To get a rough estimate of how the Internet is actually being used, the BBC charted the top 100 sites by unique users in January 2010. The data used to generate the interactive treemap visualisation were collected by the Nielsen company and covers the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Brazil, US and Australia. The
Check-out this video showing how the Internet is changing advertising. Epipheo Studios presents “How the Internet is Changing Advertising”, a short history of communication and how the internet is a new medium that has thrown out the old rules of communication. New technology demands a new way to communicate. The internet is built around people
A good reading in Nielsen Wire regarding Nominal Growth in Europe. This is based on FMCG products tracked by Nielsen, in Europe. As you can see on the chart here-below, Nominal growth has remained stable around 3% for four consecutive quarters. The fourth quarter of 2009 has shown nominal growth at 2.9%, once again outperforming
Today, we are all using services which are in the cloud. But what does it mean ? Steve Ballmer discussed, last week with students from Washington Universities, what’s ahead for computing, with a focus on how cloud computing that will change the way people and businesses use technology. To know more on this, just click HERE
BBC News has a very cool interactive chart. This chart shows how Internet had grown from 1998 to 2008 in various parts of the world. In 1998, the only countries with significant Internet usage were USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark and Sweden. You can see how quickly Western Europe adopted the
Very good reading from Chris Brogan. Just click HERE to take a look at the original article. I will take some inspiration and will come back with the things / tips that have been the most efficient for me BLOG.
Cool video, posted by Jesse Thomas, on State of the Internet. This video highlights some remarkable figures and visually depicts the Internet as we know it today. This is amazing to see how fast it moves and how immersed web technologies have become in our everyday lives. There are 1.73 billion Internet users worldwide as of
The Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance combines the complementary strengths of Yahoo! and Microsoft to create a competitive choice in search with the scale to fuel sustained development. Both companies aim to ultimately enable searchers to find relevant results faster, and provide more value for advertisers and better results for web publishers. If you look
This Wednesday, Microsoft issued beta software that brings social-network information into Outlook. The product, called Outlook Social Connector, has been available in the Office 2010 beta. Go to Outlook Social Connector download site and you will discover that the new version works with Outlook 2003 and 2007 and connects with social-network partners, which wasn’t the case
Facebook was launched on February 4, 2004. Facebook has undoubtedly become the world’s largest social network, with over 400 million users worldwide and more than 900 employees. Let’s take a closer look at what kinds of numbers and user activity this growth translates to. The infographic here-above explores Facebook’s growth over the past 6 years.
The Conversation Prism by Brian Solis and Jesse Thomas Wondering how Facebook, flickr, YouTube, wordress or other social media fit with your marketing strategy? It’s all about conversation. Brian and Jesse had nicely illustrated the different elements of the great social conversation stream. I really like the term ‘The Conversation’. Indeed, there is one global conversation stream
Today, at the occasion of the European Safer Internet Day, I’ve taken part to an Employee Volunteering action together with my Belgian colleagues. If you want to know more about this nitiative, just click HERE I’ve visited the school of my kids. By the way, this was also my school 🙂 This was a great opportunity to explain
Take a look at these numbers. This is really amazing ! This is clear, the world is changing fast. 90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009. 247 billion – Average number of email messages per day. 81% – The percentage of emails that were spam. 234 million – The
I’ve read a very interesting BLOG from Joe Wilcox after the relase of IPad. Look also at this video: Here-below, a short summary of the 12 reasons why he is not going to buy an iPad. To be honest, this list makes sense. I also agree with Samuel Axon, who writes at Mashable: “The iPad