Online Site Trends

Luke Welling of Hitwise showed up some trends using the Hitwise database. It is mostly site visits. Interesting to compare this with Google Trends and Tiobe.
Mailing lists seem to be getting replaced by feeds.
Ubuntu matching Debian in May 06. Redhat is still getting more visits than all of the others combined.
PostGres is gaining on MySQL and Oracle is in slow decline.
PHP continues its dominance over Perl and other dynamic languages.
Digg.com eclipsed slashdot.org in 2005.
Wikipedia is huge.
DEL.ICIO.US went crazy last year.
feedster.com dropped off after site difficulties and is now coming up.

By Greg Luck

As Terracotta’s CTO, Greg (@gregrluck) is entrusted with understanding market and technology forces and the business drivers that impact Terracotta’s product innovation and customer success. He helps shape company and technology strategy and designs many of the features in Terracotta’s products. Greg came to Terracotta on the acquisition of the popular caching project Ehcache which he founded in 2003. Prior to joining Terracotta, Greg served as Chief Architect at Australian online travel giant Wotif.com. He also served as a lead consultant for ThoughtWorks on accounts in the United States and Australia, was CIO at Virgin Blue, Tempo Services, Stamford Hotels and Resorts and Australian Resorts and spent seven years as a Chartered Accountant in KPMG’s small business and insolvency divisions. He is a regular speaker at conferences and contributor of articles to the technical press.