By Ian, on March 3rd, 2010 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. Continue reading Mobile Data Points By Ian, on March 1st, 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 Continue reading Lies, Damned Lies and Twitter Usage Statistics By Ian, on January 27th, 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 Continue reading Growth of Social Networks (or Not) By Ian, on January 9th, 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 Continue reading Old Dogs; New Tricks By Ian, on November 10th, 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 Continue reading MySpace: The Beast of Santa Monica By Ian, on September 25th, 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†Continue reading 2020 Internet Vision | About this BlogSocial tools, devices and web evolution are creating epochal change in media, society and business. The plan is to hide under the floorboards till it’s all over document some of the interesting parts of that change. More…. |
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