Archive for November, 2008
Growth of Facebook Mobile Site
Facebook, the popular social networking site was available for users on the go at m.facebook.com and for those with smartphones on x.facebook.com. At the start of the year, the mobile site of Facebook had 5 million users. Now, this userbase has grown up to 15 million users. That is nearly a 200% growth from the [...]
Posted: November 12th, 2008 under Social Media.
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Are Blogs Influential?
How influential are blogs in helping the reader make a purchasing decision? Here is the percent of American bloggers who accepted to have been influenced to perform the following actions because of blogs they read: Decide on product or service : 21% Refine choices : 19% Get support and answers : 19% Discover product and [...]
Posted: November 11th, 2008 under Blogs.
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Popularity of Mobile Internet in China
Over 30 percent of China’s net users access the internet from their mobile phones. Mobile Phone subscriber base in China : 616 million Number of Internet Users : 275 million Percent of Broadband users : 85% Number of users accessing Internet from mobile : 84.5 million
Posted: November 10th, 2008 under internet.
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What Is A Smartphone Used For?
Smartphones are getting cheaper by the day. 18.9% of the American consumers now own a Smartphone while 49.2 percent intend to buy one within the next two years. And here is a list of features that they most require: Download/Look at maps for directions : 17.6% Searched internet for local info : 15.6% Searched internet [...]
Posted: November 10th, 2008 under Mobile Internet.
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American Ad Spending on Online Social Networks
Advertising Spending by American advertisers on online social networks from the year 2006 and projected till 2012: 2006 : $350 million 2007 : $920 million 2008 : $1430 million 2009 : $1815 million 2010 : $2085 million 2011 : $2360 million 2012 : $2610 million
Posted: November 10th, 2008 under Online Marketing.
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Which Mobile Advertising Platform Is the Best?
A survey among Bango content providers provided the following ranking for mobile advertising networks: 1. Google Adwords 2. Yahoo 3. Adultmoda/Admoda 4. Third Screen Media 5. JumpTap 6. Admob 7. MoJiva 8. Decktrade 9. GetMobile.com 10. Medio 11. mKhoj 12. ZestAdz 13. Itsmy.biz
Posted: November 9th, 2008 under Online Marketing.
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Countries With Maximum Number of Fibre Broadband Connections
Fiber LAN connections are the most popular ways to connect to the Internet in the Orient. Here is the rank of the top ten countries with fibre broadband connections. 1. Korea 2. Japan 3. Sweden 4. Denmark 5. Norway 6. Slovak Republic 7. United States 8. Czech Republic 9. Iceland 10. Italy
Posted: November 8th, 2008 under ISP.
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How Old Is Delicious?
Delicious.com or Del.icio.us (as it was when started) is five years old. Here are few tidbits of information about the company: Originally Del.icio.us (now, Delicious.com) Launched : November 1 2003 Acquired by Yahoo in December 2005 User base : 5.3 million users
Posted: November 7th, 2008 under Social Media.
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How Many SMS Sent Per Month in UK
6.5 Billion text messages are exchanged across UK every month. This is 60 million messages a DAY more than the figures last year. On a daily basis, Number of Text messages sent : 217 Million Number of Picture/Video messages sent : 1.5 million
Posted: November 3rd, 2008 under Mobile Internet.
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What If Internet Is No Longer Free?
If you were charged $2 a month for all the present day free content on the web, which one would you be most willing to pay? A Rubicon Consulting research on this topic gave the following ranking to websites on the basis which websites the respondents were most willing to pay to use. 1. Google [...]
Posted: November 3rd, 2008 under internet.
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