here a example with Google.com : http://www.google.com/search?&q=top%20challenge%20montreal%202007

My picture blog (vupar.blogspot.com) on this query got the 25e position.

But now, go to the preference and change the Interface Language to French :

Get back in the first page of results : Tadam ! Vupar.blogspot now showing in first place !

Soem countries like Switzerland or India have a lot of common language used there. Not very easy to know in which position a page are ?!?

Note: If you don't wan't to pass by the preference you can add &hl=en (english) or &hl=fr (french) at the end of the resulting URL

Odd Google suggestion

2007-08-16T11:41:00.000-04:00

Sometimes all the products can't be use used ;-)

Martin Bouchard is now president of Mamma

2007-01-24T12:01:00.000-05:00

Good news for that meta search engine. I met this guy a few years ago when he was at Copernic and i'm pretty sure he will dynamize that company. Good luck Martin.

Technorati Tags: mamma, copernic, martin+bouchard

AskX : Really nice and a good backup to Google

2006-12-22T12:53:00.000-05:00

Quite a good job for the Ask team who release Ask X 4 day ago. This will be a very good second place to test your query and a good tool for recherchist.

Technorati Tags: ask+x, google, search+engine

Mamma launch a metasearch for video

2006-12-12T11:40:00.000-05:00

Nicely done and the results seem good. Mamma Video search in ; YouTube, Revver.com, Guba, stupidVideos.com, Grouper, EVTV1, Addicting Clips, Aol.com, Flixya, Encyclomedia, DailyMotion, Blastro, BusinessWeek, Reuters, Sharkle, Roo Media, USA Today and Metacafe.
Where is Google Video ?

Technorati Tags: mamma+video, video+search, multimedia+search

My favorite Christmas jingle

2006-12-01T21:59:00.000-05:00

So surprising and well done !

Aljazeera got a 8

2006-11-14T23:06:00.000-05:00

NYT got a 10, CNN a 9, Washington Post a 8 and the new Aljazeera in english got a 8.

* PageRank at Google

Google Earth and Maps new features

2006-11-08T19:24:00.000-05:00

Earth

Google Earth now allow you to trace transparent polygons over the maps in his free version and even put your own picture over it.

Maps

Now you can put your Google Earth files over Google Maps. This will allow you to put *your* information layer over the Google Maps. I make a fast test map to see all the possibilities offer by that new feature. Click on the Belvédère link in the left column to see what you can do with it !

Technorati Tags: google+earth, google+maps

Lowest cost per customer acquisition : Internet Search

2006-11-04T15:15:00.000-05:00

A study from Piper Jaffray & Co named The New eCommerce Decade: The Age of Micro Targeting show us thoses data :

Average Cost Per Customer Acquisition
Internet Search	$8.50
Yellow Pages	$20.0
Online Display Ads	$50.0
E-Mail	$60.0
Direct Mail	$70.0

sIFR2 : Scalable Inman Flash Replacement 2 now open source

2006-11-01T15:31:00.000-05:00

I saw that new technology more than 2 year ago. I give a try for one client, but in that time the server was not enough powerful to serve the replacement of the text in the Flash file for that mid-size traffic site.

Now it seem to work nice with the version 2 of that technology. And the good news it's now open source, under the CC-GNU LGPL license, so anyone can use it free of charge.

Here a live example of the technology use at the Journal Le Devoir, a site who get around 500,000 visitors each month.

Technorati Tags: sifr, flash,

Google Custom Search Engine

2006-10-23T20:57:00.000-04:00

Suppose to be launch tomorrow. A scoop from ... the Financial Time !
Hard to tell if it will be a mix of Google IG, Google Alert and Google Adwords Search for your own vertical search plus a taginng function. Here is the most interesting part of this article :

Users of Google Custom Search Engine will be able to select the websites they want to be included in their searches, and add to this list in future by “tagging” websites they visit. Any searches will then return results just from that slice of the Google search index.

On your browser tomorrow !

Update 24/10 01:30 : A big shit not worth much than half of Northern Light have made in 2000 ! Marissa you should shut-up sometimes !

Technorati Tags: Google+Custom+Search+Engine

PhishTank : Nice initiative

2006-10-03T14:05:00.000-04:00

http://www.phishtank.com/ is a repository for phishing emails with an open API. Go to the Mathew Ingram post on it to have more information.

Technorati Tags: phishing, Phistank, opendns