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The Pew Internet & American Life Project has released its Broadband Adoption 2007 report.

The report finds that nearly half (47%) of all adult Americans now have a high-speed internet connection at home, according to a February 2007 survey conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The percentage of Americans with broadband at home has grown from 42% in early 2006 and 30% in early 2005. Among individuals who use the internet at home, 70% have a high-speed connection while 23% use dialup.

The 12% growth rate from 2006 to 2007 represents trails the 40% increase in the 2005 to 2006 timeframe, when many people in the middle-income and older age groups acquired home broadband connections. Those groups continued to show increases in home broadband adoption into early 2007, but at lower rates than in the past.

Full report here.

Good morning! It’s 07-07-07 today. I’ll bet some nutter somewhere thinks that means something.

Interesting. Daily Telegraph reports that

Facebook is closing in on rival social networking website MySpace, after almost doubling its US traffic over the past year.

The group has enjoyed an 89pc rise in visitors, recording 26.6m visitors in May alone, according to internet information provider comScore.

The flood of new traffic follows Facebook’s decision in September to open up registration to the general public, a change from its previous policy requiring a valid email address from a university or selected group of secondary schools and businesses.
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Its traffic had hovered at around 14m users a month until September. Since then it has recorded monthly leaps of up to 4m new users.

The website has seen dramatic growth among 25 to 34-year-old users, up 181pc year-on-year.

It also saw a rise of 149pc in the teenage bracket.

MySpace attracts around 69m users each month, but grew at less than half the rate of Facebook last year, recording a 34pc climb in unique visitors.

In a recent poll, 73pc of readers told The Daily Telegraph they had switched from MySpace to Facebook.

Somehow, I can’t see readers of the Telegraph being comfortable on MySpace.