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TalkTalk Members Site Analytics

We monitor and analyse our Web site and forums stats, visitor and traffic profiles, and links and search usage. Some of you may be interested to see this information too. Our Web Site Analytics Summary (pdf 109KB) is available for download for anyone who's interested. If this file proves popular (we'll monitor this ;-) then we'll make sure it's updated regularly.

Any questions, comments, general observations can be posted on the Web Site Analytics thread on the Ideas for the Web site forum.

The rise of the Silver Surfer

Today is the ninth annual Silver Surfers’ Day – a national day dedicated to promoting the use of digital technologies by older people – which promises to be bigger and more inclusive this year than ever.

 

Why social games are changing the way we play

Has someone you know recently become obsessed with melon farming? Or spoken ominously of ‘whacking’ a friend? If so, they’re probably a fan of Farmville or Mafia Wars, two of the most popular social games on Facebook. Perfect for whiling away a few minutes of your lunch break, or a fallow period in the TV schedules, these simple online titles attract the video game industry’s most prized quarry: the casual gamer. As well as the aforementioned examples, games like Bejeweled Blitz, Vampire Wars and Texas HoldEm Poker have spread throughout social networks like an aggressive virus, turning people into farming fanatics and card sharps almost overnight. And once they’re hooked they want their friends to join them.

Wifi Utilisation Report

The snappily titled Estimating the Utilisation of Key Licence-Exempt Spectrum Bands (~1.5MB pdf) has just been published as a commission by Ofcom produced by Mass Consultants. The aim was to evaluate the efficiency of the use of wireless communications. They conclude that there is an incredible density of traffic in the unlicensed frequencies which Wifi operates... and the main source may surprise you!

Graph shows proportions of frame types in a few selected locations. Beacon frames are polls from routers and access points telling the world they are there and inviting someone to connect.

The TalkTalk Blog

Head over to www.talktalkblog.co.uk/ where you'll find regular entries from our directors and members of the TalkTalk team.