Internet 2010 in numbers- Royal.Pingdom.com did an interesting takeoff on the actual numbers and growth in 2010 of emails, Social media, number of websites, etc, etc. Email 107 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010. 294 billion – Average number of email messages per day. 1.88 billion – The number […]
November 11, 2010
From Inside Social Games, As you can see, Hollywood City and Vegas City just hit the charts. Both by Digital Chocolate, the creator of Millionaire City, you can expect to see these games continue to track well. Another interesting note- FarmVille hasn’t really grown much week over week (although it is the largest Facebook social […]
November 11, 2010
Here is a new report from CMR at UMass. Lots of good information on current trends in social media at the big companies. You can get a copy here. Interesting to note that although Blogging by F500 has appeared to level out year over year (1% growth; 23% have corporate Blogs), Facebook and Twitter have […]
November 8, 2010
Now this is interesting stuff to those of us that tuck away useless pieces of data and information. But it is kind of interesting to note these types of trends. Once you get 2 points on a data line, you have a trend and this is just one of many such tidbits that you could […]
November 8, 2010
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. NYT — Silicon Valley is awash in tales of the “PayPal Mafia,” the tight-knit group of PayPal alumni who have helped one another start and finance a crop of new companies. But William V. Campbell, who is something of a godfather figure in the Valley, said, in a rare interview, “There is […]
November 6, 2010
The Internet is the Internet whether accessed through wired or wireless portals- thats just one of the findings from Sandvine’s Fall 2010 global internet trends report. Once again, nothing really new here to report from an intuitive standpoint. However, from a relevant research POV, this is exciting stuff. Just one example- in North America we leave […]
November 4, 2010
(Games Beat) Social game maker Zynga said it’s launching games on Android-based mobile phones, beginning with Zynga Poker-which has about 36 million monthly and six million daily active users on Facebook. The company, which has become famous for its games on Facebook, recently launched games on Apple’s iPhone. Its support for Android is a vote […]
November 4, 2010
Not that this is especially enlightening, social media is a much more ‘me’ engagement than emails. What I do find interesting to note is that a lot of this activity is happening on a mobile device. The user experience and ease of usage of social sites on mobile has gotten much better over the past […]
November 4, 2010
Computerworld – If you were one of the many people hoping for a Facebook phone, sorry. That’s not happening. That was the first announcement from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the social network’s much anticipated mobile news conference yesterday at the company’s headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. “There’s been this rumor going around that Facebook […]
November 3, 2010
(eMarketer) The model of the young male early adopter seems to have fallen by the wayside with the rise of digital phenomena like social media, but according to research from Adobe Systems Inc., men were ahead in mobile. In a few content activities, women led. They were 10 percentage points more likely than men to access […]
January 19, 2011
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