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How Do I … make my browser load the latest version of some page?
Most of the time your Web browser will look and see if there’s a difference between a page you’re visiting and any cached version of that same page (on your hard drive in the cache). Sometimes there are changes but the browser might not see them as huge, so it loads the cached version.
To force the Firefox browser to load the latest page, use Control-R. For Internet Explorer, use Control-F5.
Smart search: Not really a search engine, Compete.com is a competitive intelligence tool used by lots of Web folks to track sites and determine online consumer behavior. The site’s free version has useful data tools to watch traffic levels over time and other tidbits, such as which search words are most frequently used before turning to a given site. The second most common search term for Itron’s corporate site, says Compete, is “universal shelf registration.”
Compete also lets you compare Web traffic of up to three sites, displayed on a graph.
Video challenge winner: Last week’s challenge (based on the YouTube video “Crazy Squirrels”) produced exactly one person who answered correctly. The song used as accompaniment for the video is “A Fifth of Beethoven” by Walter Murphy. Getting it right is Shon Harris of Smelterville, Idaho. Harris said having the soundtrack to “Saturday Night Fever” helped. He gets a $5 coffee card on us.
Jargon 2.0: Copyleft (n.) - A play on the word copyright, copyleft is a type of license allowing anyone to modify or reproduce a work or product. If copyright prevents others from making money from reproducing some work, copyleft lets them distribute it, change it and redistribute it freely.
Social networking keeps growing, but most of the fast growth has been happening overseas.
According to new data gathered by comScore, North American use of social network sites grew (in users) by just 9 percent. The overall worldwide growth rate is 25 percent. The biggest region of growth is the Middle East and Africa, with 66 percent growth in the past year, said comScore.
In that region, Facebook grew 400 percent since one year earlier — from roughly 3,000 users to about 14,900. Other sites gaining ground in the Middle East are d1g.com and Faye3.com.