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class='feedflare' href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=http://mashable.com/2010/02/26/state-of-internet/&title=Remarkable Stats on the State of the Internet [VIDEO]&srcTitle=Mashable&srcUrl=http://mashable.com">Individual stats like Facebook passing the href="http://mashable.com/2010/02/04/facebook-400-million/">400 million user mark, Twitter hitting href="http://mashable.com/2010/02/22/twitter-50-million-tweets/">50 million tweets per day, and YouTube viewers watching href="http://mashable.com/2009/10/09/youtube-billion-views/">1 billion videos per day are impressive on their own, but what if we looked at Internet-related stats collectively? href="http://twitter.com/jess3" target="_blank">Jesse Thomas did just that in his video State of the Internet.

The video — created and animated by Thomas with data from multiple sources — highlights some remarkable figures and visually depicts the Internet as we know it today. It’s a must-watch video for anyone trying to wrap their minds around just how immersed web technologies have become in our everyday lives.

You can watch the video below, but we’ve also included some of the most intriguing figures shared in the video:

- There are 1.73 billion Internet users worldwide as of September 2009.

- There are 1.4 billion e-mail users worldwide, and on average we collectively send 247 billion e-mails per day. Unfortunately 200 billion of those are spam e-mails.

- As of December 2009, there are 234 million websites.

- Facebook gets 260 billion pageviews per month, which equals 6 million page views per minute and 37.4 trillion pageviews in a year.

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class='feedflare' href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=http://mashable.com/2010/02/26/nokia-symbian/&title=First Glimpse of Nokia’s Symbian 4 Operating System [VIDEO]&srcTitle=Mashable&srcUrl=http://mashable.com">Besides being the most awkwardly named mobile operating system ever, Symbian^4 (that’s the official name) is also a very important step for Nokia, who (although Symbian still dominates the worldwide smartphone market) has been struggling to make Symbian competitive with touch-friendly Android and iPhone OS.

Now, href="http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/checking-out-symbian-4-nokias-response-iphone/2010-02-24" target="_blank">Fierce Wireless has managed to briefly try out the upcoming iteration of Symbian, as well as a couple of videos and yes, it really does look like Android and iPhone OS UI. Two short videos (embedded below) show some Android-style widgets, sliding screens, a scrolling photo app – in a nutshell, it’s nothing that’ll make your heart skip a beat. But in terms of Symbian catching up with its younger competitors, it seems good enough.

Bear in mind that Symbian 4 is expected to be released in the second half of 2010, with actual devices shipping in 2011, so we can probably expect many changes before the final version comes out.

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Efficiency is a business school idea that suggests a company is running smoothly. It’s absolutely terrific when you’re talking about a coal mining operation or a Supercuts. But when it comes to a company like Yahoo it’s not a positive. The Internet is still in its wild west days, and the “ready, fire, aim” game plan of Facebook and the other young guns is eating their lunch. Even the massive Google is still trying to shake things up with new and controversial products.

Yahoo’s strategy seems more like “ready, aim, aim, aim, aim…”

Yesterday Jordan Rohan at Thomas Weisel Partners described Yahoo in his first analyst report on the company. He thinks this is the right management team to bring more efficiency to Yahoo. But he spends most of his time talking about the negatives, and there’s no excitement around new products or ideas:

For the record, we happen to believe the current management team is the right one at this stage in Yahoo!’s corporate evolution. The team is bringing efficiency to a massively inefficient company. Yahoo! is weighed down today by dozens of code bases, thousands of revenue-producing properties, at least three sales force factions (display, search, ad network), and a few thousand “extra” employees needed to run the media company today due to its complicated legacy assets and far-flung acquisitions.

When Jason Kincaid tried out the iPhone app online music streaming startup Grooveshark built and showed off in July 2009, he wrote that it was great but that he “wouldn’t expect this to pop up in the App Store any time soon”. He was right on both counts.

Grooveshark now says it has given up on its ambitions to get approved for the official App Store, claiming that Apple has been “ritually rejecting” the app for “primary selfish reasons”. We’ve heard that song before.

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Ever since the tragic incident at SeaWorld on Thursday, the top Google search term has invariably been “killer whale kills trainer footage” — meaning that many Internet surfers have been keen on getting a morbid glimpse of Brancheau’s death. Hackers have lunged at this surge in attention, in much the same way that they did following Nodar Kumaritashvili’s href="http://mashable.com/2010/02/15/olympic-luge-malware/">fatal luge accident at the Winter Olympics.

According to IT security and control firm Sophos, hackers are creating webpages that seem to contain imagery of the gruesome death, but, in actuality, merely infest a user’s computer with malware. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos, told href="http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/40156/" target="_blank">Info Zine:

“It’s hard to believe that anyone would want to watch video footage of this horrible death, but it’s currently one of the very hottest search terms on the internet.. These poisoned pages can appear on the very first page of your search engine’s results, and if you visit the links you may see pop-up warnings telling you about security issues with your computer. These warnings are fake and designed to trick you into downloading dangerous software or handing over your credit card details.”

At least one prankster has taken a less wantonly cruel approach to the heightened interest in the tragedy. Currently, one of the most-viewed videos on YouTube (with 179,449 views), the below vid purports to be tourist footage of the accident, when, in reality, it’s a Rickroll. The video begins with a speech bubble reading “Hey you morbid person!” The whole thing would have been interesting commentary on our rubber-necking society, if the video didn’t go on to pump some unknown band.

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Hamburg, Germany based Qype, a Yelp-like site that’s focused on European markets, has recently had long acquisition looks from both Google and Nokia, we’ve heard from multiple sources. A deal with Nokia in particular was looking extremely likely until recently.

The site was first launched in 2005 and today attracts 9 million monthly worldwide visitors, according to Comscore, just a little less than Yelp’s 11 million. Both likely have far more actual visitors, but Comscore is good for comparision - in December, for example, Qype told us they had 17.7 million unique visitors. A year ago the company brought in a new CEO and have been expanding rapidly across Europe.

Google supposedly took a look at the company and passed, opting instead to just import Qype’s content. Nokia made a run for the company after Google, with one source saying that a term sheet had been signed in the $50 million range.

SYS-CON Events announced today that Hubspan, a leading provider of cloud-based business integration solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19–21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City and SYS-CON’s 7th International Cloud Expo 2010 West, which will take place on November 1–3, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo has been the world’s leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
Hubspan is the leading provider of cloud-based business integration solutions, helping companies automate business processes across internal and external communities. Hubspan’s flagship solution is the WebSpan SaaS Integration Platform. An enterprise-class solution, WebSpan combines Hubspan’s innovative, cloud-based platform and managed services with IBM WebSphere integration software. Thousands of companies, from small enterprises to the Fortune 500, successfully use the platform every day for secure, reliable and scalable business integration.

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