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June 27, 2007
YouTube Has Twice the Traffic of All Other Services Combined?
Interesting analysis over at LeAnn's Prescott's Hitwise blog today - she claims
As of May 2007, YouTube's market share was 50% greater than those 64 sites combined.
(The "64 sites" are unspecified). She also includes the following chart showing the Top 10 video sites in terms of traffic.
this only includes site visits, not streams or streams from views on embedded videos
Without this key piece of data, her study inflates the views and is really an apples-to-oranges comparison. Sites like Blip and Revver use their embedded player all over, yet neither shows on her list in the Top10.
Color me skeptical.
Tags: Hitwise, Revver, Blip.tv, video, YouTube
Posted by davehod at 05:27 PM | Comments (1)
June 11, 2007
Yosemite Bears
We spent the weekend in Yosemite and the dry winter is having an impact on the resident bear population -- the bears are already running low on food so they are getting more aggressive about seeking out human food.
I've run into the occasional black bear but this year reached a new level with the rollout of boxes monitoring bears that have been outfitted with radio collars. The device pictured below detects the presence of a collared bear and immediately communicates with the Park Rangers on duty (kind of a BearWatch HQ).
There was also a rockslide at 4am on Friday (6/8) evening at Curry Village, luckily no injuries were reported. I was not able to find any links on the web about the slide
Tags: yosemite
Posted by davehod at 02:40 PM | Comments (1)