Facebook Growth By Age Group: Share of College-Age Users is Declining (23)
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With the U.S. now accounting for only about a third of all Facebook users, we are starting to see a gradual shift away from its original demographic of college-age users (18-25): 46% of all users are 18-25 years old, down from 51% in late May. The number of users in the 18-25 segment is growing, but at a slower pace than the other age groups. Among the major Facebook age segments, the fastest growing are ...
When Micro-blogging Grows Up (1)
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Will Twitter and other micro-blogging services start resembling the blogosphere down the road? We are in the early days of micro-blogs and I still remember when Twitter was used mainly for "status" reporting. But more people are using Twitter instead of blogs, following links from trusted sources essentially using Twitter as a highly filtered blog reader. Just like the early days of blogs, the most popular Twitters are heavy on technology and "personal" micro-blogging. On ...
The U.S. iTunes App Store (18)
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With the iTunes App store now over a month old, I decided to look closely at data from the U.S. store over the last three weeks. While sales numbers are not publicly available, Apple publishes overall as well as category-level rankings. There are currently just over 1,800 (paid and free) applications in the App store, double what it was three weeks ago. Games is the largest category with about 500 applications (roughly 27% of all ...
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jasonb said:
"The fastest-growing category, Education, more than tripled over the last three weeks."i wonder if spicy can be pushed this way?
Developer Interest in the iPhone, Android, and Symbian (2)
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With several hundred applications now available in the iTunes App store, I decided to consider alternate ways of gauging interest in the platform. Using MarkMail, one can quickly scan thousands of mailing lists and restrict the results to those related to software development. Based on the number of posts to (MarkMail) mailing lists, Linux-based alternatives generate considerably more email chatter than the iPhone: Staying with the previous metric (posts to mailing lists), there does seem ...
Please Update Your Browser (1)
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A research study released last week measures the proportion of web users running the most updated and secure browsers. With drive-by-downloads increasingly popular with malware distributors, web surfing with an older version of a browser is getting riskier. The study is based on data from Google's search and web application server logs over an 18 month period (Jan-07 to Jun-08), with browser versions lifted from the HTTP USER-AGENT header field found in the server logs. ...
On Friends, Followers, and the Top Twitter Users (2)
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An easy way to increase Twitter's signal-to-noise ratio is to follow less people. I'm sure you've heard of Twitter users who follow several thousand twitterers. How they keep up with that many micro-blogs is beyond me. Unfortunately, spammers have discovered that to increase their "following", they simply follow thousands of other users, a small percentage whom will politely start following them. Granted, number of followers is not as informative as the number of conversations a ...
Twitter Availability & Response Times: A Mixed Bag (1)
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From an all-time low of 76% registered on May 20th of this year, Pingdom.com’s uptime statistics for Twitter has slowly been increasing. Ideally, you want extended stretches of near 100% uptime, something that hasn’t occurred since mid April: Daily uptime has hovered around 98% over the last week. Sound impressive? To put things in perspective, 2% downtime means that twitter.com/home is unavailable for 115 minutes every 4 days. The leading social networking sites Myspace and ...
Macs in the Enterprise (1)
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In every O’Reilly conference and event I've been to, the number of Mac laptops is disproportionately high: I would say at least around a quarter (if not more) in most of our conferences. The most common answer I hear is that the Mac combines an elegant UI, a suite of useful software, and a Unix command line. O'Reilly does tilt towards the “alpha geek” crowd, but one wonders if mainstream companies are beginning to allow ...
