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28-04-2012 00:33 Let's talk about gossip on the internet and why it sucks balls.

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The Internet contributes to nine percent of Vietnams gross domestic product (GDP), and 1.6 percent to its GDP growth of 14.4 percent, according to recent global survey.

The contribution is driven by private consumption of Internet-related goods such as broadband and mobile Internet spending, the ICTNews news website said Wednesday, citing a survey done by the US-based McKinsey & Company, Inc.

Theprivate consumption accounts for some 2 percent of Vietnams GDP but it is offset by the countrys large trade deficit in Internet-related goods and services, according to the survey report,Online and upcoming: The Internet's impact on aspiring countries. Results of the survey were announced at a seminar in Hanoi Wednesday.

It pointed out that the GDP contribution of the Internet in Vietnam is still lower than the two percent average for the nine aspiring countries that the company studied in detail.

However, Shaowei Ying, associate principal in McKinseys Singapore office, told the seminar, organized by the Vietnam Club of Information Technology Journalists, that the contribution will soon catch up with the average rate and be probably able to reach 2.5 percent in the future.

On the other hand, McKinseys survey found that e-commerce in Vietnam is still an untapped market with high potential for growth.

It said more than one-third of Internet users have visited an online shopping or auction site. Meanwhile, in another survey, 50 percent of Internet users said they believed that shopping online provides access to a wider variety of products, it added.

But concerns about payment security constrain e-commerce growth potential in Vietnam, according to the survey, saying that just 13 percent of Vietnamese Internet users believe that buying products online is safe.

Moreover, Vietnams foundations for e-commerce activity are low in comparison with more developed countries and regional averages, due to low online payment enablement, McKinsey said in the survey.

According to the survey, Internet users in Vietnam now account for 31 percent of the population which is low compared to neighboring aspiring countries like Malaysia, where the rate is 55 percent, and Taiwan with 72 percent.

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Subscriber figures and other data from selected Internet service providers:

April 19: Verizon Communications Inc. added 193,000 FiOS Internet customers in the first three months of the year to end the quarter with 5 million. The company says it will stop selling DSL Internet service in areas where FiOS is available. DSL is slightly cheaper than FiOS Internet service, but much slower.

Tuesday: AT&T Inc. says it added 718,000 subscribers to its U-verse high-speed Internet service in the first quarter to reach 5.9 million. The company says those gains more than offset losses from DSL. AT&T added a net 103,000 landline broadband customers after factoring in the DSL losses.

Thursday: Time Warner Cable Inc. says it added 792,000 high-speed data subscribers to end with 11.1 million. Most of the gains came from the acquisition of Insight Communications, a cable TV company with customers in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio.

Coming up:

Wednesday: Comcast Corp.

Thursday: Cablevision Systems Corp.

May 7: Frontier Communications Corp.

May 8: Charter Communications Inc.

May 9: CenturyLink Inc.. AOL Inc.

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Subscriber data from Internet service providers

Amy Sly, courtesy of BuzzFeed

By Jack Shepherd

BuzzFeed FWD

The joke that you tell about how the Internet is a waste of time if you are the kind of person who makes jokes about how the Internet is a waste of time is always something like, "The only thing the Internet is good for is cat videos and pornography." And I don't think it is being pedantic to point out that this particular line doesn't work if you substitute "dog videos." People would think you are weird. They would be like, "Why are you watching dog videos?" "Dog videos isn't a thing," they would say. But so and I will try to look at some actual statistics as we get more into it but this brings me to my first tentative answer to the "Cats On The Internet" question (which, I should also point out, is aquestionthatpeopleaskalot.)

1. It's the culture Through various lucky accidents, cat stuff started to permeate Internet culture pretty early on, and dogs often found themselves imitating rather than innovating in the field.Cheezburger.com(and yes, sure, 4chan, etc., but let's try to stay focused) certainly has an important role to play in this story, with the introduction to the wider Web of those semi-literate feline sensations the LOLcats, who at this point even your mom has heard of. And whileHappy Cat of whom your mom is also, arguably, at least tangentially aware is still the most popular image on Cheezburger, according to the site's Editor in Chief, Emily Huh, the most popular post on sister (dog-themed) siteI Has A Hot Doghas nowhere near the same traction, either in terms of Facebook shares or in the annals of Internet culture as a whole.

Cheezburger's top 5 all-time cat posts

I Can Haz Cheezburger courtesy of Buzzfeed

See them on Cheezburgerhere,here,here,here, andhere.

Cheezburger's top 5 all-time dog posts

I Can Haz Cheezburger courtesy of BuzzFeed

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Why are cats better than dogs (according to the Internet)?

Google has been adding more and more value to their Webmaster tools which really should help those of you just starting a Website or perhaps just need more help in attracting traffic. Either way, one of the best tools available is the ability to look at the top search query data. Google is making that data even more valuable.

Google announced today that Webmasters can now see up to 90 days of search query historical data. The previous limit was set to only 35 days, so thats a huge jump in data. It should give Webmasters a better idea of how their Website has been doing over the past few months instead of just the last month.

You can go back to the full 90 days by using the same date picker youve always used to see search query data in between particular dates. Heres what a full 90 days of search data looks like:

As always, there is a catch though. You cant view 90 days worth of search data if you want to see changes with the previous time period. Changes are only available with 30 days of search data. Changes are also turned off by default, but you can turn them on with a button between the graph and the table.

There are a few other changes being made to Webmaster Tools. One of them is that users can now view basic search data as soon as site ownership is verified. The other change is that Google now collects the top 2,000 queries that your site gets clicks for. They feel that 98 percent of sites will have full coverage in this regard, but a few Webmasters may see less than 2,000 results.

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