New Trends in Online Traffic Growth: Local Information, Social Networks, Blogs

[Kristijntje]

While growth is slowing at most top Internet sites, it is skyrocketing at sites focused on social networking, blogging and local information...

The traffic analysis shows the Internet is still a space where new brands such as MySpace can suddenly break into the upper ranks, where older brands such as Citysearch can revive themselves after languishing for years, and where established outfits such as Google often wind up as beneficiaries because they buy or copy services pioneered by upstarts...

"The growth in blogging reminds us the Internet is fulfilling its original promise about participation,"...

full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...01692.html