Mobile Data Points

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.

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Lies, Damned Lies and Twitter Usage Statistics

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

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Growth of Social Networks (or Not)

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

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Old Dogs; New Tricks

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

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MySpace: The Beast of Santa Monica

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

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2020 Internet Vision

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”

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