Archive for February, 2009
Most User Friendly Website in India
Quite a few prominent names missing from the survey of the “most popular” Indian websites. But among the websites considered for survey, here are the most user friendly websites Shopping Shaadi Yatra HSBC JobStreet EBay SpiceJet Travelguru SimplyMarry Citibank Reliance Samsung
Posted: February 27th, 2009 under Miscellaneous.
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PlayStation Network Member Base Vs. Xbox Live Subscriber Base
Sony PlayStation is focusing at its online service PlayStation Network to increase its sales. Here are the membership of PlayStation Network as compared to Microsoft Xbox Live Number of PS consoles sold : 21 million Number of PSN members : 20 million (95% of total console owners) Number of Xbox consoles sold : 27.93 million [...]
Posted: February 26th, 2009 under Gaming.
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Semiconductor Chips Sales Projection for 2009
It is a very uncertain market and projections have consistently been revised. Here are the 2009 sales projections that have been made (and revised) by Gartner since November 2008: November 2008 : 1% growth December 2008 : 16% drop January 2009 : 24% drop Projected worst case scenario : 33% drop in sales compared to [...]
Posted: February 26th, 2009 under Gadgets.
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Most Popular Social Network in Spain
No Facebook, no MySpace on top. Here is the list of the top ten social networks for Spanish visitors 1. Tuenti 2. Facebook 3. Fotolog 4. Hi5 5. Metroflog 6. Sonico 7. MySpace 8. Badoo 9. Netlog 10. Skyrock
Posted: February 25th, 2009 under Social Media.
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Most Popular Social Network in India
Here is the list of the top ten social networks in India in terms of the number of unique visitors for December 2008: 1. Orkut : 12.8 million 2. Facebook : 4 million 3. Bharatstudent : 3.2 million 4. Hi5 : 2 million 5. Ibibo : 0.99 million 6. MySpace : 0.74 million 7. LinkedIn [...]
Posted: February 20th, 2009 under Social Media.
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Distribution of American User Generated Content Creators Based on Content Type
User generated content is growing all the time. USA alone had 82.5 million user generated content creators in 2008. This number is projected to grow to 114.5 million by 2013. The distribution of these content creators based on the content type is User generated video : 15.4 million Social networking : 71.3 million Blogs : [...]
Posted: February 20th, 2009 under Social Media.
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Recession Effect On Number Of Jobs Posted Online
There are 1.13 million lesser job requirements posted online in US for January 2009 compared to November 2008 taking the total number of job ads posted online to 3.355 million. However, job demand is increasing with over 10.75 million unemployed and looking for work. However, two American states still have more job vacancies posted online [...]
Posted: February 16th, 2009 under Miscellaneous.
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Contribution of Search Engines to Online Travel Portal Traffic
A high 35.58% of traffic to online travel portals came from search engines. The leader among them was, not surprisingly, Google. Here is the contribution of the top search engines to the online travel portals (in percent terms) Google : 27.09% Yahoo : 4.99% MSN : 1.51% Ask : 0.61% Live : 0.37%
Posted: February 16th, 2009 under Miscellaneous.
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Twitter User Age Demographics
Twitter users, as you might have guessed comprise of the young, urban and mobile generation. Here is the age-wise distribution of Twitter users: 18-24 : 19% 25-34 : 20% 35-44 : 10% 45-54 : 5% 55-64 : 4% 65 and older : 2%
Posted: February 13th, 2009 under Social Media.
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WiFi Usage Across States in USA
The data provided may not be accurate but can give a rough indication of the Wifi usage spread across the different states in the United States, as reported by the mobile advertising network, AdMob. Here is the percent distribution among the top Wi-fi users: California : 18% New York : 14% Texas : 8% Pennsylvania [...]
Posted: February 12th, 2009 under Mobile Internet.
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