Tag Archive for statistics

Google Chrome in the 3 most used browsers: how long will it take?


Browser Statistics Month by Month


2008 IE7 IE6 IE5 Fx Moz S O
August 26.0% 24.5% 0.1% 43.7% 0.5% 2.6% 2.1%
July 26.4% 25.3% 0.3% 42.6% 0.5% 2.5% 1.9%
June 27.0% 26.5% 0.5% 41.0% 0.5% 2.6% 1.7%
May 26.5% 27.3% 0.7% 39.8% 0.7% 2.4% 1.5%
April 24.9% 28.9% 1.0% 39.1% 0.9% 2.2% 1.4%
March 23.3% 29.5% 1.1% 37.0% 1.1% 2.1% 1.4%
February 22.7% 30.7% 1.3% 36.5% 1.2% 2.0% 1.4%
January 21.2% 32.0% 1.5% 36.4% 1.3% 1.9% 1.4%

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IE Internet Explorer
Fx Firefox (identified as Mozilla before 2005)
Moz The Mozilla Suite (Gecko, Netscape)
S Safari (and Konqueror. Both identified as Mozilla before 2007)
O Opera
N Netscape (identified as Mozilla after 2006)
AOL America Online (based on both Internet Explorer and Mozilla)

Source: W3school (accessed on the 6th of Sept 2008)

And now is time to include Google Chrome as well! I am pretty sure Google Chrome is going to be the first of the class very soon! It is just great: very wide screen, clear, easy to use and very fast! The only negative point (and people are complaining  about it) is the google toolbar! Unfortunately Google Chrome was released without Google Toolbar.

I guess GG (Google Guys) are doing a great job around the google toolbar for Google Chrome. I think of something like… fading effect (same effect than the property hover), with a non invasive Google Toolbar that appears and disappears when the mouse ‘hover the Google Toolbar button, and a fading drop down menu (including page rank, translator button, autofill and so on) will gently appear.

This will be also a good additional point to immediately gain points over the competitors.

How long will Google Chrome need to be in the 3 most used browsers?

Ciao,

Marco ;)

Billboards That Look Back – “article in 10 words”


by Marco De Cesaris

I am going to try a new way to summarize information.

I just read an article very interesting about (once again) surveillance society and advertising. But this time is about billboards.

Few months ago I realized a project for the module “internet technologies” and this project is a website called “content analyzer“. It is a basic/easy/simple way to analyze text. Mainly it retrieves the statistics of a document (e.g. how may words in the document, frequency of each single word, sorting by Alpha or Frequency). You can try it by yourself clicking on the link above.

Here the analysis of the original article (that you can find on nytimes.com)

“Billboards That Look Back”

Unique words:595
Total words:1443

Freq. Word

12 CAMERAS
10 BILLBOARDS
9 PEOPLE
8 ADVERTISING
8 DIGITAL
8 BILLBOARD
8 QUIVIDI
7 CAMERA
6 COMPANIES
5 TECHNOLOGY

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21 IS
18 IT
18 THEY
15 ARE
13 SAID
8 BE
7 SAY
7 I
7 HAS
7 YOU
6 WE
6 HE
6 COULD

I decided to take the first 10 nouns and all the verbs and subjects from the top list down to the last noun i chose (in this case “technology”).

You can choose as many words as you like, but to keep it as a summarization, i decided to stop at the first 10 nouns.

This analysis is really a basic one, and it can be modified/improved in many different ways.

Below is the complete statistical result:

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