Many thanks to mobile guru Tomi Ahonen, who was kind enough to forward me some extracts from his Almanac 2010. The Almanac collects together data about the mobile industry worldwide. If you aren’t already switched on to Tomi, I’d very much recommend anyone interested in this field to check out his publications and also the [...]
March 1, 2010
Twitter users come in two colours according to recent reports: over-sharing or silent. Last week, audience research company Nielsen released figures suggesting an enormous polarity between active and inactive members in the UK. The graph shows that 79% of time spent on the site comes from just 7% of its members: Only poor MySpace has a [...]
January 27, 2010
New data from Nielsen confirms what you probably already know. Traffic to and time spent on social networking sites has boomed over the last two years. As the charts below show, people across the world are spending around five-and-a-half hours per month on social networking sites compared to just over two hours at the end [...]
January 9, 2010
Pew Research Center reports that older people are almost as likely to embrace technological change as young people: …innovations in cell phones, email and online shopping are seen as changes for the better by most Americans with positive views reaching well beyond the youngest Millennial generation. These kinds of change are viewed at least as favorably [...]
November 10, 2006
The latest Hitwise Consumer Generated Media Report reveals that MySpace’s dominance over other social networks shows no signs of slowing down. MySpace has a market share of 81.92% among the social networks, with users spending over 30 minutes on the site in an average session. This is the second-longest session time in the survey, with [...]
September 25, 2006
Pew Internet & American Life Project has released its second Future of the Internet survey, with experts and pundits broadly agreeing that by 2020: A low-cost global network will be thriving and creating new opportunities in a “flattening†world. Humans will remain in charge of technology, even as more activity is automated and “smart agents†proliferate. However, [...]
August 15, 2006
This is the most interesting woman in the world. I need to clarify that (before the divorce papers are filed). This is the top result for the search term ‘woman’, ranked by interestingness, that I found in a search on flickr this afternoon. The picture was taken by the very talented Babeffe. What makes for interestingness on flickr? [...]
August 8, 2006
Some very big numbers in David Sifry’s new report about the statistics thrown up by the blog tracking service Technorati: Technorati is now tracking over 50 Million Blogs. The Blogosphere is over 100 times bigger than it was just 3 years ago. Today, the blogosphere is doubling in size every 200 days, or about once every 6 and [...]
March 3, 2010