Bookmarks for 19 Mar 2010
- CHART OF THE DAY: Here's How Much A Unique Visitor Is Worth
"The chart below illustrates the value of a unique for several different types of web properties. Not surprisingly, Google's uniques (search) are the most valuable: $18 of revenue per monthly unique per year. Facebook's uniques (social networking), meanwhile, are worth a paltry $3.50. Twitter's uniques are worth almost nothing." (charts business business_models data ) - "Exploring Information Leakage in Third-Party Compute Clouds" [PDF]
"Using the Amazon EC2 service as a case study, we show that it is possible to map the internal cloud infrastructure, identify<br />
where a particular target VM is likely to reside, and then instantiate new VMs until one is placed co-resident with the target. We explore how such placement can then be used to mount cross-VM side-channel attacks to extract information from a target VM on the same machine." (security amazon cloud_computing pdf system:filetype:pdf system:media:document ) - Official Google Blog: This week in search 3/15/10
Google announces support of microdata: "Paritcularly of interest to webmasters, this week we were excited to announce support for microdata for use in rich snippets in addition to our existing support for microformats and RDFa." (google microformats html5 ) - Twitter / Stephen Dunn: This just in: Sausage pwned by giant Seagull in Brighton
Cuica picks up the news from @ShowMeDo (humour google_maps photograph ) - Compare My Radio – You choose the music. We'll find the station.
"Compare My Radio tracks UK radio stations' "now playing" information and makes sense of it so you don't have to." It also includes variety comparison. (radio music comparison search )
