Country With The Best Broadband Connectivity

Taiwan by all means. Except for Haucha village which is damaged due to Typhoon, the whole country has now access to high speed internet connectivity. Taiwan has 4.6 million broadband subscribers.

Facebook vs. MySpace

Which of the two is doing better?

Facebook
Opened to all in September 2006. Traffic multiplied six times over since then.
Current user base : 59 million
Projected growth to mid-2008 : 100 million

MySpace
Acquired by NewsCorp for $650 million in 2005, MySpace is now worth over $2.4 billion
Claims 58 percent of the total advertising market in the Social networks arena at $525 million

How Digg and Reddit fared in 2007

Digg and Reddit are two most popular social news aggregation websites.

Digg

Received 11 million page views in November 2006 and this had increased by 318 percent to 46 million by November 2007

Reddit

Received 2 million page views in February 2007 and this had increased to 16 million by October 2007

How AOL Netscape social voting system fared

Comscore reports a very dismal picture. Netscape.com was launched as a social voting alternative to Digg in mid 2006. Here is the traffic at different points in time through 2006-2007
Launched : June 2006
November ‘06 : 305 million page views per month
August ‘07 : 137 million page views per month
November ‘07 : 38 million page views per month

The social voting system was relaunched at Propeller.com. Traffic at Propeller for November 2007 was 13 million page views.

Google traffic growth in 2007

The traffic is still as much growing as it had been all along. Overall growth has been 22.42 percent.

Gainers
iGoogle : 267.64%
Book search : 54.66%
Gmail : 53.6%
Maps : 51.57%

Losers
Product Search : -73.26%
Scholar : -32.14%
Video Search : -11.82%

Web Customers most satisfied with Retail Firms

Retail firms topped the rankings for customer respect index, measured to see the customer service levels on the web. Overstock.com was ranked Number 1. Now why retail?

83% of customers feel they received a helpful response for their inquiries (Industry average : 60%)
65% of email inquiries were responded within a day (Industry average : 57%)
21% felt the Online Chat service was a nice option (Industry average : 12%)

Fastest growing websites in France

Here is the list of the fastest growing websites in France for November. Social networking on top, as usual. Growth percent shown adjacent to the website name.

Facebook 83%
Arcandor AG 42%
Sony Online 40%
Oldiblog 28%
Fotovista 27%
Spill group 27%
Wordpress 16%
Amazon 16%
Kingfisher 15%
Groupe Priceminister 13%

Revenue loss from Phishing - 2007

That’s a mammoth $3.2 Billion!!

Number of victims in 2007 : 3.6 million
Average loss per incident : $886
Most spoofed portals : Paypal and eBay

Top 10 Email Spam Lists for 2007

As the American Presidential elections draw near, the number of spams related to politics is likely to increase. And that’s for 2008.

For 2007, here is the top ten list for Spams:

1. Penny stocks spam
2. Drug spam
3. Pornography
4. Replica watches
5. Loans
6. Phishing spam
7. Pirated software
8. Fake job ads
9. Dating site spam
10. Fake diplomas

Ad spending: Europe vs. USA

Here is a head to head comparison of the European and American markets:

2006
Europe : €8 billion
US : €12.8 billion
Difference : €4.8 billion

2007
Europe : €11.5 billion
US : €13.6 billion
Difference : €2.1 billion