Geoff Jones

Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life

Category: Twitters

Myspace statistics

Marketwatch have just released this “The social networking
phenomenon also continued its stratospheric ascent, as MySpace.com reached new
heights with 50 million visitors in May [2006]” that is virtually the equivalent of the whole UK population visiting the site in one month!

Youtube is ramping up as well “YouTube.com nearly doubled its
traffic from April, reaching 12.6 million visitors.” It will be interesting to see when Beet.tv starts to appear in the ratings.

Bonus link: You tube dominates video search

More with nice graphs here

The Jeff Pulver Blog: The Internet Tax May Be Creeping Up on Us in the Guise of Imposing the Universal Service Fund on Internet-delivered Voice Applic

The Jeff Pulver Blog: The Internet Tax May Be Creeping Up on Us in the Guise of Imposing the Universal Service Fund on Internet-delivered Voice Applications: “The voice application riding on the broadband network is being asked to be the application subject to paying into the Universal Service Fund”

Just love this “The voice application riding on the broadband network” those good old telecomm operators must turn in their graves on that statement. Wonder what Doc Searls thinks about that

Gaping Void Mug shot


Gaping Void Mug shot
Originally uploaded by geofones.

Hughs mug finally arrived from cafepress today (article number 60517719 – (all though a search on cafepress denies its existence!) it was ordered on 3rd June so not bad delivery from the USA

Really quite amazing that Hugh set up the online shop from scratch in about 5mins on his laptop in the hotel lounge at Copenhagen.

Not so rare – Face Blindness

Interesting site (run by UCL and Harvard) that I came across through Mind Hacks today dealing with Prosopagnosia or face blindness. Results they have produced show that it can affect 2% of the population

This is something that I can certainly relate too “One of the telltale signs of prosopagnosia is great reliance on non-facial information such as hair, gait, clothing, voice, and other
information” and as anyone who has sat through a film with me can attest “they have trouble following the plot of television shows and movies, because they cannot keep track of the identity of the characters“.

What is interesting is that researchers can now access a much wider range of research subjects than in the past by using sites such as their one, rather than only using people who had suffered some traumatic event, which is not true in my case (as far as I am aware!)

I filled in their form will be interesting to see what happens.