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YouTube is number 5 in Denmark

The Danish Union of Internet Media (FDIM) has recently conducted a quite thorough survey on the Danes online behaviour in January 2008.

Number 1 is Google (surprise surprise!) with 15 millions visits(!) in January. But what's interesting, for me anyway, is that YouTube is at number 5! YouTube had b little over 1.1 million Danish visits in January, which is more that any of the online newspapers here in Denmark.

The only ones to beat YouTube (apart from Google, of course) are:

Krak (a service which lets you look up addresses and phone numbers and view the results on a map (think white and yellow pages))
DR.dk (the Danish Broadcoast Association, which gets a lot of visits, apart from the news service, from people viewing the online TV-guides, listening to internet radio, downloading podcasts and reading more about the various shows)
TV2 (the largest private television channel in Denmark, which (just like DR) gets a lot of visits from people viewing other things than news and watching online television (their main product) - TV2 also offers online games)

So considering all of this, I think it's a fairly good result for YouTube. I for one use YouTube all of the time, sometimes just for listening to music. I had no idea that the service is that popular in this country, though.

My good friend Kim has the entire list [in Danish] (taken from Danish media news site MediaWatch) [also in Danish]. You can download the entire report from FDIM [it's a PDF file and yes, it's also in Danish].

Play old school Nintendo games in your browser

Today I came across VirtualNES.com where you can play various old school Nintendo games.

I came across Super Mario Brothes from 1985, what a rush! :-)

Have fun!

PS: The games are Java based.

Found via Danish newspaper Politiken.

WordPress 2.4 is cancelled, is now 2.5

The lead translater of the Danish version of open source blogging software WordPress, René, writes on the official WordPress DK blog, that WordPress 2.4 has been cancelled.

The reason is that there are too many corrections to be made, and therefore WP 2.4 could not be ready until March. The next WordPress release will be 2.5, which is set to be out on March 24th.

A Google blog search shows that WPAssist also has a post on this.

Denmark is an "extensive surveillance society"

My friend Jeppe just showed me a report on "Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World 2007", where Denmark, where I live, is listed under "extensive surveillance societies".

Read the report and judge for yourself. Quite a scary bit of reading, if you ask me…

WordPress 2.3.2 is out

In case you haven't noticed: WordPress 2.3.2 is out.

So far, no new features (except that you can specify your own error page to display, when you're having database problems), but some security and bug fixes instead. Read more at the above link.

You can download WordPress at wordpress.org/download.

PS: WordPress [Wikipedia] is a state of the art piece of open source blogging software, and WordPress is also the platform driving this blog and many others.

Danish WordPress
I've also been told that a Danish translation of the new WordPress version is on its way. Once it's ready you can get it from wordpress.dk/download.

Can't add new feed in Jaiku — servers taking a pounding?

I'm trying to add the feed from onlineminds.dk (which I co-run with Kim Elmose) to my Jaiku account, but I get a "Page not found" error:

Whoa! Who turned up the heat? Servers are running a bit hot right now, please try again in a couple minutes.

Could this be because of the Jaiku hype after Google bought it? I hope not :-)

Update 1 @ 22:25
Great — it's working now! No questions asked… ;-)

Google announces Jaiku acquisition - cut and paste?

Google itself has now officially announced that it has bought Jaiku.

Interesting thing though.. when you look at the blog entry in the blog and in the feed, you'll see a difference:

From the blog:

[...] We plan to use the ideas and technology behind Jaiku to make compelling and useful products. [...]

From the feed:

[...] We plan to use the ideas and technology behind Socialite to make compelling and useful products. [...]

A minor detail, I know ;-)

Google buys Jaiku

Apparently Google has bought microblogging service Jaiku, the Jaiku team writes:

Exciting news: Google has bought Jaiku today.

What does that mean? First and foremost, we’re of course continuing to support our existing users. So fear not: your Jaiku phone, the Web site, IM, SMS, and API will continue to work normally.

The acquisition means that Jaiku has closed for new user signups for the moment — although existing users can invite their friends.

This is great news for Jaiku users and could be Jaikus big break — as far as I've head, Twitter is by far the most popular microblogging service in the US — although Twitter really can't be labeled as 'blogging' since others can't comment on the microposts — Jaiku supports this.

Jaiku is a service that gives you 115 characters per micropost. You can either post from the Jaiku website, your instant messaging client (for instance Google Talk or from your cellphone. More about Jaiku.

Netscape 9 RC1 ready for download

Just a quick one: The Netscape 9 release candidate 1 is now available for download at browser.netscape.com.

Introducing Google History

On my daily surf I suddenly came across a "search your browsing history" link at Google.

That link took me to google.com/history. Since this is the first time I'm hearing of this, I can only tell you what is written on that page:

View and manage your web activity.
You know that great web site you saw online and now can't find? From now on, you can. With Web History, you can view and search across the full text of the pages you've visited, including Google searches, web pages, images, videos and news stories. You can also manage your web activity and remove items from your web history at any time.

Get the search results most relevant to you.
Web History helps deliver more personalized search results based on what you've searched for on Google and which sites you've visited. You might not notice a big impact on your search results early on, but they should steadily improve over time as you use Web History.

Follow interesting trends in your web activity.
Which sites do you visit frequently? How many searches did you do between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.? Web History can tell you about these and other interesting trends on your web activity.

I'm gonna take it for a test toast now and see what it is :-)

Update 1
Okay, a quick stare at the Google History site reveals, that Google History as actually active if you have a Google Account. You don't need to activate anything, if you log on to Google History now using your Google Account, you'll see what sites you've visited and what you've searched for while you were logged in.

One question remains: Is that a good or a bad thing? I for one would perhaps prefer, that you'd need to active your Google History.

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