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Welcome to a new edition of “On the Net Today”, the newsletter where every Friday we share a selection of useful and interesting resources to help you get the most out of the internet and make the best use of your browsing time.

Here are the topics we’ve prepared for today:

Once again, TIME magazine has unveiled its list of the 100 people it considers the most influential in the world this year. The list includes leaders, pioneers, artists, innovators, and icons from a wide range of fields and backgrounds.

The magazine has produced four different covers featuring four of the figures on the TIME100 2026 list: comedian Nikki Glaser, actress Zoe Saldaña, actor Wagner Moura, and singer Luke Combs — all of whom have made their mark on culture this year.

TIME editor Sam Jacobs has explained how the magazine puts the list together: “All year, we debate who belongs on the TIME100. There is no single metric that defines influence. Our selections are led by the stories that are shaping the world each year and the people who write them. Some are well known to many, others only within their fields. To find them, we poll our editors, reporters, and sources around the world, and review the recommendations that are sent to us every day. Few people, we suspect, will be familiar with all 100 individuals. We believe that is part of the appeal of the TIME100, now well into its third decade, and the reason it has endured.”

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AI company Anthropic, the creator of Claude, offers free online AI courses through the Anthropic Academy.

The courses, available to any user, cover everything from basic training needs for beginners to advanced developer topics.

The course catalog addresses both personal and professional uses of Claude. All courses include videos and step-by-step guides, and offer a completion certificate at no cost.

Here are some of the available courses:

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If you work in social media, you’ve likely already received the Metricool LinkedIn 2026 study in your inbox. The Spanish tech company analyzed and cross-referenced data from more than 60,000 accounts and 600,000 posts from 2025 to establish what works — and what Social Media Managers using the professional network (owned by Microsoft since 2016) should change today.

The report distinguishes between five types of accounts based on follower count: Huge (+1M), Big (100k–1M), Medium (10k–100k), Small (2k–10k), and Tiny (0–2k). This makes the results useful, easily comparable, and representative enough to be applicable more broadly.

The core finding of the study concerns user impact and interaction: impressions, likes, comments, and shares are all down. Yet engagement is up. How can that be? The “culprit” is the carousel. While it’s not the most commonly used format by either Company Pages or Personal Profiles (one carousel is published for every six images), carousels carry a set of invisible interactions — such as swipes and clicks — that may go unnoticed but directly affect the level of interest a post generates. That makes it the best-performing format.

Among the most striking findings: only 6.89% of brands grew in 2025, and the engagement rate of a Company Page with fewer than 2K followers is 15% — virtually the same as a page 500 times its size.

The full 42-page study — packed with illustrations, charts, and data — is now available for download to help you get the most out of your company and professional LinkedIn accounts.

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The internet has gone through many phases. One of them was Web 2.0.

In the previous edition of “On the Net Today” we asked which phrase became a cultural hallmark of AOL. The correct answer was “You’ve got mail.”

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