Interesting video on change September 19, 2007
Posted by rebeccaperez in demographics, presentation, statistics.2 comments
One of my professors sent this to me. Kind of scary, but definitely shows the need for what we are doing.
Research audience September 7, 2007
Posted by kristindero in demographics, statistics.1 comment so far
Hey guys-
I just received a box full of research stuff from Charlotte-Anne and four years worth of survey information from another professore that asked students to list their news sources in order of importance. I will be looking everything over and briefly summarizing my findings for you all soon. I just wanted to make sure that our target audience was college students/ 18-30 year olds. If so, then this could be truly useful information to us and the presentation (marketing side).
I will be in California this week getting behind in school but accelerating my career. I will be around for the conference call and I am interested if you all have any other feedback about our target audience so I can start crunching numbers!!! okay, love you bye!
BuiltWith: Technology Researchers’ Dream Site September 7, 2007
Posted by Brian in announcements, statistics, tools.3 comments
For those doing the technology research, the fantastic site BuiltWith breaks down a site to show you what exactly it is … built with.
For those who are curious …
Rockchucks – Innovation Incubator
Analytics and Tracking
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Google Analytics offers a host of compelling features and benefits for everyone from senior executives and advertising and marketing professionals to site owners and content developers. Other popular sites using Google Analytics include globalsurfari.com, gennit.com, wordpress.com, readwriteweb.com, billycorgan.info and g2007.com. 36.93% of the top 5000 profiled sites use Google Analytics. |
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Provides Quantcast with tracking information about rockchucks.wordpress.com which the user can access. Other popular sites using Quantcast Tracking include wordpress.com, ebin.wordpress.com, 43folders.com, getbasil.com, seeqpod.com and emetrics.org. 1.31% of the top 5000 profiled sites use Quantcast Tracking. |
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Tells owners of rockchucks.wordpress.com how many people are visiting the site, where they are coming from and what’s most interesting to them. Other popular sites using WordPress Stats include wordpress.com, g2007.com, ebin.wordpress.com, nilshammar.wordpress.com and etceterapodcast.com. 0.71% of the top 5000 profiled sites use WordPress Stats. |
Widgets
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Adds a small preview window to external hyperlinks using SNAP Preview Anywhere technology. 0.58% of the top 5000 profiled sites use SNAP Preview Anywhere. |
Blog Publishing
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WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. Other popular sites using WordPress include billycorgan.info, g2007.com, ebin.wordpress.com, 43folders.com, blog.builtwith.com and anhdres.com. 4.87% of the top 5000 profiled sites use WordPress. |
Frameworks
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PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Other popular sites using PHP include cakephp.org, getbasil.com, simplespark.com, engadget.com, realsurf.com and phpbb.com. 40.42% of the top 5000 profiled sites use PHP. |
Aggregation Functionality
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rockchucks.wordpress.com supports RSS; a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts. Other popular sites using RSS include gennit.com, wordpress.com, readwriteweb.com, billycorgan.info, g2007.com and ebin.wordpress.com. 24.41% of the top 5000 profiled sites use RSS. |
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Provides a location where rockchucks.wordpress.com provides a list of other documents that it contains such as web logs, photos etc.. 0.2% of the top 5000 profiled sites use Atom Introspection. |
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A Pingback is one of three types of Linkbacks, methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. Other popular sites using Pingback Support include billycorgan.info, g2007.com, ebin.wordpress.com, 43folders.com, blog.builtwith.com and yongfook.com. 5.07% of the top 5000 profiled sites use Pingback Support. |
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Really Simple Discovery is a way to help client software find the services needed to read, edit, or “work with” weblogging software. Other popular sites using Really Simple Discovery include wordpress.com, billycorgan.info, g2007.com, ebin.wordpress.com, 43folders.com and blog.builtwith.com. 7.41% of the top 5000 profiled sites use Really Simple Discovery. |
Document Information
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rockchucks.wordpress.com claims XHTML strict status (check). XHTML Strict is the same as HTML 4.01 Strict but follows XML guidelines. See the link for more information. |
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The defer attribute gives a hint to the browser that the script does not create any content so the browser can optionally defer interpreting the script. This can improve performance by delaying execution of scripts until after the body content is parsed and rendered. |
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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML |
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JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development. Its proper name is ECMAScript, though “JavaScript” is much more commonly used. rockchucks.wordpress.com uses JavaScript. |
Encoding
UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.
Google Going for the Gooold August 21, 2007
Posted by Brian in data display, mashups, software, statistics, tools.add a comment
People want to know how they’re connected. But we don’t have a clear-cut means of doing so yet.
Google is developing a social network aggregator. (This, of course, means that social sites existing as walled-gardens would be out of the loop. I wonder how many will open up after this?) Google wants to be the main provider of a social graph (a big visualization of how everyone is connected). Google also realizes that “[p]eople are getting sick of registering and re-declaring their friends on every site, but also: Developing ‘Social Applications’ is too much work.”
The man who founded LiveJournal left for Google, and he has some ideas for the social graph himself:
- Open-source software for such graphing
- Decentralization of information for such graphing
- Right-after-sign-up addition of “old information” to new network
- Syncing multiple sites for a user
- Not to replace _____
And has anyone heard of FOAF, the Friend of a Friend Project? It’s going to try to show how you’re related to everyone else, which sounds like XFN, the XML Friends Network, which links people by metadata.
The Dero’s Plan for week two August 13, 2007
Posted by kristindero in announcements, statistics.add a comment
I plan to continue looking deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole known as demographic statistics. I have found Pew to be the most helpful site thus far. I will focus study on our target market to try and find where they visit and why. By doing so, I will try to find a problem that needs to be solved with our massive brain power. Best of luck to you and yours.
Pew Research August 13, 2007
Posted by jonathan686 in statistics.1 comment so far
Ars technica has an analysis of the latest pew research survey report.
The report indicates that online news consumers tend to be dissatisfied with mainstream media, suggesting that distrust not convenience has brought them to the Web.
The Internet news audience is even more critical of news organizations as a whole. “The internet news audience is particularly likely to criticize news organizations for their lack of empathy, their failure to ’stand up for America,’ and political bias,” reads the report. “Roughly two-thirds (68%) of those who get most of their news from the internet say that news organizations do not care about the people they report on, and 53% believe that news organizations are too critical of America.” Comparatively, only 53 percent of the general public believes that news organizations don’t care about the people they report on, and 43 percent believes that they’re too critical of America.
More Demographic Stats August 12, 2007
Posted by kristindero in statistics.add a comment
I found lots of stats on the people who are already using online news sources but finding information on the magic 18-34 demographic has been tough. Here is what I have found thus far.
The Newspaper Association of America http://www.marketingvox.com/archives/2007/05/09/newspaper-website-audience-a-coveted-demographic/ has stats showing that there has been a percent increase in online news traffic over the past year (according to Nielsen).
Needless to say we know that there is a need to get the younger demographics on Internet news sites.
This latest study says that Internet is the only medium consumed during the daytime for 30 percent of at-work Internet users. Working mothers focus on both weather and local information during the day.
It looks like there maybe a problem to solve in the younger and lower income demographics since most news consumers have higher education and incomes. Just a thought.
China to Deploy World’s Largest People Tracking Network August 12, 2007
Posted by Rob Ponte in crowdsourcing, statistics.3 comments
From Slashdot:
News.com reports that China is building the largest and most sophisticated people-tracking network in the world, all to track citizens in the city of Shenzhen. This network utilizes 20,000 intelligent digital cameras and RFID cards to keep track of the 12.4 million people living in the Southern port city. The key to the system is the new residency cards fitted with powerful computer chips. ‘Data on the chip will include not just the citizen’s name and address but also work history, educational background, religion, ethnicity, police record, medical insurance status and landlord’s phone number. Even personal reproductive history will be included, for enforcement of China’s controversial “one child” policy. Plans are being studied to add credit histories, subway travel payments and small purchases charged to the card.’ While I lived in Shenzhen, there indeed were (and still are) plenty of crimes. One of my friend who lived at the 20th floor of a condo building in a nice neighborhood saw an intruder in the middle of one night while he was sleeping. Still, this will clearly raise the fear of human rights abuses. And … ‘ one of the most startling aspects of this plan is that this project is mostly made possible by an American company with solid venture fundings.
Kind of an interesting semi-related development in croudsourcing. Maybe we should look into latent crowdsourcing? Like what transportation engineers and city planners or police and fire agencies might use to determine where to build a freeway or plan patrol routes, but on a community-action level. This obviously has human rights implications but what kind of similar data would we be able to get access to here in the states? And how useful would it be to communities?
Rob
trendalyzer August 12, 2007
Posted by jonathan686 in software, statistics.1 comment so far
From the always excellent Ted Talks: Hans Rosling’s latest presentation of his trendalyzer software.
Study Finds “Internet News Audience Highly Critical of News Organizations” August 11, 2007
Posted by Brian in statistics.add a comment
Mainstream media outlets are highly criticized by Internet news audiences, according to a 22-year-long study by the Pew Research Center.
In addition to users’ finding that stories were inaccurate, the most-berated aspects of such news sources include “their lack of empathy, their failure to ’stand up for America,’ and political bias.”
Look at the full study for more information, but I’ll sum it up in this post a bit later tonight. This has a busy weekend for me, and I’ve not gotten a chance to look through some things completely. Please accept my apologies
