Web 2.0 on the rise

Market researcher comScore reports big growth in the use of social-networking tools.

The number of unique visits to social-networking Web sites by people who are at work rose by 20 percent in the past year.

June 2008 — 40.1 million

June 2009 — 48.3 million

Source: comScore

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