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Youtube has officially enabled High Quality in embedded videos. The new embedded player sports a little HQ button in the expandable menu, which is strangely absent from Youtube’s on-site player. (http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/01/23/youtube-enables-hq-in-embedded-videos 1/23)

The number of people on the Internet surpassed one billion in December, according to comScore. The actual number is probably higher than that (Internet World Stats counted nearly 1.5 billion Web surfers worldwide as of June 30, 2008). In any case, only between 15 and 22 percent of the world’s population is on the Internet. We have a long way to go. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/23/comscore-internet-population-passes-one-billion-top-15-countries 1/23)