Posts from — February 2009

Quite a few prominent names missing from the survey of the “most popular” Indian websites. But among the websites considered for survey, here are the most user friendly websites

Shopping
Shaadi
Yatra
HSBC
JobStreet
EBay
SpiceJet
Travelguru
SimplyMarry
Citibank
Reliance
Samsung

Sony PlayStation is focusing at its online service PlayStation Network to increase its sales. Here are the membership of PlayStation Network as compared to Microsoft Xbox Live

Number of PS consoles sold : 21 million
Number of PSN members : 20 million (95% of total console owners)

Number of Xbox consoles sold : 27.93 million
Number of Xbox Live : 18.5 million (66% of total console owners)

It is a very uncertain market and projections have consistently been revised. Here are the 2009 sales projections that have been made (and revised) by Gartner since November 2008:

November 2008 : 1% growth
December 2008 : 16% drop
January 2009 : 24% drop

Projected worst case scenario : 33% drop in sales compared to 2008

No Facebook, no MySpace on top. Here is the list of the top ten social networks for Spanish visitors

1. Tuenti
2. Facebook
3. Fotolog
4. Hi5
5. Metroflog
6. Sonico
7. MySpace
8. Badoo
9. Netlog
10. Skyrock

Here is the list of the top ten social networks in India in terms of the number of unique visitors for December 2008:

1. Orkut : 12.8 million
2. Facebook : 4 million
3. Bharatstudent : 3.2 million
4. Hi5 : 2 million
5. Ibibo : 0.99 million
6. MySpace : 0.74 million
7. LinkedIn : 0.51 million
8. Perfspot : 0.43 million
9. Bigadda : 0.38 million
10. Fropper : 0.24 million

User generated content is growing all the time. USA alone had 82.5 million user generated content creators in 2008. This number is projected to grow to 114.5 million by 2013. The distribution of these content creators based on the content type is

User generated video : 15.4 million
Social networking : 71.3 million
Blogs : 21.2 million
Virtual world : 11.6 million

There are 1.13 million lesser job requirements posted online in US for January 2009 compared to November 2008 taking the total number of job ads posted online to 3.355 million. However, job demand is increasing with over 10.75 million unemployed and looking for work.

However, two American states still have more job vacancies posted online than the number of unemployed. These are North Dakota and Wyoming.

A high 35.58% of traffic to online travel portals came from search engines. The leader among them was, not surprisingly, Google.

Here is the contribution of the top search engines to the online travel portals (in percent terms)

Google : 27.09%
Yahoo : 4.99%
MSN : 1.51%
Ask : 0.61%
Live : 0.37%

Twitter users, as you might have guessed comprise of the young, urban and mobile generation. Here is the age-wise distribution of Twitter users:

18-24 : 19%
25-34 : 20%
35-44 : 10%
45-54 : 5%
55-64 : 4%
65 and older : 2%

The data provided may not be accurate but can give a rough indication of the Wifi usage spread across the different states in the United States, as reported by the mobile advertising network, AdMob. Here is the percent distribution among the top Wi-fi users:

California : 18%
New York : 14%
Texas : 8%
Pennsylvania : 6%
Florida : 6%
Illinois : 4%
Maryland : 4%
Ohio : 3%
Massachusetts : 3%
Michigan : 3%