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Have you ever wondered why this message appears when a page you’re looking for on the web can’t be found? I always figured it was because some developer thought that was an appropriately useful message and just left it at that. Well I was wrong. Here’s the interesting story of Room 404. Be patient, they give you a fake 404 page before you’re redirected to the story.
In my opinion, at least one newspaper is starting to get it. The Washington Post recently opened up it’s content for others to remix, or mashup. They’ve launched a blog called Post Remix to showcase the mashups people come up with, using the Post’s content. My favorite is Ripped From the Headlines, a daily quiz, generated from the day’s headlines.
I hope it’s successful and we start seeing other major papers follow their lead. Congratualtions Washington Post!
A new report from the Pew/Internet American Life Project reveals search engine usage has now become as much a part of daily life as email for most Americans.
The report shows 91 percent of American Internet users make email a part of their online experience, and 90 percent of this same population also use search engines.
On a daily basis, 74 million Americans use email and 60 million use search engines. This new search engine statistic represents a 55 percent increase over figures from just a year ago (see ClickZ article, also).
A story from eMarketer now confirms that the Web has moved into second place as the favorite shopping venue for holiday consumers. The study was commissioned by Deloitte.
Consumers were asked to name their favorite shopping venue. Discount department stores were the number one response at 57 percent, but the Internet was a strong second at 44 percent. The Internet edged out traditional department stores which were named by 42 percent of respondents. As the article points out, it was only 20 years ago that traditional department stores were named by 67 percent as the favorite place to do holiday shopping. Things have changed a great deal.
The article tracks 15 retail destination categories in compiling their favorites list.
Diggdot.us is a terrific new mashup site that combines three of the best sites that highlight what’s popular, Slashdot, Digg and del.icio.us/popular. If you’re one of those people who can lose three hours clicking links on del.icio.us, or reading every comment on a single slashdot post, this site is for you! It’s everything you love, in one place.
While Digg and Slashdot tend to favor more technology and “geeky” news, del.icio.us/popular gives you a slice of what people are bookmarking right now. Diggdot.us provides a nice service, where you get a little taste of everything that the three sites have to offer. The best thing, they’ve got an RSS feed.
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