Posts under ‘Resources - Statistics + Studies’

Via Tech Crunch
by Erick Schonfeld on December 18, 2008
Facebook long ago passed MySpace in global visitors and time spent on the site, but now it appears to be gaining ground on Google.
A couple days ago, Facebook released some new statistics on user growth and engagement on the site. It now has more than [...]

Via Bogging Me Blogging You
By Ed Lee
On Monday, technology analyst house Forrester released a report that demonstrated consumer adoption of RSS had reached 11 per cent (versus almost 50 per cent of interactive marketers) and wonders:
“What’s holding RSS back?” (available to you for just $279.00)
The report, as blogged by Steve Rubel at Micropersuasion, included the [...]

Via Tech Crunch
by Michael Arrington on December 1, 2008
If you thought Randall Stross’ attack on Tesla yesterday was in poor taste, wait until you read what Michael Wolff has to say about MySpace. In a dinner interview with BusinessWeek columnist Jon Fine, Wolff says:
…if you’re on MySpace now, you’re a [expletive] cretin. And [...]

Via the New York Times
By ALEX MINDLIN
Published: November 30, 2008
Canadian Internet users are far more likely than Americans to use a social networking Web site, according to September figures released by the research firm comScore. That number is consistent with Canadians’ generally heavy use of sophisticated Internet features like online video. “We joke that it’s [...]

Via Tech Crunch
by Michael Arrington on November 30, 2008
Today’s the day that Facebook makes their big press push for their Facebook Connect service, which was first announced last May. The NY Times has a story giving a broad overview of Connect as well as competing services from MySpace (Data Availability) and Google (Friend [...]

Via Groundswell
by Josh Bernoff

Forrester’s Social Technographics surveys show that when
it comes to social content 21% of online US consumers are Creators, 37% are
Critics (those who react to content created by others), and 69% are Spectators.

The 90-9-1 principle, recently publicized by Community
Guy Jake McKee at 90-9-1.com, says that in a community, the rule of thumb [...]

Via Tech Crunch
by Erick Schonfeld on November 20, 2008

The Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers just released their quarterly report on U.S. online advertising revenues. For the quarter, they estimate online advertising revenues were almost $5.9 billion ($5.865 billion, to be exact), which is an 11 percent increase from the same quarter a year [...]

Via ARS Technica
By John Timmer | Published: November 20, 2008 - 08:55PM CT

There have been a steady stream of worries about the dangers that Internet use could pose to children, and many have dismissed these worries as overblown parental concern. The latest group to weigh in is the MacArthur Foundation, best known for handing out [...]

Via Parent Central.ca
Angela Pacienza
November 05, 2008
Today’s youth are plugged into the world in more ways than one, according to the author of a new book that explores the so-called Internet generation.
Don Tapscott says those weaned on the Internet - people born roughly between 1977 and 1997 - are more politically savvy, socially engaged and family-centred [...]

Via ARS Technica
By Jacqui Cheng | Published: November 17, 2008 - 11:53AM CT
No matter how into gadgets and hardware we are, we’re all forced to face a cold truth every once in a while: our PCs and gadgets sometimes break. What’s important, however, is how often it happens and how easy (or difficult, as the [...]