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The Top 20 Social Networks are shown below for week ending January 30, 2010. Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Tagged and Twitter take the top 5 spots.

The Top 20 Websites for Week Ending January 30, 2010 are shown below. Google, Facebook and Yahoo Mail take the Top 3 spots.

The following chart shows websites for the industry ‘Computers and Internet – Social Networking and Forums’, ranked by Visits for the week ending 12/26/2009.

U.K. and France See Significant Gains in Online Retail Traffic in November, With More Modest Growth in Germany
comScore, Inc. today released a report on visitation to online retail sites in the U.K., France and Germany during the Christmas shopping season. The study analyzed the total number of visits to online retail sites during [...]

U.S. Online Holiday Spending Reaches $16 Billion for First 36 Days of the November-December Shopping Season. 28 Percent of Holiday Shoppers Say Social Media has Influenced Holiday Purchases

Guitar Hero(R) is the first console videogame franchise to surpass 1 million Facebook fans demonstrating the global appeal and passion for the brand that is quickly becoming the next platform for experiencing music and social interaction.

Facebook Guitar Hero Fan Page
Guitar Hero isthe #1 best-selling third party video game franchise in North America and Europe [...]

U.S. visits to social networking sites have increased 62 percent year over year;
visits from 55 and older age group have increased 77 percent
Facebook accounted for 58.59 percent of all U.S. visits among a custom category of 155 social networking Web sites in September 2009. The 58 percent was the highest among all social networking [...]

As Myspace.com continues its strategic move toward becoming an “entertainment portal,” the growth to Myspace Music should help cement their presence in this space. Since the site’s launch in September 2008, unique visitors to the music.myspace.com subdomain have increased 190 percent — growing from 4.2 million unique visitors to 12.1 million in June 2009. [...]

As theories circulate about the actual dollar value of sites like Facebook and Myspace—just last week analysts placed Facebook’s worth at $10 billion—there is no question that people continue to gravitate towards social networking and blog sites. In the U.S. alone, total minutes spent on social networking sites has increased 83 percent year-over-year. In [...]

NASA astronaut Mark Polansky, commander of the next space shuttle mission to the International Space Station in June, is sharing updates about his training and flight on Twitter. He invites followers to submit video questions via YouTube that he will answer from orbit.

Polansky, a New Jersey native and former Air Force test pilot, will command the space shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-127, a flight targeted for launch June 13 to deliver the final portions of the space station’s Japanese laboratory. While posting tweets about his crew’s training, Polansky also will select video questions submitted by followers. The videos will be transmitted to orbit during the mission and answered live during a special event that will be broadcast on NASA Television and posted to Polansky’s Twitter and YouTube pages.