Stats watch: Photo-hosting (and sharing)spikes up

new netratings data reports that as more and more users integrate photos into their blog pages--and as the world reports on world events--the amount of photo-publishing and hosting has grown more than 406% since january 2005, with photo-hosting sites (including blog asps) accounting for 10% of active internet users.netratings reports that top referring sites for the top five image hosting sites during august2005 included myspace.com, xanga.com, livejournal, blogger and msn spaces.injuly 2005, nielsen//netratings reported that 20 percent of active web users, or 29.3 million people, accessed blogging or blog-related web sites, growing31 percent since the beginning of the year.money quote is from jon gibbs, research manager: "the large rise in blogging activity has lifted other web sites, the...