Posts from — April 2008

China is now tied with United States for the top spot. The number of web users from both the countries now stands at 221 million. China’s web user base has grown 61 percent since the start of 2007 when the number stood at 137 million. The current internet penetration level in China is 16%, 3 percent below the world average of 19%.

In 2007, approximately 5000 infected web pages were detected on an average in a day. This quarter, this number has soared to around 15,000 per day. That is one web page every five seconds. 79 percent of the infected web pages are hosted on legitimate websites.

In 30 years, SeaGate became the first manufacturer to ship One Billion hard drives. The first SeaGate hard drive made in 1979 could store 5 MB of data. Since then, SeaGate has manufactured 79 Terabytes worth of hard drives. The company plans to double the number to 2 billion in another five years.

Pharma is one of the most profitable segments online. Here is the online spending on advertisements from Pharma companies (The stipulations to advertise are quite stringent on these companies)

2006 : $820 million
2007 : $975 million
2008 : $1190 million
2009 : $1530 million
2010 : $1950 million
2011 : $2200 million

Businesses are using more and more Web 2.0 in their enterprise. This includes spending on Social Networking, RSS, blogs, mashups, wikis, podcasting, etc. Forrester estimates that the growth shall be 43 percent Year on Year with the spending reaching $4.6 billion by 2013.

More and more marketers are resorting to unusual methods of marketing online according to a survey:

Word of mouth : 49%
Blogs : 49%
Social Networking : 49%

The projected list of mobile banking users in the US from 2007 to 2012:

2007 : 1.1 million
2008 : 4.6 million
2009 : 10.4 million
2010 : 18.7 million
2011 : 29 million
2012 : 40.9 million

With the current Internet Infrastructure, the internet is expected to reach its full capacity by 2010. Today, videos account for 30 percent of internet traffic. By 2010, they will account for 80 percent of all traffic. Also, High-Definition video will become the order of the day, and HD Videos are seven to ten times more bandwidth-hungry.

For the first three months of 2008, 92.3 percent of all email sent globally was spam! In this time period, 23,300 web pages related to spam were created every day. USA and Russia are the top two spammers in the world. Russia’s contribution has doubled in this time period. Turkey now contributes to 5.9 percent of all spam.

If you have used Orkut, MySpace, Facebook or blog or edit Wikipedia, then you are contributing to the User Generated Content on the internet. So, how many people like you are out there? For USA,

2007 : 77 million
2008 : 83 million
2009 : 89 million
2010 : 96 million
2011 : 102 million
2012 : 108 million