Archive for July, 2006

Question: What social networking site generated 80% of the traffic?

Answer: MySpace.

MySpace vs Google Hitwise

Jeff Clavier reported today that MySpace surpassed Yahoo in terms of traffic according to Hitwise. This makes MySpace the number one Internet site. According to Jeff:

  • MySpace generated 4.45% of all U.S. internet visits
  • Top twenty search terms used were related to MySpace

News Corp paid $580MM for the web property last year, in a deal increasingly looking like a bargain. Only time will tell, but this sort of growth is amazing.


WordCamp – WordPress Conference Announced!

Save August 5th, 2006 for WordCamp in San Francisco.  The day long event will feature a free conference, BBQ for lunch, free WordPress t-shirts and a day packed with user and developer discussions.  Matt is still working out details like venue, but it promises to be a great event for the WordPress community.


Like It Matters, Now In WordPress

I’ve always loved having Like It Matters as my personal blog to use to cover subjects not quite right for Weblogs Work.  Now, I’ve finally started some clean-up on that site, moved it to a more logical URL (http://www.brianoberkirch.com) and started fresh with the latest version of WordPress.  Playing with themes now, but maybe I’ll get one of my rockstar design pals to do something funky fresh at some point.

Here is the new blog.  Here is the new feed.