Latest trends in online traffic momentum - it’s about "community"

If you read through this Washington Post story you will probably note there is a trend of which types of websites experienced the biggest traffic increases over the past 12 months: community websites.

Of the 50 biggest websites in the world, the biggest movers-and-shakers were sites involving social networking, blogging and or local information (ie, MySpace, Blogger, Wikipedia, CitySearch). What do they all have in common? They are all sites representing their community. In most cases these sites that are actually powered by their community. Maybe we just all want to belong to something/someone?

The traffic data came from ComScore.com.