Archive for December, 2008
How Fast Is Twitter Growing?
Number of Twitter users : 4-5 million Daily New Registrations : 5000-10000 Percent users who are unengaged : 30% Percent users with no photo : 38% Percent users with 0-5 followers : 22% Percent users following zero others : 9% PS : Twitter will take 37 years to catch up to the current user figures [...]
Posted: December 24th, 2008 under Social Media.
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Most Popular Social Networks On Mobile
The list released by Opera lists Facebook above MySpace for the first time! The ranking is as follows: 1. Facebook 2. MySpace 3. Friendster 4. My Opera 5. Orkut 6. Mocospace 7. Peperonity 8. Hi5
Posted: December 24th, 2008 under Social Media.
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Number of Telephone and Internet Users in China
China is approaching the One Billion mark in the number of telephone subscribers. As of October end, Total number of telephone users : 979 million Number of cellphone users : 677 million Number of landlines : 352 million Number of Internet users : 300 million Data Services (including SMS and broadband services) contributes to 33.4% [...]
Posted: December 22nd, 2008 under Communication.
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Growth Of Mobile Social Networking
A report studying the growth of social networking through mobile phones will reach 800 million users by 2012. Here is the projected number of users through the various years and the percentage of mobile subscriber base they represent (in brackets) 2007 : 82 million (2.7%) 2008 : 147 million (4.3%) 2009 : 243 million (6.6%) [...]
Posted: December 22nd, 2008 under Mobile Internet.
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Most Trusted Technology Companies in USA
eBay has won over AOL in the list of the most trusted companies for privacy in the US. Google was at number 10 in 2007, and is now off the top 20 list. Here are the list of technology companies that made it to the top 10 in 2007 and 2008: 2007 3. IBM 4. [...]
Posted: December 21st, 2008 under Miscellaneous.
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Time Spent on Internet – User Engagement on Facebook Vs. Google
Facebook is increasingly engaging the users more compared to Google. Here are a few crunchies on what users on Facebook are upto: Average friends per user : 100 Time spent on Facebook each day : 2.6 billion minutes Number of users changing their status at least once a day : 13 million Number of photos [...]
Posted: December 21st, 2008 under internet.
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How Much Money Does Digg.com Make?
Digg gets 22.6 million unique visitors every month. 2007 Revenues Revenues : $4.8 million Loss : $2.8 million 2008 Revenues (First three quarters) Revenues : $6.4 million Loss : $4 million Operational Costs : $14 million annually
Posted: December 21st, 2008 under Social Media.
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Most Popular Gadgets For Christmas in Europe
What are the top five most searched gadgets during the Christmas season? Nintendo tops the list in Britain, Germany and France! TOP FIVE GADGETS IN UNITED KINGDOM 1. Nintendo Wii 2. iPod 3. Xbox 360 4. iPhone 5. Sony Playstation 3 TOP FIVE GADGETS IN GERMANY 1. Nintendo Wii 2. iPod 3. iPhone 4. Xbox [...]
Posted: December 19th, 2008 under Gadgets.
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Landline Vs. Cellphone in USA
It is a no brainer that landline telephones are losing popularity over cellphones. Here are a few crunchies: 17.5 percent of households now solely depend on cellphones for communication (up from 13.6 percent last year) 13.3 percent of households receive almost all calls on their cellphones only despite owning a landline 85 percent of America [...]
Posted: December 19th, 2008 under Mobile Internet.
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Credibility of Blogs As Information Source
How trustworthy are blogs perceived? An exhaustive global survey provides a dismal picture of blogs as a trustworthy news medium. Here are the percent respondents in some countries of those trusted blogs over other medium for information: Global : 10% Norway : 5% Netherlands : 5% Sweden : 5% Germany : 5% USA : 9% [...]
Posted: December 16th, 2008 under Blogs.
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