Internet Ends 2009 with 1,802 Million

The numbers prove what we said one year ago. The economic crisis had no effect on Internet growth. On the contrary, we see growth in all parts of the world during year 2009.
               The following table resumes the estimated population for each geographic region, the number of Internet users, and the penetration rate (this term means the percentage of the population that uses the Internet) in each region.

Internet World Statistics Report Internet Users by World Regions - December 31, 2009
Region	Population	Internet Users	P. R.	% Users
Asia	3,808,070,503	764,435,900	20.1 %	42.4 %
Europe	803,850,858	425,773,571	53.0 %	23.6 %
North America	340,831,831	259,561,000	76.2 %	14.4 %
Latam / Caribbean	586,662,468	186,922,050	31.9 %	10.4 %
Africa	991,002,342	86,217,900	8.7 %	4.8 %
Middle East	202,687,005	58,309,546	28.8 %	3.2 %
Oceania, Australia	34,700,201	21,110,490	60.8 %	1.2 %
Total World	6,767,805,208	1,802,330,108	26.6 %	100.0 %
Source: Internet World Stats, estimates for December 31, 2009. Notes: a) Population data comes from the US Census Bureau; b) Internet estimates come from ITU, Nielsen Online, GfK, official telecommunications regulating agencies and other trustworthy sources; c) Mexico is included in Central America and Turkey is included in Europe, according to the United Nations grouping; d) P.R. means the Penetration Rate, in percentage. Copyright Š 2010, Miniwatts Marketing Group.

           This represents a26.6% penetration rate. Updating for all the IWS website is underway, it will be ready in the coming days. Newsletter subscribers will receive a note when each geographic area is updated and completed..

   From this table, the year 2009 end swith 1,802,330,108 Internetusers. 

New International Domain Names

          From now on, the IDN (Internationalized Domain Names) will have a new place in the Internet. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the organization that is in charge of all Internet domains, has approved the first four country-code domain names written in non-Latin script.

This new approach will allow Internet users in Egypt, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to use their own languages in the web. Other countries will follow in the future. Countries that await approval for IDN are China, Jordan, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

Blog Vs Website Vs Portal

Website, Blog and Portal are very closely related terms on the internet. So,one must know the difference between among Website, Blog and Portal. This article tries to find out some of the differences:
Website vs Blog:
1. A Website is Static while a Blog is Dynamic

A Blog is regularly updated. Blog gives you current news, latest technologies info, latest gadgets info and updated tutorials. But on the other hand side, Webiste’s content is old and obsolete as its not regularly updated except some of the greatest official sites.

2. A Blog is more user interactive than a Website
    A Blog provides more user interaction than a Website because:

A) The most exciting feature of Blogs is Comment Section. It lets the visitors to leave the comment and discuss what they liked or disliked. It initiates a debate. Website may have this feature but  it is of little use. Website says “Here is the content, if you like it, then read it, or leave it”. But blog is not so rude.

B) Blogs have RSS Feed Mechanism which is a solid way for the people to subscribe to the content of a Blog in a specifically designed RSS aggregator, rather than forcing them to revisit the site with any sort of frequency.

3. Blog is easily and quickly constructed
    There is no need to be an expert web developer to start a Blog because:
A) There are websites like wordpress.com and blogger.com which provide inbuilt mechanism to build your own blog. It eliminates the need for coding knowledge. All your concentration go into the content but in a Website a huge time is spent worrying about the coding. Because you don’t need to know coding to run a       Blog, your entire focus can be on the content. You can start your own Blog within 5 minutes using these services.
B) There is no worry of database completion in blogs as it will be filled regularly when you post but database should be complete in case of website before uploading it to the server.

4. A Blog is cheaply constructed as i named wordpress and blogger, you have to spend no money to create your blog on these sites. You don’t have to purchase any domain name and any hosting service. But in the case of Website you have to purchase a domain name as well as hosting service.

5. Blogs are more Search Engine Friendly than Websites

    Blogs can be easily setup to ping Blog Directories and search engines when you add a new post or update your Blog. This is one of the best features of a blog. This means your posts will appear in Search Engines very quickly as compared to websites.

Summary:
        A website is a more like a reference book while a blog is more of a daily newspaper.
Website vs Portal:
               A Website contains only one type of related content and focuses on the content and therefore targets just one kind of people.

               On the other hand, a portal provides content from diverse distributed resources and provides many features like news, stock prices, research, entertainment, learning, shopping, discovery and other information. So it targets all kind of visitors.

Example: YAHOO!, iGOOGLE, MSN, AOL etc.

Internet Deep Web Search Engine

              Since most personal profiles, public records and other people-related documents are stored in databases and not on static web pages, much of the higher-quality information about people and companies is simply "invisible" to a regular search engine. The deep web content is estimated at 500 times that of the surface web, yet it has remained mostly untapped due to the limitations of traditional search engines. Here is a way to search for people and companies using the deep web search engine called PIPL. Give it a try, search for yourself, or for your company. You will be surprised with the quality of the replies you get from PIPL.

Open Source Initiatives of NIC Kerala

Various Open Source Initiatives have been taken by NIC kerala for effective use of open source for online applications. These solutions have been implemented in various application areas such as:

•  E-collectorate
• Online Counselling for engineering/medical/legal/MCA
• Lok Ayukta
• Treasury
• Dairy development board
• PIB news
• KV schools

 Secretariate Knowledge Management system Solutions to be showcased have been developed using LAMP and JAVA technologies.
LINUX operating system is operational in the state and the districts of Kerala as..

• Mail Server
• Web server
• Intranet Server
• Proxy Server
• Application Server
• Database Server