Tom Raftery, social media consultant, speaker, blogger and podcaster
Justin Mason has put together a list of the top 100 Irish blog sites by Technorati rank and by inbound links. Jason obviously put a huge effort into doing this and serious kudos to him for doing it.
If it weren’t too difficult to do Justin, a monthly report of these numbers would be fascinating to track.
Anyone going to Le Web 3 have any hotel recommendations?
Last year there was a wiki where people could leave their suggestions but I don’t see that anywhere on the Le Web 3 site this year and emailing the organisers has elicited no response, as yet!
Netcraft have posted their November 2006 Web Server Survey and there are a couple of interesting findings.
The main one is that the number of websites has exceeded 100m for the first time ever.
In the November 2006 survey we received responses from 101,435,253 sites, up from 97.9 million sites last month.
Of those 100m sites 27.4m were added this year alone! In fact, according to Netcraft, the Internet has doubled in size since May 2004, when it reached 50m sites.
Netcraft credits blogs with helping this growth:
Blogs and small business web sites have driven the explosive growth this year, with huge increases at free blogging services at Google and Microsoft.
I’m looking for suggestions for a good venue for the blogger’s dinner in Brussels on the 17th of November - anyone with good ideas, please leave them in the comments, thanks.
Loic has announced the opening of the registration for Les Blogs 3. It is on in Paris on Dec 11th and 12th, and costs €300 (excl VAT) if you register before November 11th.
The event has been renamed Le Web 3 to better reflect the broader focus on Live Web applications and not just Blogs this year.
Le Web 3 has its own website and you can register to attend online.
Having attended last years Les Blogs 2, I can strongly recommend attending Le Web 3.
TechCrunch UK, although running for a couple of months now, had its official launch last night. I was fortunate enough to get an invite, and I decided to fly over for the event primarily because Mike Arrington was going to be there and I wanted to finally meet him (we’ve had several conversations over email and phone/skype but we’ve never met in person). Mike didn’t show.
My annoyance at the no-show was tempered by the fact that I got to catch up with Hugh MacLeod, Fergus Burns and Robin Blandford. And I got to meet lots of interesting people like Jeremy Baines, Ryan Carson, Ivan Pope and Simon Grice from Etribes. And I got to be on the Gillmor Gang podcast.
Also, the (finger) food was plentiful and there was no shortage of drink (despite the three Irish guys best attempts!).
I took plenty of pics which I’ll post when I get back to my USB cable (note to self, pack USB cable in future).
So thanks to Sam for the invite, even if it was under false pretences, and congrats on landing Mike Butcher as your editor, I know he’ll bring a lot to the site.
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