03 April 2009

People online in Poland

The 15 most popular sites on the list have remained since December but in general all sites have experienced losses. In general Google and the portal Onet.pl loose visitors in favour of the popular Nasza-Klasa ”Our Class”, is the most popular social website similar to Facebook where you can find old friends from school. The most used instant messenger tool on the polish market is Gadu-Gadu with 2 900 000 user. Comparing to MSN Messenger where you find on the 17th place.

Communities like MySpace and Facebook is listed on 13th and 17th place on a ranking list where both internet portals and social networking sites were listed. Golden Line (16) with 700 000 users is most used for professional network compared to the international network LinkedIn (not on the list).

Polish actors is more popular than international in general. During last year MySpace tried to raise popularity on the Polish market but didn´t succeed (Ranking list by month, december -08).

Search

Google is number one, then without ranking comes Onet, Wirtualna Polska - Virtual Poland which is one of the largests portals for news/information, Gazeta, owned by the news publisher Agora (Gazeta Wyborcza is a daily newspaper), Whitelines.net guides you to the popular search engines for most countries and offers links to promote your website URL.

01 April 2009

Drag & Drop to Viewzi

Firefox "Drag & Drop zones" is absolutely necessary for me at the moment. This function really helps me to ”google” something fast. I have the function installed on Firefox in my MacBook but not on my PC and I´m starting to miss that. This is a way to gather your favourite search engines at the same place.

You install the plug-in and the design it the way you like. It looks like a transparent grid and is displayed over the site you where viewing, just drag the text up in the corner and the grid is appearing, and drop the text on any of the zones/search engine.
Article about Drag & Drop zones
Firefox plug-in

”Transform your site from blah to bling”
with Viewzi

Viewzi is one of my favourite search engine at the moment, which I included to Drag & Drop. I like Viewzi because you can easily change your result into different moods. Web screen shot, simple text, photos, Google timeline and power grid to mention a few. Power grid include the function to flip between text and screenshots.



The google timeline (below) display your result in a timeline, you scan the relevance fast depending on the date.

The combination of the mood Fashion and Tag cloud (below) is fun. You create your own tagcloud by clicking anywhere in the background and start type your subject within Fashion