Potential Demand for Web - Internet Services and Websites

What is the potential demand for web or internet services?

The World population is currently above 7 billion.
The internet user base is close to 2 billion (3.1.2012)

Available Resources on Net>

Historical growth of Internet  - Document on Wikipedia - in PB per month and TB per month

Voice versusu Data traffic - 1998 article  Coffman and Odlizko

ICT Regulation report

Systems modeling of new media services - 2011 conference paper with more focus on energy demand for new media services.



Blogs - Amateur - No editing content - One page per day per internet user

Websites - Information services and commercial transaction services - Professional, Commercial and Business Sites - 3 to 5 pages per day.

News sites - 5 pages per day.

Entertainment sites - Music, Films, Drama, etc. 5 pages per day

Education sites - Professional - Depends on the estimate of learners

Email services

Social networking services - Internet highway services

Search service

History of The World Wide Web - Silver Jubilee Year - 1989 - 2014

12 March 1989

Tim Berners-Lee made a proposal on 12 March 1989 for accessing various files in CERN that grew into the World Wide Web. The  connection between computers for transferring data was done about 20 years back and became the Internet.

At that time, Tim was a software engineer at CERN, the large particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. Many scientists participated in experiments at CERN for extended periods of time, then returned to their laboratories around the world. These scientists left a lot data and results on their computers, but accessing them by others was becoming difficult.  Tim proposed a solution to this problem by proposing that from the information in one computer a person can go the information on another computer through a reference. With that idea, subsequently he understood the  potential of millions of computers connected together through the Internet.

Tim's proposal did not elicit instant welcome. But Tim persisted with his idea and by October of 1990, he had specified the three fundamental technologies that remain the foundation of today’s Web.

HTML: HyperText Markup Language. The publishing format for the Web, including the ability to format documents and link to other documents and resources.
URI: Uniform Resource Identifier. A kind of “address” that is unique to each resource on the Web.
HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol. Allows for the retrieval of linked resources from across the Web.

Tim also wrote the first Web page editor/browser (“WorldWideWeb”) and the first Web server (“httpd“). By the end of 1990, the first Web page was served. By 1991, people outside of CERN joined the new Web community. Very important to the growth of the Web, CERN announced in April 1993 that the World Wide Web technology would be available for anyone to use on a royalty-free basis.

Since that time, the Web has changed the world. It has become the most powerful communication medium for publication as well as interaction, the world has ever known. The Web has changed the way we teach and learn, buy and sell, inform and are informed, agree and disagree, share and collaborate, meet and love, and tackle problems ranging from health to elections.

In 1994, Tim founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as a place for stakeholders to reach consensus around the specification and guidelines to ensure that the Web works for everyone and that it evolves in a responsible manner.

In 2005, Tim and colleagues started the Web Science Trust (WST). WST is building an international, multidisciplinary research community to examine the World Wide Web as “humanity connected by technology”. WST brings together computer scientists, sociologists, mathematicians, policy experts, entrepreneurs, decision makers and many others from around the world to better understand today’s Web and to develop solutions to guide the use and design of tomorrow’s Web.

http://www.webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/
http://home.web.cern.ch/topics/birth-web


Important Events in History of WWW

1990 December 20

The world's first website goes live at Info.cern.ch. The first web page is http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

1993

April 30: Cern releases the World Wide Web source code and announces it will be available free of charge. It also releases a basic browser along with a library of code. By the end of the year there are more than 500 web servers, and the web accounts for 1% of internet traffic.

1994

May 25 - 27: First International World-Wide Web conference, held at CERN.

December: By the end of the year there are 10,000 servers, 2,000 of them commercial. There are 10 million users, with traffic, according to CERN.

1995

July 16: Jeff Bezos launches Amazon.com as an online bookshop from computers in his garage in Seattle, Washington.

August 16: Microsoft launches first version of its Internet Explorer web browser.

1997

September 15: Google.com is registered as a web domain by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.


1999
August
Blogger was started by a tiny company in San Francisco called Pyra Labs in August of 1999.
https://www.blogger.com/about

2000
December: AdSense was launched was Applied Semantics

2002
In late 2002 AdSense was relaunched with more success by Applied Semantics
http://allthingsd.com/20130422/ten-years-later-lessons-from-the-applied-semantics-google-acquisition/

2003
March: Google launched content targeted advertising
April: Google acquired Applied Semantics


2004
February: Harvard psychology student Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook with his college roommates to connect students at the university.

2005

November: A new video-hosting website called YouTube is launched. It allowed users to upload their own user-generated content.

2006

8 February 2006 (Indian Time) I (Narayana Rao, K.V.S.S) became a blogger
http://kvssnrao.blogspot.in/2006/02/became-blogger.html

March: Twitter Inc is created by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass as "a text message service that allowed users to quickly communicate with a small group". The first tweet is sent by @Jack on March 21.

2012
30 June:  World Population: 7,017,846,922   - Internet users: 2,405,518,376  Penetration: 34.3%
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

http://webdirections.org/history/

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/09/history-of-the-world-wide-web_n_4930333.html


2013
End 2013 Internet users: 4.354 billion
6.2 billion Google+ buttons
3.459 billion facebook likes everyday
http://www.factshunt.com/2014/01/world-wide-internet-usage-facts-and.html

759 million websites
14.3 trillion webpages
48 billion indexed by Google
14 billion indexed by Bing
http://www.factshunt.com/2014/01/total-number-of-websites-size-of.html
Global Technology Outlook -IBM for 2013

When did you first publish on world wide web? Write in the comment. Become part of 25 years of history of WWW.

ISP's to Monitor File Sharing and Penalize Users?

Music, Films and TV Program producers and distributors are embracing digital media in a big way but are fighting simultaneously to protect their present channels also. They know that their models have to change as cost of duplicating content and transmitting it  has come down drastically in the internet world. But as yet, they have not found a solution that is destroying their current margins and profits. Files can be more easily shared on internet and banning file sharing through agreements is a not a real solution. That is where free website models have done great service to the society.

There needs to be technology that does not create a file when transmitting film, music or tv program on internet. Then a subscriber can only watch a film on his computer and can't create a file and transfer. But such a technology is not there and people are downloading YouTube videos.

The Films association of America is trying to get into an agreement with Internet Service Providers to monitor users' file sharing and penalise them for sharing files with copyright content.

Read Wharton's article for more details
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=3115

Digg Sold for $500,000 - One More Web Business Down

http://mashable.com/2012/07/12/digg-sold-for-500000/

Google - Performance

This knol is meant for tracking the progress of google. Knol author have interest in the progress of Google. Knol authors have to take interest in promoting their knols as well as knol platform.

Authors

• Narayana Rao

Published

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

Version 20

Last edited: 17 Aug 2011

Exported: 26 Nov 2011

Original URL: http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/2utb2lsm2k7a/551

Warning

 

Google may starve Knol.

 

3rd December 2008

Google, the Internet search engine giant, is resorting to austerity measures, The Wall Street Journal reported.

 

http://infotech.indiatimes.com/News/Look_how_Google_is_cutting_costs/articleshow/3788131.cms

 

Prominent among them include cutting new projects.

Schmidt , CEO, said the company is “not going to give” an engineer 20 people to work with on certain experimental projects anymore.

 

Top executives say they remain committed to projects they believe hold long-term potential, but are prepared to “starve” lesser ones.

 

Knol authors have to come together and do some thing to preserve knol

 

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Some more astonishing news

 

Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry says Google (GOOG) will post revenue declines for the next three years -- $15.71 billion in 2008, $15.23 billion in 2009 and $14.57 billion in 2010.

Chowdhry says contacts tell him Google's number of keywords sold is down 2% to 5%. He claims bids on keywords are down by as much as 20%.

Source:

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/analyst-google-revenues-will-shrink-till-2010

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Yahoo Finance Compilation

Yahoo Finance includes Trip Chowdhry's estimate as the lowest estimate for Google's earnings for 2009.

Revenue Est	Current Qtr Dec-08	Next Qtr Mar-09
Avg. Estimate	4.24B	4.41B	Dec 08 15.87B	Dec 09 18.56B
No. of Analysts	31	18	31	31
Low Estimate	4.03B	3.82B	15.67B	15.23B
High Estimate	4.60B	4.84B	16.24B	21.01B
Year Ago Sales	3.39B	3.70B	11.66B	15.87B
Sales Growth (year/est)	25.2%	19.1%	36.1%	16.9%

Source: 

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ae?s=GOOG (accessed on 5.12.2008)

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Profits down in Dec-08 quarter

 

Revenues increased to $4.2 billiion ($5.7 billion including adsense share of partners). But earnins were only $382 million or $1.21 per share. It is a drop of 68% from the same quarter a year ago. The profit was hit by a $1.5 billion charge for writedowns on investments like AOL and Clearwire and the cost of issuing new stockoptions to employees hwose existing warrants  were below the current share price of the company. Therefore CEO argued that Google has a healthy business in the tough economic climate.

But, he accepted that the future could unchartered territory as conditions could worsen due to recession.

 

Source: HIndustan Times, 24 January 2009, Page 23

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 Knol

There is official announcement that 100,000 knols are already published.

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Google - First Quarter 2009 Results

 

Q1 Financial Summary

Google reported revenues of $5.51 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2009, an increase of 6% compared to the first quarter of 2008 and a decrease of 3% compared to the fourth quarter of 2008. Google reports its revenues, consistent with GAAP, on a gross basis without deducting traffic acquisition costs (TAC). In the first quarter of 2009, TAC totaled $1.44 billion, or 27% of advertising revenues.

GAAP operating income for the first quarter of 2009 was $1.88 billion, or 34% of revenues. This compares to GAAP operating income of $1.86 billion, or 33% of revenues, in the fourth quarter of 2008.

 

GAAP net income for the first quarter of 2009 was $1.42 billion as compared to $382 million in the fourth quarter of 2008.

 

GAAP EPS for the first quarter of 2009 was $4.49 on 317 million diluted shares outstanding, compared to $1.21 for the fourth quarter of 2008 on 317 million diluted shares outstanding.

 

Google Sites Revenues – Google-owned sites generated revenues of $3.70 billion, or 67% of total revenues, in the first quarter of 2009. This represents a 9% increase over first quarter 2008 revenues of $3.40 billion and a 3% decrease from fourth quarter 2008 revenues of $3.81 billion.

 

Google Network Revenues – Google’s partner sites generated revenues, through AdSense programs, of $1.64 billion, or 30% of total revenues, in the first quarter of 2009. This represents a 3% decrease from first quarter 2008 network revenues of $1.69 billion and a 3% decrease from fourth quarter 2008 network revenues of $1.69 billion.

 

International Revenues – Revenues from outside of the United States totaled $2.88 billion, representing 52% of total revenues in the first quarter of 2009, compared to 51% in the first quarter of 2008 and 50% in the fourth quarter of 2008.

 

Employees – On a worldwide basis, Google employed 20,164 full-time employees as of March 31, 2009, down from 20,222 full-time employees as of December 31, 2008.

 

Decrease in Revenue Quarter by Quarter

 

Google reported revenues of $5.51 billion in the first quarter of 2009, representing a 6% increase over first quarter 2008 revenues of $5.19 billion and a 3% decrease from fourth quarter 2008 revenues of $5.70 billion.

Source: http://investor.google.com/releases/2009Q1_google_earnings.html

While the revenue has declined quarter by quarter, the CEO seems to have indicated  a feeling of stength that Google can handle the cost side and weather the recession. That is a good news for google's partners. Google has done some cost cutting and was able to control the cost on a stable or decreasing revenue environment.

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Performance Improvement in Third Quarter 2009

Net Income rose to $1.64 billion (+27%).

Revenue increased to $5.94 billion (+7% over last year and +8% over last quarter)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107204574474822581549710.html

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Progress of Twitter - Will Knol Follow Similar Trend

27.5.2009

I read a news item that twitter's users have jumped to an estimated 32.1 million from 1.6 million a year ago.

Will knol also have a similar performance? In the next year it will grow phenomenally compared to the present visitors and page views.

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Strongest Revenue Growth in Quarter - 4th Quarter 2009

24.1.2010

Google announced that its revenue rose 17% in the 4th quarter of 2009 to $6.67 billion. The net profit quintupled to $1.97 billion or $6.13 a share from $382 million or $1.21 a share, a year ago. Google shares are trading around $558.

 

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2010

 

Google is acquiring companies in 2010.  It is buying around five companies.

It agreed to buy Picnik Inc., online photoediting tool company.

It acquired DocVerse with software that lets people share documents over the internet.

(5.4.2010 Mint, page 7)

 

Hope Google funds Knol also adequately.


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Google Operating and Financial Performance - 2011

First Quarter

Revenues – Google reported revenues of $8.58 billion in the first quarter of 2011, representing a 27% increase over first quarter 2010 revenues of $6.77 billion.  Google reports its revenues, consistent with GAAP, on a gross basis without deducting TAC. 

Google Sites Revenues – Google-owned sites generated revenues of $5.88 billion, or 69% of total revenues, in the first quarter of 2011.  This represents a 32% increase over first quarter 2010 revenues of $4.44 billion.   

Google Network Revenues – Google’s partner sites generated revenues, through AdSense programs, of $2.43 billion, or 28% of total revenues, in the first quarter of 2011.  This represents a 19% increase from first quarter 2010 network revenues of $2.04 billion.

http://investor.google.com/earnings/2011/Q1_google_earnings.html

Results announcements of various quarters and years are available in http://investor.google.com/webcast.html

 

Google's India Bets for 2011

 

Interview by Incoming and Outgoing India Chiefs

http://www.livemint.com/2011/04/14224132/India-will-be-an-8216online.html?atype=tp

 

Googles existing top business areas in India - Search, Gmail, Video, Maps

Further bets Display business, Enterprise Google Apps, Android devices, Small and Medium buinesses onlne advertising

 

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June 2011

 

Google - One Billion Unique Monthly Visitor Company

 

Google became the first internet company in the world to have one billion monthly unique visitors in May 2010. Microsoft website come second with 905 unique monthly visitors.

 

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Passes-the-1-Billion-Monthly-Unique-Visitors-Mark-207464.shtml

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-the-first-company-to-hit-one-billion-monthly-unique-visitors/30745/

 

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Social Media and Languages Learning

Social media, media in which individuals are contributing on their own initiatives on subjects and on topics where they have interest, knowledge and expertise is providing unique content that is helpful to a niches of people looking for a particular way of presenting the subject.  Professional media would not have been able to create so much content with that great variety. It is because professionals expect to be paid every day for their efforts and hence they can not cater to small niches. But a large number of social media contributors are first contributing for the thrill of contributing. Some of them hope to receive some income, but even if they do not receive, they are still content with the satisfaction that they created some useful items for people to use. No doubt still large number of social media contributors say a million are receiving some regular monthly payment.But a million across the world is not a big number. Social media is thriving by providing an opportunity to even to a billion people to contribute an item or other to the pool of digitized knowledge.


I am happy to see number of resources being created in social media to learn languages. Presently I am doing a serious effort to learn Japanese and collecting various online resources in this regard. I am collecting the resources into an online book on learning Japanese.  I am happy to see a Japanese to Telugu dictionary today. (Japanese to Telugu dictionary) The dictionary invites all to contribute to improve the dictionary further. It is a good way using large number of people to develop a knowledge resource.

You are the Hero of Internet - Reddit Cofounder

Reddit cofounder, Alexis Ohanian urges all internet users to stand up and protect internet.

The free to write internet has provided an opportunity to share their unique knowledge, experience and thinking with the rest of the world. Any regulation of this network, must not hinder the this process and limit participation to few individuals who know more legalese and litigation and less about the pheonomena with which only few individuals are familiar with. We do not need journalists to report our answers to their queries in their own words. We want to share with the world our experience in our worlds. Whatever journalists may do can be secondary reporting or curation. But primary experience sharing has to be by individuals who took part in the event.  This opportunity gives every internet user to be the hero of internet.

http://mashable.com/2012/06/11/ohanian-hero/

Online Video (YouTube) has to the potential to deliver $100 million to a top Movie

Avatar earned $760 million in  North American Movie territory.
http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/records/
On Internet as a rerun movie (say after six months of its release in theatres) it can have a billion views and can earn $100 million. Is it a good revenue source?

The revenue potential is being calculated on the basis of 10 ads in the full film and at $10 cpm giving $10 per 100 views for $0.1 per view.

Learned Experts and Internet - Their Influence growing or diminishing?

Andrew Keen gives the opinion that internet is undermining the authority of learned experts. Is it? It may have undermined the incomes of some of the currently successful media businesses. But has it enabled large number of learned people to communicate with larger number of people and thus enhanced their ability to serve more people with their knowledge? Yes it certainly helped large number of faculty members of top institutions to publish their output and make it accessible to global audience. This enabled many people who are searching for answers to find more useful answers. The print media operated under constraints and hence could not provide opportunity to large number of learned people to convert their ideas into accessible products. Digital media is much more economical and hence it provided the opportunity to much larger people and the society really benefited from it.


Read the book: The Cluetrain Manifesto and the 95 theses

Andrew Keen's Interview on the Cult of Amateur
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Read the comment by David Weinberger
August 2007

Article by Keen on Dark Side of Digital Media April 2007

Digital Vertigo - Another view by Andrew Keen
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Related

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cult_of_the_Amateur

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheCultOfTheAmateur

http://www.gmj.uottawa.ca/0901/v2i1_antoine.pdf

http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2007/09/the-cult-of-the.html

YouTube Videos for Webmasters

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Google Webmaster Tools verification

Youtube Videos for Webmasters

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Why verify your site?

Privacy is important to Google, which is why Google Webmaster Tools asks you to prove you own a site before showing you stats and data about it. Verification doesn't affect PageRank or affect your site's performance in Google's search results.
To verify that you own a site, you can either add a meta tag to your home page (proving that you have access to the source files), or upload a specific HTML file to your server (proving that you have access to the server). Webmaster Tools will check to see that the file or tag is present. If it is, Google considers you a site owner and will show you site details.

FAQs

Q: I'm getting an error when trying to verify my site with an HTML file, even though my file is visible in my browser.
A: Look at the specific error that Webmaster Tools is showing and read the help content for that error.
The Live HTTP Headers Firefox extension or an online HTTP result code viewer such as Web-Sniffer can be helpful in figuring out what status code a page is returning. Your homepage should return a HTTP result code 200. If you use file-based verification, the verification file should also return a HTTP result code 200 and must contain only the content provided by Webmaster Tools. 

Q: Does it matter whether my Webmaster Tools verification meta tag is in HTML or XHTML?
A: We'll be able to find your meta tag no matter which format you use. Webmaster Tools provides the meta tag in XHTML by default, but you're welcome to change it to HTML; this won't prevent you from verifying ownership of your site. The meta tag version that you choose does not affect Google's ability to crawl and index your website.

Q: How can I give someone else access to my Webmaster Tools account?
A: Verified owners can add additional owners to a site.  Click the "Manage" link next to the site's name on the home page and select "Add or remove owners" to go to the Verificatio details page.  From this page, you can click the "Add an owner..." button and add another Google account.

Which method should I use - meta tag, HTML, DNS or Analytics code?

If you can't add files to your server (for example, if you create your site using a tool such as Blogger), adding a meta tag or verifying ownership via Google Analytics is the best way. If you have direct access to your server, you may find it easier and faster to upload an HTML file. If you access Webmaster Tools via a web hoster such as GoDaddy, your site is already verified.  Verification with DNS requires a bit more technical know-how, but allows you to verify ownership of an entire domain (and all of the sites within that domain). Other hosting services provide their own procedures for verification in Google Webmaster Tools. Check with your provider for more information.
The verification by meta tag shows to some extent if the Google verification bot can parse the content of your home page, so it gives this extra information compared to verification by file upload.

How to verify a site

1. Sign into Google Webmaster Tools with your Google Account.
2. Click Verify next to the site you want.
3. In the Choose verification method list, select the verification method that works best for you.
• Add a meta tag - Google will ask you to add a META tag with a unique value to your site's home page. 
• Upload an HTML file - Google will ask you to download a file and upload it to a specific location. 
• Add a DNS record - Google will ask you to add a TXT record to your domain's DNS configuration.
• Link to your Google Analytics account - You can use this option if your site already has a Google Analytics tracking code that uses the asynchronous snippet. You must be an administrator on the Analytics account.

Potential errors

Occasionally, you might receive an error when verifying your site. These can occur for a number of reasons:

DNS and server errors and timeouts: These can prevent Google from looking up your domain name. If you get a message that Google couldn't look up your domain name because of an error or a timeout, make sure your domain is resolving correctly and try again. Also, check in case your server is down or overloaded and responding slowly. If your server is repeatedly unreachable, you may wish to contact your hoster for additional help.

HTML file errors: The most common errors happen because the file name is incorrect or the file hasn't been uploaded to the directory listed by the Verify button. Don't modify the HTML verification file in any way - just download it from Webmaster Tools, and upload without changes to your server.

Meta tag errors: Make sure that you've copied and pasted the meta tag to your site's home page - the page your server returns when someone requests your site. Also, make sure that it's in the <HEAD> section of the page, like this:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Your Title</TITLE>
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="String_we_ask_for" />
</HEAD>
<BODY>

Try to have as correct (X)HTML mark-up as possible, to help the verification bot parse correctly your home page and find the meta verification tag,
If you wish to check your server access logs when you have a verification error, the Google verification bot identifies itself as "Google-Sitemaps/1.0". For information on verifying subdomains and subdirectories, allowing multiple users and other issues see site verification.

Verifying on Blogger

Blogger has integrated with Webmaster Tools, so verifying your blog is now simpler than ever.

1. From your Blogger Dashboard, click on the Webmaster Tools link (in the Tools and Resources section)
2. That link should take you to the Webmaster Tools home page.  Click Add a site.
3. Enter your blog's URL (http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com) and click Continue.
   

Verifying on Google Sites

See our help center for full instructions on verifying your Google Site.

Verifying sites on GoDaddy

Verifying a site hosted on GoDaddy is easy. 

1. Make sure you have created a Webmaster Tools account for your GoDaddy account.
2. Sign in to your GoDaddy Account Manager.
3. In the My Products section, click Hosting.
4. Click Manage Account next to the hosting account you want to manage.
5. In the Content section, click the Google Webmaster Tools icon. The Google Webmaster Tools page will open.
6. Select the domains you want to verify. 
7. Click Verify.

GoDaddy Website Tonight

1. Go to Page designer or Design your pages.
2. Choose your "Home Page" as the page to modify, if it isn't shown already.
   
3. Select the Page tab, choose Properties, then Meta Data.
4. Under Custom Meta Tags, click Add Meta Tag.
5. Enter google-site-verification for the name, enter the given verification string (eg uEtG4638yY...) as the content.  
6. Click OK to save, and finally Publish to update the live homepage.
   

More information from GoDaddy as well as in their Help Center.

Verifying on Apple iWeb

The easiest way to verify a site created in iWeb is to upload an HTML file to your server.

1. Sign into Google Webmaster Tools with your Google Account. If you haven't added your site to your account, do it now.
2. Click Verify next to the site you want.
3. In the Choose verification method list, select Upload an HTML file. Google will ask you to download a file and upload it without changes to a specific directory on your webserver. 
4. Move the verification file to your iDisk /Web/Sites/ folder to upload it to your server. 
5. Click Verify in your Webmaster Tools account. Google will check your server to see if the file is present. If it finds it, your site will be verified, and you'll have access to all the information in Webmaster Tools.

iWeb FAQ 

Verifying on Microsoft Office Live

When you verify a Microsoft Office Live site, you'll need to make a few changes to make sure that the meta tag appears correctly in your HTML. (For more information, check out Solutions for Office Live.)

1. Make sure you've added your site to your Google Webmaster Tools account.
2. Sign into Google Webmaster Tools with your Google Account.
3. On the Home page, click Verify next to the site you want.
4. In the Choose verification method list, select Add a meta tag.
5. Copy the meta tag that appears on the page and paste it into a text file. It'll look something like this:  <meta name="google-site-verification" content="uEtG4638yYT42PzvFua6iiR1v+iJ2lfnUpZ/cJPdzKM=" />
   Note: Keep the Webmaster Tools window open.
   
6. In this step, you'll create a new meta tag using the ID Google provides. Copy the following text and paste it into the same text file:  %22%20%2F%3E%3Cmeta name=%22google-site-verification%22 content=%22
   
7. Copy the ID from the tag provided by Google, and paste it at the end of the string above. It will look something like this:  %22%20%2F%3E%3Cmeta name=%22google-site-verification%22 content=%22uEtG4638yYT42PzvFua6iiR1v%2BiJ2lfnUpZ/cJPdzKM=
   Note: If the tag provided by Google contains "+", you'll need to replace it with %2B.
   
8. In Office Live, open your site's home page (default.aspx).
9. Open Page Properties and paste the string above into the Keywords box, after any keywords you have already added. The Keywords box does have a size limit, so check to see that the whole tag was pasted correctly.
10. Go back to Webmaster Tools, and click Verify.

Verifying on Netfirms

1. Login to your Netfirms Control Panel.
2. Click Applications.
3. Select Website Tools.
4. Click Webmaster Tools.
5. In the Add Webmaster Tools section, use the pull-down menu to select a domain you wish to setup with Google Webmaster Tools.
6. To add a default Sitemap for your site, click the corresponding Add button.

You can either use a default sitemap.xml that is created for you, or a customized sitemap.xml file that you or a 3rd party program has created. Using the interface you can submit either of those to Google.
Completing the above steps will also accomplish the following:

• Create a Google Webmaster Tools account on behalf of the registrant.
• Submit the selected domain name to Google’s search engine for indexing.
• A confirmation file in the selected domain’s home directory will be created to allow Google to visit that link. The file created looks similar to: googlefdh35sdh48dfhr734.html.

Verifying on Mr. Site

1. Make sure you've added your site to your Google Webmaster Tools account.
2. Sign into Google Webmaster Tools with your Google Account.
3. On the Home page, click Verify next to the site you want.
4. In the Choose verification method list, select Upload an HTML file.
5. Download the HTML verification file as instructed, and save it on your computer.
6. You will now upload this file to your website via FTP (you can use a free FTP client like FileZilla if you don't already have one). Open FileZilla (or your FTP client) and go to Edit > Settings > Connection > FTP.
7. Make sure you select the Active Transfer Mode and uncheck "Allow fall back to other transfer mode on failure." Click "OK" to save your changes.
8. In the bar at the top of FileZilla, fill the following fields with your information:
   Address: www.example.com (replace “example.com” with your website name)
   Username: example.com (replace “example.com” with your website name)
   Password: Your original Mr. Site activation code in capital letters
   Port: 21
9. Click on the ‘Quick Connect’ button. Once you've been logged in, click on the wwwroot folder (in the ‘Remote Site’ column) and then upload your HTML verification file by locating it in the ‘Local Site’ column. Simply double click to upload.
10. In Webmaster Tools, click the "Verify" button.

You can also watch this video on how to upload via FTP.

Verifying your site on other popular hosting setups

There are many hosting environments that make verification with Webmaster Tools a fairly straight-forward process. These are just some of them:

• WordPress blogs [from support.wordpress.com]  
• Yahoo! Small Business [from help.yahoo.com]
• Ning [from blog.ning.com]
  
• Weebly [from kb.weebly.com]
• Yola [from www.yola.com/tutorials/]
• DotNetNuke [from www.dotnetnuke.com]
  
• Slicehost (via DNS) [from www.robertbolton.com]

Getting more help

• Webmaster Tools Help Center : The official documentation for Google Webmaster Tools
• Webmaster Tools Help Forum: Search there. Chances are, someone's already asked your question. Google employees regularly monitor this forum and answer questions, as do many other webmasters.
• Webmaster Central blog: The latest news, tips, and advice from the Google team.

Source Knol

http://knol.google.com/k/google-webmaster-tools-verification

Posted under creative commons 3.0 attribution license

Authors

Sagar Kamdar

Gary Illyes

John Mueller

Susan Moskwa

Riona MacNamara

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Internet - Digital Broadband Channel for Motion Films - Movies

Time has come to develop an internet channel for motion films. On this channel producers must be able to release the film along with the release in theaters. The money is collected for viewing the film in the initial period through advance booking. The required bandwidth for satisfying any among of demand can be provided through cloud computing infrastructure. If more people book the movie more bandwidth is provided and less number of people book the movie less bandwidth is provided.

Technology companies are doing their efforts to improve various aspects so that internet digital movie channel provides the same quality as television or cable channel.

This white paper by Microsoft described the features of Windows 9 that make internet digital movie channel deliver more quality.

Hollywood production houses have realized this long back. Two ventures were announced in 2001. Moviefly and Movies.com. You can read about Moviesfly and Movies.com in this information week article.

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In this article on Read Write Web, it is stated that Movie industry made #30 billion in box-office receipts and $87 billion in total receipts.

If a digital channel is opened and every day 100 million watch the movies on the first day of its release by paying $1, the industry can get $100 million a day and that amounts to $36,500 million a year or $36.5 billion a year. How much of it will be incremental revenue and how much will be cannibalized from existing revenues is a question for further estimation. But the market size is substantially big for film industry to innovate.

Statistics about film industry 2010 - MPAA (USA)
About Film Halls in London (2009 article)  Cheaptest one pound to expensive 30 pounds

Internet 2010 - Statitics

Visit

http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/01/12/internet-2010-in-numbers/

Blogs 152 million blogs (tracked by Blogpulse_ End 2010.
websites 255 million
(Total sites looking for ad revenue; 400 million

$2.6 billion is the revenue generated by partner sites in third quarter of 2011.

68% of it is the income to partners approximately. It comes out to be $1.768 billion. This means on an average $4.42 are available for each web property for a quarter. It means $1.5 per month. So any author earning $100 has to be on to put in great effort.