Kevin Kelly. Internet 2011 in numbers. So what happened with the Internet in 2011? How many email accounts were there in the world in 2011? How many websites? How much did the most expensive domain name cost? How many photos were hosted on Facebook? How many videos were viewed to YouTube? We’ve got answers to these questions and many more. A veritable smorgasbord of numbers, statistics and data lies in front of you.
Email Websites 555 million – Number of websites (December 2011).300 million – Added websites in 2011. Web servers 239.1% – Growth in the number of Apache websites in 2011.68.7% – Growth in the number of IIS websites in 2011.34.4% – Growth in the number of NGINX websites in 2011.80.9% – Growth in the number of Google websites in 2011. Domain names Internet users Social media Web browsers Mobile Videos Images What’s in store for 2012?
For 2012, there’s every reason to think that the Internet, by any measure, will keep growing. We will be back again early next year to wrap up 2012. SOPA, Internet Censorship Bill, Lauded By Both Parties In Key House Hearing. WASHINGTON -- At a House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, Democrats and Republicans joined together to voice support for legislation that would criminalize much of the activity that occupies the Internet. The bipartisan bill known as the Stop Online Piracy Act would establish major new powers for corporations intent on corralling copyrighted materials -- powers that would lead to big legal bills for start-ups and Silicon Valley giants alike. SOPA's Senate counterpart, the PROTECT IP Act, was already voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee in September.
Both political parties -- flush with campaign contributions from Hollywood studios and trial lawyers -- are eager to pass the legislation. The Senate version, introduced in May, has broad support, but has been held up by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). Without Wyden's hold, the legislation looks certain to pass by a landslide. "I am very pleased that this is a bipartisan bill, and I think that that's very important," Conyers added. Alexander Howard: Internet Companies and Lawmakers Speak Out Against the Stop Online Piracy Act. If freedom of expression, privacy and innovation online matter to you, it's time to pay attention to what's happening in Congress right now. There's a gathering storm over bills proposed in the United States House of Representatives and Senate that have the potential to significantly hinder innovation, free speech and cybersecurity on the Internet in the name of fighting online piracy.
As the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) highlights in its new summary of the problems and implications H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act, "SOPA sweeps much more broadly and would chill online innovation and expression by creating major new litigation risks for service providers currently protected by the DMCA safe harbor. " SOPA is "really a Trojan horse that might be better named the Social Media Surveillance Act," said Leslie Harris, CEO of CDT, in a press conference today.
"Expect it to have a devastating effect on social media content and expression. " Internet giants awake. Informatica's Integration Cloud Bridges SAP, Salesforce, Others - ReadWriteCloud. The problem with SaaS services being delivered from different clouds is that they may as well be from different worlds. Enterprise resource planning software from SAP catalogs human resources that also happen to be addressed by customer relationship management software from Salesforce.com. But their data was designed to be driven in their respective clouds. It may be becoming a fact of everyday life that any problem created by virtue of a cloud-based service must be resolved by a cloud-based service.
This is where Informatica steps in, offering integration as a service (though thankfully without yet another “-aaS”). Today, the company announced the full availability of its winter 2012 release of Cloud Connection services for Salesforce, SAP, Oracle EBS, and other products, as part of its ongoing evolution of Informatica Cloud. Data integration, by Informatica’s definition, is bi-directional. The company admits the off-premise approach, while simple, cannot apply to all circumstances. How The Web Became Just Another Interface to the Cloud - ReadWriteCloud. The world of healthcare remains one of the most critical domains across professional practices, providing vital services to the general public.
Although many processes within the industry require a level of traditionalism, many experts and providers may find that some operations could benefit from a digital revamp. Among the many burdens healthcare workers face, documentation sits at the top. Cumbersome documentation burdens, including paperwork overload, errors in manual entry, and unpunctual charting procedures, can occasionally delay the much-needed care that patients deserve. Given this ongoing complication spanning the sector, many healthcare specialists are turning to medical document processing solutions that work to improve the tedious tasks plaguing the field. An Inquisitive Look at Medical Document Processing The Potential Benefits of Medical Document Processing Resources for Healthcare Providers In the medical field, compliance is a crucial component in avoiding malpractice.