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Posted: 18 Apr 2010 02:07 PM PDT

I was reading on Mashable a interesting post on a survey done which shows a bit of a snapshot of the websites which companies visit with their super fast internet connections. Obviously here we cannot expect shopping portals or blogs to really dominate but expect Social networking websites along Search websites dominating which websites are visited by the corporate world.

Here below is the list of top 5 websites which hog bandwidth for companies according to Network-Box

YouTube – 10 %
Facebook – 4.5 %
Windows Update – 3.3 %
Yimg (Yahoo!’s image server) – 2.7 %
Google – 2.5 %

I often see many people arguing for and against banning social networking websites as they waste company time and resources according to many management gurus. But clearly shows that at least when it comes to bandwidth You Tube hogs the bandwidth twice as much as Facebook which is 2nd place.

On the other hand Google comes at a paltry 2.5 % which is incredible as most people are searching and that ideally wont be too much bandwidth.

I decided to check how much time I spend on You tube myself and I actually spend quite a bit of time and I am sure even for personal users You Tube must be a top hog of the bandwidth.

So my question is should’nt IT admins ban You Tube rather than Facebook and Orkut ? Or is You Tube very educational but then some can argue so are social networking sites.

What are you thoughts on it? Do drop in your comments to let me know about them.

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Now save contacts from Twitter and Gmail with Mozilla

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 05:35 AM PDT

Long are the days gone when all your online contacts were just Email addresses which could be downloaded on your computer thanks to a Email client. Today we have Email friends, Facebook contacts and most importantly the people you follow on Twitter.
Mozilla Contacts is a extension which is still in Mozilla Labs and allows for downloading and storing your email, twitter, Gravtaar contacts. The idea behind this browser extension is to allow a better comprehensive database of your contacts.

About Mozilla Contacts

Mozilla Contacts is a great Firefox add-on which helps your save up and backup all your contacts on Gmail, twitter and Address Book on local computer along with Gravatar Images.
These contacts are available on now on Firefox and can be used for various things like searching up for contacts and email address of people you have saved. For instance you might have saved someones email address but use it on another email service you do not have to import the contacts but just use them from Mozilla contacts.
Also there is the auto-complete for email address which is very valuable when it comes to filling in forms on websites.

This is still a test tool and hence there are further plans by Mozilla to improve on it and make it truly a great browser experience. This will include things linking up various contacts of the same person automatically. So this way you can see someones Twitter Id, Email address and other details under one name or identity, but these features are not rolled out as yet.

This is a great addition to Firefox along with Weave and also Test Pilot of Firefox. I think it will has great potential, what do you think?

Do try out this extension and let us know if you liked it and what you liked about it. Do drop in your comments.

Link: Mozilla Contacts

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