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Social network giant Facebook has announced that it has registered its 500 millionth member – one in 13 of the entire global population.

The site, which launched in 2004, has gained around 100 million new users in the last six months alone. Facebook said the number was “an important milestone” and added that it was “humbled and inspired” by the stories of its users.

BBC News – One in 13 people on the planet now use Facebook.

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Did you know that a recent survey found that adults now spend an average of 13 hours a week on the internet?  14% spend 24 or more hours a week online.

[Harris Interactive]

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1.2 Billion YouTube Videos a Day

From TechCrunch But the real number of streams/day, we’ve now confirmed with a source at Google, is above 1.2 billion/day worldwide. That matches what we’ve heard from other sources. That pretty much means everyone on the Internet, on average, is watching one YouTube video per day.

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Top Ten Fastest Rising Google Searches [2008]

What have people been searching for this year? Google has published its yearly Zeitgeist containing the fastest rising search terms for a number of categories, including; News, Politics, Books and Images.   Fastest Rising (Global) sarah palin beijing 2008 facebook login tuenti heath ledger obama nasza klasa wer kennt wen euro 2008 jonas brothers [Google Zeitgeist]

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What is RSS?

“RSS is a family of web feed formats, specified in XML and used for Web syndication. RSS is used by (among other things) news websites, weblogs and podcasting. The abbreviation is variously used to refer to the following standards: Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91) RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0) Really Simple Syndication (RSS [...]

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Webaholism

“Webaholism is a dependency on the world-wide web (internet) characterized by craving (a strong need to use the internet for web browsing and chatting), loss of control (being unable to stop staying away from the internet despite a desire to do so), loss of interest in everything else.”

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