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Cloud Stats [Infographic] – 34% of Users Store Photos Online

November 30, 2010 By 1 Comment

Cool infographic designed by the Cloud Hypermarket team which shows some interesting stats about cloud computing, such as adoption, IT budgeting, benefits of using the cloud, and the top users of cloud computing. Check out the full graphic below, here are some highlights:

  • By 2013, 60% of the the server workloads will be virtualized
  • There are 50 million physical servers in the world today
  • 56% of Internet users use web mail: Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc…
  • 34% of users store photos online
  • 29% use applications such as Google docs
  • 7% store private videos online
  • 5% pay to store computer files online
  • 5% backup their hard drive to an online site


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Twitter Marketing Tips and Best Practices [Refresh]

November 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Last year we wrote a blog post titled: “Twitter Marketing Guide: Tips, Best Practices & More” and it quickly became one of our most popular posts of all time. As the growth of Twitter continues (as the chart below recognizes), we felt it was important to revisit that post and update it with some fresh sources of tips and best practices.


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Social Media Integration with SEO and PPC top Priority in 2011

November 25, 2010 By 1 Comment
According the latest eMarketer report, social media is at the top of US advertisers’ list in regards to both SEO and PPC strategies in 2011. Link Building programs and CMS processes round out the top 3 for SEO, while local search advertising and managing the impact of Google instance make the top 3 for PPC.

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The History of Social Media [Infographic]

November 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Cool infographic from the Skloog blog depicting the history of social media starting from the postal service in 550 BC to Google Buzz in 2010. Click on the graphic below for a larger version, but here are some highlights:
  • Friendster: 2002, still active with 90 million registered users and 60 million unique visitors a month
  • MySpace: 2003, has to innovate or will die a slow death
  • Flickr: 2004, 3.6 billion images housed by 2009
  • Care2: 2004, 14 million members in Health/Green Living/Animal Welfare
  • FriendFeed: 2007, acquired by Facebook in 2009

History of Social Media

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Ultimate Mobile Statistics Video: Growth of Mobile

November 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Very cool video designed by the Sybase featuring statistics around the growth of mobile. Here is just a few of the cool pieces of info you’ll find in this video:
  • First handheld phone was available in 1973 (over a foot long and weighed almost 2 pounds – priced at $3,995)
  • The world’s smallest phone is designed by Modu: 37mm wide and 72 mm long
  • In 2009 (Globally), there were 51 million cars, 210 million TVs and 1.2 Billion Phones sold
  • 19% of all phones sold are now smartphones
  • Children are more likely to own a phone than a book
  • Almost 60 million iPhones sold to date
  • 60 Android powered devices in 49 countries
  • 6.5 Trillion SMS sent by the end of 2010

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1 in 4 Page Views in the US took Place on Facebook.com

November 22, 2010 By 1 Comment

Very interesting post over at the Hitwise blog last week, which states that Facebook generates 1 out of every 4 pages views in the US. Here are some of the other highlights:

  • In March, they reported an important milestone when the market share of visits to Facebook.com surpassed Google.com (US traffic only and excludes mobile).
  • Since then, Hitwise has continued to watch the growth of Facebook.com, which increased 60% from the same week last year and represented 1 in 10 US Internet visits last week.
  • The amount of content consumption taking place on the popular social network has also grown substantially where nearly 1 in 4 page views in the US took place on Facebook.com for the week ending November 13, 2010.
  • The market share of page views for Facebook.com was 24.27% last week, 3.8x the volume of the 2nd ranked website YouTube.com with 6.93%.

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Scribd Stats – Google Analytics for Documents

November 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Scribd just announced they are releasing ‘Google Analytics’ for documents, called Scribd stats. Scribd stats is free to all publishers and provides numerous different metrics about engagement for documents. Here are some of the metrics you’ll find in the dashboards:
  • Trending for Reads, Readcasts, Embedded Reads, Followers and Following
  • Top Documents
  • Reads by Region
  • Referrals by Search Keywords / Sites
  • Reads by Embedded Source
  • Breakdown of Readcasts

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