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500 Million Internet Users in Asia-Pacific
FEBRUARY 12, 2008
According to recent estimates there were 6.6 billion people in the world in 2007. Of that number, 1.15 billion, or 17.5%, were regular Internet users. By 2012, eMarketer projects that over 1.7 billion people worldwide (24.5%) will access the Internet at least once per month.
This year will see China overtake the United States as the most populous Internet nation in the world and the Asia-Pacific region will top 500 million Internet users.
By 2012, nearly 50% of the world’s Internet population will live in the Asia-Pacific region. The share of the world’s Internet users in Europe and North America will fall, though absolute numbers will continue to rise in both regions, as the share of users in Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region both grow.
The Netherlands and the Scandinavian countries lead the world in terms of Internet penetration, and reached something of a saturation point around 80% of the population in 2007.

The Insider: Corbis builds a virtual art gallery in Second Life
WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY? Seattle stock image provider Corbis has opened a gallery in Second Life, an increasingly popular online virtual world.
People interested in art and photography can view and discuss the imagery, said Stephen Gillett, Corbis' vice president of technology, who led the gallery's design. Gillett's avatar (online character) is named Corbis Kamachi.

Social Flowers lets you send fresh flowers to members of your social network - our flowers are delivered by local florists in the United States and Canada.
Social Flowers uses a unique, safe, and secure process that keeps the personal information of the sender and the recipient private. The sender of the flowers does not need to know the recipient's address and they will never have access to it. The recipient will not have access to the sender's address or payment information. The social network itself does not need to have the recipient's address. Please see How It Works for a detailed description of the process.
Social Flowers is pioneering the sending of fresh flowers in social networks. Our process is safe and secure and it deepens the human connections between members of social networks. In life, people send each other flowers - we believe that social networks also need to allow their members to safely and securely send each other flowers.

Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users. You won’t find editors at Digg — we’re here to provide a place where people can collectively determine the value of content and we’re changing the way people consume information online.

Facebook banned by City firms
Networking website Facebook is supposed to improve your social life. But it emerged that "Facebooking" can also seriously damage your career.
London has more Facebook users than any other city
More than two thirds of employers are banning or restricting the use of Facebook and similar sites over fears that staff are wasting time on them when they should be working, a survey found. Several companies have also warned employees that accessing the site during office hours is a sackable offence.
More than 70 per cent of businesses, including banks and law firms, have barred the sites.

The SocioSite Project The SocioSite is a project based at the faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. We present the resources and information that are important for the international sociological scene. It links students of sociology to many interesting, sociologically relevant locations in cyberspace. The SocioSite is a comprehensive information system which is very easy to use. That is why it has become a very popular yellow guide for social scientists from all over the world. The SocioSite is a toolkit for us social scientists. It contains high quality resources and texts that can be used as wheels for the sociological mind.
The Internet is rapidly transforming the production, distribution, and consumption of knowledge and information. Information is made available in electronic formats and through differing network applications. The information is expanding at a very fast growing rate. Much of the latest sociological research finds its way onto the Internet long before it reaches print or other traditional media. Coming to terms with the Internet and its resources is a most pressing and necessary task for all social scientists.