According to Gartner’s June 23 press release discussing their phishing report: Approximately 77 percent of online Americans shopped online in the 12 months ended in May 2005, according to Gartner. An estimated 73 percent of respondents regularly logged on to banking accounts and 63 percent paid bills online. Amazing stats, eh? Much higher than I’d [...]
Entries from July 6th, 2005
Reading Feeds
July 6th, 2005 No Comments
According to this NYT article, Visitors to nytimes.com via R.S.S. feeds has soared from about 500,000 a month at the end of 2003, to 7.3 million last April, said Toby Usnik, the New York Times Company’s director of public relations. Note it’s the PR director. All companies should make company news available via — clearly [...]
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My Head Is Buzzing
July 6th, 2005 2 Comments
OK, I admit it. I’ve never understood how Yahoo! Buzz works. I’ve just decided it’s one of those things I’m not supposed to understand, like financial accounting. I think my math skills should transfer, but they don’t. Maybe Swaroop C H can explain it to me (Buzz, not accounting). Given that, Buzz did something with [...]
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Would Dr. Atkins Delete Cookies?
July 5th, 2005 No Comments
I haven’t seen it discussed anywhere, but Jupiter did a follow-up survey to their report on cookie deletion. The goal was to give some context around the profile of the cookie deleter. While the summary from the report is that the longer you’ve been on-line, the more likely you are to delete cookies, there’s a [...]
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I’m a Million-air
July 5th, 2005 2 Comments
I’ve been a frequent flyer on American Airlines for many years. I didn’t know it at the time, but while I was flying back to San Jose from the east coast last month, I had accumulated over a million miles on American since I joined the program. Last week I got a letter from them, [...]
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