Internet usage in Sweden droped sharply after new file sharing laws. This legislation makes it possible to order any Swedish Internet operator to provide details identifying suspected copyright infringers. The effects of the new laws were almost instant. The day the laws came into effect, local news media Netnod reported that Internet traffic was 30 […]

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According to a survey done by Statistics Iceland for the year 2008, Reykjavik has nearly 100% penetration of fast connection that is (ADSL or other types of xDSL connections), this changes very little when comes to region outside, goes down to 90%. So of a population of 319.326 some 305.000 have good access to the […]

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The annual Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference and Expo (RIMC) will be taking place on Friday 20th March in Reykjavik, Iceland this year. The conference focuses on Online communications and Internet marketing in a International Environment.
Speakers include Sion Portman, European Marketing Manager – Nike, Adam Lasnik, Search Evangelist – Google, Rand Fiskin, CEO – SEOmoz, Ben […]

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According to Elvar Arason researcher and a senior consultat at ABSmedia Iceland nearly all Icelanders aged 20 to 29 are registered on Facebook. This social media website is a huge success in the country to say the least.
Nearly half of the nation is registered or just under 120.000 people and nearly everybody in the age […]

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Statistics Iceland has published the results of its seventh survey on the use of ICT and the Internet by Icelandic households and individuals. The survey was conducted earlier this year and shows how the vast majority of Icelandic households have one or more computers and access to the Internet. In 2008, 92% of the households […]

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Google has added ten new languages to its translation service bringing the total to 23, Google also added a “detect language” option for those that need.
The languages are Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Swedish.
This feature allows Google to automatically detect the language of the text and more text means more […]

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Google starting to deal in a proper way with inflected languages such as Icelandic by stripping away the grammar. Icelandic users have had to put up with the search engine’s illiteracy by entering their searches in various cases, numbers, genders, tenses and then do it all over again with the definite article and so on. […]

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The world’s largest search engine misses out on localization, how? Spelling error, I’m I feeling lucky button was changed to “Freysta gæfunnar”, the problem is that there is no y in freysta so the search engine that has 50% of the Icelandic population searching is greeting the Icelandic nation with a spelling error! Pls. Google […]

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The annual Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference and Expo (RIMC) will be taking place on Friday 8th February at the Hilton Nordica in Reykjavik, Iceland. The conference focuses on Internet marketing and advertising, and the possibilities created by employing a structured promotional approach and focused advertising campaigns.
Speakers include international and Icelandic experts in media and marketing. […]

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On the 29th of November this year active domain number 20,000 became real in Iceland. The twist to this is that the 29th of November 2007 is very close to the 20 year birthday of the Internet in Iceland. The year was 1987, late fall, when the father of the Internet in Iceland, Maríus Ólafsson, […]

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The headline is taken from a slide where Andy Atkins Kruger of WebCertain demonstrates the importance of having local people translating.
I moderated a session at SMX Stockholm last week called “Global Search Marketing Tactics” where I had Andy, Sara Anderson of Global strategies, Hannah Evershed from Isobar and Joost de Valk of One to Market.
Hannah, […]

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It might not be a surprice but India is booming, the country might only be a sub-continent, but it is a mega-country to be in regards of internet usage, but the rise is slower than expected. According to a recent “India Online Overview report” done by eMarketer India has “only” reached 10.5 million broadband households […]

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Google moon just got updated and now boost great features such as higher-resolution map imagery, text search, photos and stories from all the Apollo landings. This is great, but if they can do the moon they must be able to do Iceland properly? For good maps of my beautiful home country Iceland (Google earth style) […]

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Recent studies have shown that in Germany Google leads with a market share of 88.5% (I though Google had a foothold in the UK with around 79%). Yahoo has just over 3%, followed by the only local engine, ISP T-Online with 2.2%. Others on the list with just under 1.5% are MSN and AOL.
Most surprisingly […]

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As companies get wiser about the Internet and understand that Google is not the beginning, the middle and the end in search in every country the start realising that “only” marketing in English might to cover it in France, Norway, China or Iceland. In Iceland leit.is seams to stay strong after the Google invasion and […]

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Nearly 25% of Internet users in the UK is over the age of 50 and a the latest surveys shoe that the Internet is even more popular than gardening among UK pensioners. A generation in the UK is growing up taking the “always-on” connectivity for granted. For them the Internet is a virtual playground […]

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With the completion of a second undersea cable between Iceland and the UK scheduled for 2008 the country will add yet another reason to the long list of why it is being considered one of the best places in the world for high-security data storage. Iceland is not only a peaceful country but also rich on energy, space and technology knowledge. Not forgetting the stable economic environment.

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The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) recently found that at the end of 2006, the number of Internet users in China had reached an estimated 137 million. This puts them second only to the United States in number of people online, and represents a penetration rate of 10.5% (compared to roughly 70% in the […]

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The Study Concluded that the typical British computer user spends just over 160 minutes on the internet every day, compared with 148 minutes watching TV - that’s about 41 days spent online every year. Apart from sleeping and working this is more than any other activity done by the average Briton.
For more information check out […]

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