Thursday, January 31, 2008

January 2008 Web Survey - Slower Growth!!!

Dear all,

According to the January 2008 survey there 155,583,825 (155 million)sites, reflecting a much slower growth of only 354 thousand sites, compared with last month, where the increase was 5.4 million.

For more information visit: http://news.netcraft.com/

Tharanga.

Presentation on Wikis & Blogs

Dear all,

The following URL will lead you for a valuable .ppt presentation on above made by Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian, Iowa State University Library, USA.

URL: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/TICER2005.ppt

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

New issue of Information Research

The new issue of Information Research is released: http://InformationR.net/ir/12-4/infres124.html .

Tharanga .

October 2007 Web Survey

Dear Friends,

October 2007 survey received responses from 142,805,398 (142 million) sites, an increase of 7.6 million tes since last month. This continues the strong gains seen last month, a rate of over 5% monthly growth.

For more information, visit: http://news.netcraft.com/

Tharanga.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

August 2007 Web Survey

According to August 2007 survey there are 127,961,479 (127 million) websites, an increase of 2.3 million sites from last month.

For more information, visit: http://news.netcraft.com/

Tharanga.

Saturday, March 17, 2007

March 2007 Web Server Survey

The March 2007 survey received responses from 110,460,149 (110 million) sites, an increase of 1.64 million from last month. The Web crosses the 110 million mark just five months after reaching 100 million web sites in the November 2006 survey, continuing the strong growth trend seen in the last two years.

For more information, visit: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html

Tharanga.

Friday, February 09, 2007

Presentation on E-LIS

I made a presentation on "E-LIS: an international open access archive for library professionals" at the SLSTINET Librarians' Meeting held at the National Science Foundation, Colombo on 8th February 2007.

To view the presentation click:http://tharangaonline.pbwiki.com/f/E-LIS%20Sri%20Lanka.pdf; http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00008697/

Tharanga.

Friday, January 19, 2007

New issue of Information Research

Dear all,

you'll find the new issue (Volume 12 No 2 January, 2007) of "Information Research" up at http://InformationR.net/ir/12-2/infres122.html.

Tharanga.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

January 2007 Web Server Survey


January 2007 survey received responses from 106,875,138 sites, an increase of 1.63 million from last month's (December 2006) survey. Leading the growth is Microsoft, which adds more than 650K hostnames on its Windows Live Spaces blog service, while Go Daddy (+165K) and Google (+105K) also had growth of more than 100,000 sites this month.

For more information: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html

Tharanga.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

December 2006 Web Server Survey

The December 2006 survey received responses from 105,244,649 sites, an increase of 3.8 million hostnames from last month, when the survey topped 100 million sites for the first time. The increase brings the Web's total growth for 2006 to 30.9 million sites, shattering the previous one-year record gain of 17.5 million sites from 2005.

For more information: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html