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Get app? Getjar
You might be surprised to hear that the second biggest app store after Apple’s App Store is in fact, Getjar, a cross-platform aggregator of apps. It has over 50k apps on offer across 97% of phones and has had close to 1bn downloads of free and paid apps. It benefits from confusion over app availability … Continue reading
Facebook at home
Facebook is fast catching Yahoo and Google as US web users’ home on the web, having already overtaken MySpace and Microsoft in the past year. It has doubled in the past 6 months to nearly 30 billion total minutes usage, against Yahoo’s 40bn and Google’s just over 35bn. And why? Mobile access is certainly a … Continue reading
Social media statistics growth
Nielsen claims that the time spent on social media sites rose 82% in 2009 across the US, UK, Australia, Brazil, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain and Italy, with consumers spending more than five and half hours on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in December 2009. Facebook accounted for an impressive 67% of social … Continue reading
Top 10 posts of 2008
In a sudden rush of originality and inspiration, I’m going to share surely the first ever list of 2008′s most popular posts! 10. Gearing up for something more useful The awful pun in the title didn’t stop the traffic as this look back at Google Gears’ first year scraped into the top 10. 9. Google … Continue reading
A trillion channels and nothing on?
Amid what Google describes as a potentially infinite web, the search engine has identified a landmark trillion meaningful URLs (unique URLs). This is quite some figure when you consider that they passed the billion mark only back in 2000. The mind-boggling figure illustrates the challenge for search engines in trying to judge value among so … Continue reading
Quality, not quantity of social networking stats
A recent post seems to have struck a chord with Google with ‘Lies, damn lies and social networking statistics‘ currently among the top few positions on Google in a number of markets for the search term social networking statistics. As an update, Wired claimed in March 2008 that MySpace had an average growth rate of … Continue reading
Lies, damn lies and social networking statistics
Meaningful and detailed social networking statistics can prove elusive, certainly on the open net, so all the better to see a good summary of data from Facebook, MySpace and the lower profile Reunion on Jeremiah’s Web Strategy blog. Perhaps the most interesting in the post is the Forrester prediction that Facebook will overtake MySpace in … Continue reading
What’s hot?
Here‘s a chart based on threads on LinkedIn and VentureBeat that shows the hottest startups of Silicon Valley. The usual suspects are represented and a few besides. Worth a look.
From page views to old news
Interesting post from Micropersuasion adding to the growing questioning of page views as a meaningful metric. Given the growth in technologies, such as Ajax and even humble old Flash, which allow users to interact with page content without refreshing the page, the page view was already on questionnable ground – not that the industry could agree … Continue reading
Mashing up the ’1% rule’
A recent Nielsen Useit column seems to confirm that the ’1% rule’ is alive and well. He states that: In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action. Although the percentages differ the numbers are echoed in … Continue reading
