Posts from — November 2007

Android is the new mobile platform that Google has announced. Google has recently launched the Android Software development kit that will allow developers to make applications for Android.

What will the developer get in return? Money. Google has announced an Android Developer Challenge I and II that will shortlist 50 most promising applications and they shall cumulatively win $10 million worth money.

More and more casual games sites are looking into advertising as the form of revenue.

SHOCKWAVE.COM
Traffic to free, ad-suported games: 90 percent
Revenue from advertising: 60-65 percent

WILDTANGENT
Traffic to free, ad-supported games: 98 percent
Revenue from advertising: 50 percent

Mozilla foundation owns assets around $70 million. In 2006, the revenues came to about $66 million. Of this $66 million, 85 percent has come from Google. Google pays Mozilla for every search from the Firefox Google search toolbar that converts to revenue.

Money sourced back as grants to Open-Source projects: $300,000
Mozilla foundation CEO earns $500,000 annually.

According to the IBM 2007 Digital Consumer Study, over 45 percent respondents from USA visit Social networks while only 30 percent of them visit other websites with User Generated content. Compare this with 35 percent and 30 percent respectively for Social networks and UGC sites for the Australians.

It used to be less. But now YouTube allows upto 1GB (one gigabyte) long videos.

How many videos can I upload at a time?
Till now, it was just one. But now, YouTube lets you download a software to your hard drive using which you may upload multiple videos at the same time.

Green computing is an initiative taken by Google to make computers more environment friendly. There are a few upfront costs to using a green computer, but it is more environment friendly.

Kansas and Minnesota governors have signed up to this initiative. These green computers cost $30 extra but are expected to reduce energy consumed by 50 percent.

Minnesota has purchased 4000 green computers and Kansas 5000

American Broadband market is slowing down. In fact, they are falling. Taking into account the four regional players alone -

Embarq
Citizens
CenturyTel
WindStream

the market of these four cumulatively fell 13,7% in the third quarter. Overall market fell by 22%.

The top 5 advertisers on Internet, according to Media Value’s list of 50 top advertisers on Internet:

LendingTree
E-Trade Financial
Privacy Matters Services
LowerMyBills.com
Classmates Online

Yes, quite a few alternatives are available on the internet that will let you do most of the tasks that you use Photoshop for, and they are free too. But, Adobe is expected to bring an online edition of Photoshop called the Photoshop express online by 2008.

The Gay, lesbian. Bisexual and Transgender market is grouped as “GLBT”.

GLBT market in US: 15 million
Purchasing Power of GLBT: $660 billion
American GLBT adult users in 2007: 12.1 million
This is 7.9% of the total American internet population
Projected population of Gay lesbian Bisexual and Transgender population in 2011: 14 million