Bytes · Youth write blogs - Sexcameron - London goes wifi

• New research, My Digital Life, from AOP has 73 per cent of 18-24 year olds writing blogs or posting comments online on a weekly basis.
  
  
• E-government@Large covers Phishing and comes to some scary conclusions about anti-virus software. "Even Domestos has had to abandon its 50 year old slogan 'kills all known germs dead' to say that it kills only '99 per cent of known germs'".
  
  
• Swiftcover.com has become one of the first brands to let users get instant insurance quotes by entering details within the ad copy.
  
  
• Firefox is battling IE7 through adding social features such as the Coop which lets users share favourite Web site links with friends.
  
  
  
  More at Mozilla Labs
  
  · The Coop, sorted by friends
  · The Coop, sorted by friends (alternate)
  · The Coop, showing a preview of a friend's shared content
  · The Coop, sorted by content type
  
  
  
• Sexcameron takes choice clips of Dave on the stump and on his website and re-edits them to make it look as he's dancing to Justin Timberlake's SexyBack. Still waiting for someone to sex-up Ming ...
  
  
  
  
• Guardian intervews Mark Anders, senior principal scientist at Adobe Systems.
  
  Why is Flash taking off again? "It's a combination of broadband and in the number of people being comfortable with it."
  
  How has it changed? "Flash didn't really have a developer focus. It always had a creative focus. But I joined to help develop the messaging and tools."
  
  
• Blogging is now ten years old and there are now 70m of them around the globe.
  
  
• Heather Hopkins has looked at site visits against likelihood to vote and found:
  
  · MySpace visitors least likely and
  · Facebook visitors most likely.
  
  In what must be a first, Guido Fawkes picked up on her comments on MySpace (but he saw it as somewhere for pollies to avoid - they don't vote).
  
  
• The City of London has become Europe's biggest wireless internet hotspot.
  
  The network will span the entire Square Mile, and uses a new "mesh" technology to transfer users automatically from base station to base station as they walk by, allowing uninterrupted web use. Users will be charged about £11 a month.
  
  
  
• Unlike the UK, anyone is now free to download maps and satellite photos of Canada from its Geogratis portal and create a business around them.
  
  
• Ask.com, Google, Microsoft Live Search and Yahoo! are now supporting 'autodiscovery' of Sitemaps.
  
  The new open-format autodiscovery allows webmasters to specify the location of their Sitemaps within their robots.txt file, eliminating the need to submit sitemaps to each search engine separately. More at sitemaps.org.
  
  
• Google Blogoscoped looks at coverage of criticism of the Beijing Olympics on Google.cn and asks
  

  "Is it good SEO in China to not speak critical of my government – are there any Google webmaster guidelines as to what may get you removed?"