Web hosting site GoDaddy.com saw the largest lift in post-Super Bowl traffic, with a 41% increase in unique U.S. visitors during the week following the game compared to the week before.

Americans spend nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs, up from 15.8 percent just a year ago (a 43 percent increase) according to new research released today from The Nielsen Company.

Along with its listing of the top brands and companies on the web for June 2010, The Nielsen Company also found that the average time spent online in the U.S. grew more than three percent compared to the previous month.

The size of the U.K. Internet audience grew from 36.9 million people in May 2009 to 38.8 million people in May 2010. Of these 1.9 million new Internet users, 1.0 million (53 percent) were at least 50 years old.

In April 2007, Social Networks & Blogs accounted for less than nine percent of all UK Internet time, but in three years the sector has grown to account for almost 23 percent of U.K. Internet time.

As sites like Twitter and Facebook continue to grow, global consumers spent more than five and half hours on social networking sites in December 2009.

The Nielsen Company today reported December 2009 data for the Top Parent Companies/Divisions and Top Web Brands, as well as average Internet usage.

The Nielsen Company today reported November 2009 data for the Top Parent Companies/Divisions and Top Web Brands, as well as average Internet usage.

Americans have nearly tripled the amount of time they spend at social networking and blog sites such as Facebook and MySpace from a year ago.

The conflict between hippies and their parents in the 1960s gave rise to a new term: the generation gap.  Ever since, the phrase has been an easy way to define the differences in attitudes, politics and culture between the young and their elders.  And while the generation gap seen today between aging Baby Boomers and a younger, fast-growing, multi-cultural population may not be as pronounced or dramatic as it was 40 years ago, the ramifications for the U.S. in 2020 are just as big, and perhaps even more so.
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