Got any idea how many new Web sites were launched in 2009? Me neither.
Royal Pingdom, however, figures 47 million Web sites were added to the Internet in 2009, bringing the total number of Web sites on the Internet to 234 million. The company culled stats from Web hosting sites, domain name registrars, market research companies and several other data sources and created a 2009 snapshot of the Internet.
Among its findings for 2009:
- 90 trillion: Number of emails sent
- 81.8 million: Number of .com domain names
- 1.73 billion: Internet users worldwide (Sept. 2009)
- 2.6 million: Number of viruses, Trojans and other sorts of malicious software
- 126 million: Number of blogs
Royal Pingdom is in the business of providing enterprise Web uptime monitoring services.
eBay says iPhone/iPod touch shoppers went crazy over the holiday season . The number of items bought via eBay’s free mobile app this 
year was triple last year’s holiday volume. In 2009, eBay buyers and sellers are generating more than half a billion dollars of mobile transactions. Nearly 6 million people have eBay’s app on their “iDevice” and shoppers are making 750,000 unique visits a day to eBay. Mobile purchases this season range from designer handbags to a $75,000 1966 Chevrolet Corvette, the company says.
In 2009, an item sold every 2 seconds via eBay mobile app worldwide with luxury items a favorite of shoppers this holiday season. Recent mobile transactions in the US include:
- $19,108 for a 23-foot deck boat
- $10,025 for 250 grams of pure gold
- $10,000 for a Boston grand piano made by Steinway
- $3,888 for a Hermes Kelly bag
- $770 for a Jean Paul Gaultier wool and leather coat
- $600 for a pair of Christian Louboutin, camel-colored patent leather pumps
Yahoo! says it will get more cozy with Facebook by integrating the two in a way that helps users stay in and touch and grab more meaningful content when they want it.
The big idea is to further the Yahoo! Open Strategy initiative and to “make the two experiences more open, social and personally relevant for the more than 500 million people that visit Yahoo! each month,” says Jim Stoneham, vice president of Communities for Yahoo!
The partnership will give consumers richer experiences on Yahoo!, including in Yahoo! Mail and on properties like Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Sports, and Yahoo! Finance. It will enable them to connect with Facebook friends on Yahoo!, view a feed of their friends’ related activity on Yahoo!, and share content–such as photos from Flickr or comments on news stories–with all of their friends on Facebook. The content that consumers share with Facebook friends will then create a loop that drives visitors back to Yahoo!.
