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July 22nd, 2011

Interesting facts on digital world and social media

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Written by: Balaji
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This is an interactive presentation that show the evolution of various social networks and evolution of Internet across the world. Startups particularly need to make note of the stats on ecommerce, the market trends in digital media and the right social network to utilize for a given demographic.

Interesting stuff from the presentation:

  • US women spend one of every 6 minutes in social networking sites
  • China’s QZone is among the largest social networks in the world with 500 million users.
  • 62% of Groupon users are women
  • Online dating is a $4 billion industry
  • 35 hours of video content is uploaded to Youtube every minute.
  • $1.2 million is spent in ecommerce sites every minute & about 5000 items are sold in Amazon every minute
  • Twitter was the 5th biggest network in the world till 2010, when it suddenly went over LinkedIn, MySpace and Friendster.
  • Wikipedia has 1.2 million editors working on 11 million documents every month

 

State of the Internet 2011
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Balaji
+Balaji heads a consultancy firm - Agni Innovation Labs - that helps small businesses, law firms and political campaigners launch their brand successfully. The services include blogging, press releases, social media strategy development and email campaigning. Contact the author: balaji [at] theagni [dot] com for more details.