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Mark Hendrickson over at TechCrunch has a great post with the 2007 edition of the TechCrunch deadpool outlining a number of startups that failed to make it in 2007. Some noticeable mentions on the list include:
Yang Decides to Shut Down Yahoo 360—Nobody Notices
NetBank Joins The Deadpool
Goodbye Froogle
Yahoo Mixd Says “Peace Out” and Goes to DeadPool
Big Layoffs At Insider Pages
It's a pretty interesting list. In addition to their "deadpool" list there is also the year in deals which features stories on items such as:
Tesla Asks Investors For Another $40 Million To Start Its Engines.
Another great list with some forgotten stories of online happenings that took place in 2007.
TechCrunch also posted their top posts for the year 2007. Here is a sample of some of them:
Being Stupid And Litigious Is No Way To Go Through Life
Yahoo Invites Us Into Mash, Its New Social Network
Digg Should Sue Wired
Google vs Michael Moore
2007: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without
There is some pretty good stuff here. If you missed it the first time, you may want to check it out now. Just a reminder that we had our own little top posts of the year for 2007 that you may want to check out.
I have always been a big fan of Scandinavia particularly of Sweden and Finland. Living in Canada, the closest I came to visiting these countries was during the annual World Junior Hockey Championships over the Christmas break when these countries hosted the event and I would watch the games on TV. The cities look beautiful, the people seem energetic and happy. I would like to visit Scandinavia some time in the future as I have never been out of North America.
So as I was looking up some Internet usage stats the other day, I came across some data from comScore that indicated the most popular search engines in European countries including Finland and Sweden. Think Google is the most popular search engine in Scandinavia? Well think again. To my surprise Microsoft (MSN and Live Search) appears to be the search engine of choice in Norway and Sweden. Google is the top search engine in Denmark and Finland however. Some other interesting points,
The Netherlands and Scandinavian countries have the highest percentage of their populations using the Internet, ranging from 68 percent to 83 percent.
European users average 16.5 usage days per month. Countries that have usage days below the European average are Russia (11.4 average usage days), Austria (12.0), Italy (12.9), Ireland (13.0), Portugal (13.4), Norway (14.7), Denmark (14.7), Switzerland (15.1), Belgium (15.5) and Finland (16.4).
The average Swedish user views 4,019 pages per month and views more pages than any other country – 51 percent above the European average of 2,662 pages per month.
Pan-European and US Breakdown of Online Audiences, age 15+*
In case you missed it. ComScore released their latest search engine marker share numbers for November 2007. Pretty much status quo from recent months with Google leading the pack with a near 59% market share in the US. Facebook
comScore Core Search Report*
November 2007
Core Search Entity
Share of Searches (%)
Oct-07
Nov-07
Point Change Novt-07 vs. Oct-07
Total Core Search
100.0%
100.0%
0.0
Google Sites
58.4%
58.6%
0.2
Yahoo! Sites
22.8%
22.4%
-0.4
Microsoft Sites
9.8%
9.8%
0.0
Ask Network
4.7%
4.6%
-0.1
Time Warner Network
4.2%
4.5%
0.3
Looking at the Expanded Search Rankings, Google properties led with 7.3 billion searches a 1.9% decrease over the previous month. An interesting note is that Facebook had a drop of nearly 22% in November when compared to October data. As a result of search activity likely related to holiday shopping, eBay and Amazon Sites both experienced an increase for the month with 489 million and 178 million queries, respectively.
November U.S. Expanded Search Rankings
comScore Expanded Search Query Report
November 2007
Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations
Source: comScore qSearch 2.0
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