One of the things I love most about the end of a year is seeing what this most measurable medium, called the internet, can deliver us in terms of data. I love to learn what people Googled, what they Instagrammed, what they Tweeted, and what they Facebooked over a calendar year.

Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion this week! Surprised?

The United Kingdom is known best known for its Royals, football, bad teeth, bad weather and the Beatles.Now a video produced by UK social media firm Simply Zesty shows how the phenomenon has spread across the masses in the monarch.

Like most programmers, my out of work time is still spent online - surfing, searching, learning and entertaining myself and others.   With the 2010 FIFA World Cup around the corner, KAYWEB staff are blogging our favourite time-consuming websites which will hopefully help keep Aussies awake while they sit around between matches and burn the midnight oil.

The COMSCORE Australia social networking usage study (August 2009) shows an overwhelming graph of statistics.   A more than 1000% growth of Twitter over Facebook causes different reactions; some are happy to know that over 800,000 Aussies are now active on Twitter, while other consider this a typical figure for the later-released Twitter, which is still way behind the 6,000,000 Australian users of Facebook. While the first finding's reasons can be argued, the next finding cannot. That