As Facebook grows in user base, their year on year growth rate has started to stabilize. It is just over half of the YOY growth last April (98%). The month-on-month traffic fell 10% this April. Here is the YOY growth rate of top social networks for April 2008: MySpace : 3% Facebook : 56% Classmates [...]

Here is the top 10 list of the most popular websites visited by Indians on their mobile phones. No surprise, social networking tops the list: 1. www.orkut.com 2. www.google.com 3. in.m.yahoo.com 4. www.peperonity.com 5. gallery.mobile9.com 6. www.mocospace.com 7. www.160by2.com 8. www.mobango.com 9. www.itsmy.com 10. www.indianrail.gov.in

Gartner predicts that 2.3 trillion text messages will be sent through the major world markets in 2008 (up from 1.9 trillion SMSes in 2007)! And the leader, as one would expect is not USA which accounts for only 301 billion (up from 189 billion in 2007), but the Asian markets. Here is a prediction of [...]

The blogosphere has always been critical of the Chinese government’s censorship of content online. Surprisingly, most Chinese surveyed are okay with the way things are: Internet should be controlled : 84% Pornography : 87% Violent Content : 86% Spam/Junk : 83% Advertisements : 66% Personal Slander : 64% Chatting : 27% Politics : 41%

More than one third of American women participated actively or passively in the blogosphere: Participate in the Blogosphere : 36.2% Read and/or post comments on blogs : 21.1% Publish at least one blog post : 15.1%

Any not-so-internet savvy friend would wonder if people actually visit blogs and read them. However, with increase in the number of blogs, the readership is also projected to increase. The following is the growth projection of blog readers; as a percentage of internet users in the US: 2007 : 50% 2008 : 54% 2009 : [...]

Social Network Ad revenues account for 5.5% of revenue from all web ad revenues in US in 2008. This is predicted to increase to 6% in 2009. However, this is expected to lower to 5.8% or $2.4 billion by 2011 and lower further to 5.1% or $2.6 billion by 2012.

This study is based on the October 2007 study of the internet access (in percentage terms) among the different races in America: BROADBAND White : 54.9% Black : 36.4% Hispanic : 35.2% Asian : 69.1% American Indian/Alaska Native : 29.8% DIAL UP White : 11.8% Black : 8.4% Hispanic : 8% Asian : 6.1% American [...]

The Sun was the most widely read online UK newspaper for the month of March 2008. Here is a list of the Top 10: 1. The Sun Online 2. Guardian.co.uk 3. Telegraph Group 4. Times Online 5. DailyMail.co.uk 6. Independent.co.uk 7. Mirror.co.uk 8. Financial Times Group 9. Metro.co.uk 10. ThisIsLondon.co.uk

Microsoft Zune, the portable media player developed as a rival to the iPod has completed two years of launch. It now has reached a milestone two million units of sales. Compare this with 140 million numbers of iPod sales since 2001 which now holds 71% of the market Zune has been able to capture 4 [...]