How Much Have Social Network Servers Failed in 2008

It has only been two months into the new year. An early peek into the server downtimes at the various social networking websites:

Bebo - 12 hours 28 minutes
Windows Live Spaces - 7 hours 25 minutes
Friendster - 6 hours
Hi5 - 5 hours 5 minutes
Reunoin - 2 hours 55 minutes
LinkedIn - 4 hours
Classmates - 2 hours 5 minutes
Facebook - 1 hour 35 minutes
Orkut - 1 hour 10 minutes
Last.Fm - 1 hour 10 minutes
Xanga - 45 minutes
MySpace - 25 minutes
LiveJournal - 10 minutes
Yahoo 360 - 5 minutes

Electronic Prescriptions to Save US $29 Billion in Ten Years

Health expenses in US are increasing exponentially to reach 20 percent of all expenses made by 2018. That is, health expenses would constitute $1 out of every $5 spent in US by 2018. To reduce costs, lawmakers and executives are urging doctors to cut down costs and save money by providing online prescriptions.

If this goes well, Electronic prescriptions can well save over $29 billion in a ten year period.

Growth of Health-Related Websites on the Internet

Health related websites are growing by leaps and bounds.

In 2005,
There were 1047 sites reaching 0.3% of the internet population

By January 2008,
There are 2070 health related information sites reaching 0.5% of the internet population

Hottest Dating Site in the Valentine Week

The traffic Year-on-Year for this past week prior to Valentine’s day has increased by 26 percent. The top American dating website for this past week and their share of all visits are

1. Singlesnet - 14%
2. Plentyoffish - 11%
3. eHarmoney - 6%
4. True - 6%

Presence of Online Pharma Marketing Opportunity

A significant population of the physician population has begun to engage in the online social media thus initiating a new marketing opportunity online for the pharma industry. According to the study, among the physician community connected to the internet, over 63 percent were engaged in the various pharma sponsored marketing programs including online detailing, compared to 53 percent of the unconnected physician population.

The study also found that nearly 66 percent of the connected physicians forwarded useful content they found on the internet to their colleagues while 58 percent of them recommended specific websites to their patients.

Growth of Open Source Usage in Workplaces

Businesses have been using 94 different open source tools to do their jobs at reduced costs. The growth of open source usage at business work places has grown by 26 percent in just one year. The top 3 licenses are

1. Apache - 62%
2. GPL - 27%
BSD, Perl, CPL, Eclipse, MPL each are used by 4% of the packages.

Growth of US Podcast Audience

The American Podcast audience grew by over 285% last year to 18.5 million listeners. This number shall continue its dramatic rise to reach 65 million listeners by 2012. However the gap between active listeners (those who download one or more podcast per week) and the total audience shall continue to grow wide. The projected number of active podcast audience for 2007 and the coming years are:

2007 : 6.5 million
2008 : 10 million
2009 : 14 million
2010 : 17.5 million
2011 : 21.5 million
2012 : 25 million

Are You Looking for an European Job?

In the last quarter of 2007, nearly 54 million Europeans visited a career related website. The top 5 websites to have been visited are

1. Monster
2. StepStone
3. ANPE
4. Bundesagentur für Arbeit
5. JOBCENTREPLUS.GOV.UK

Readership of American Newspaper Websites

The online audience for the US Newspapers grew by over 6 percent in 2007.

Traffic for US Newspaper websites in 2006 : 56.4 million
Traffic for US Newspaper websites in 2007 : 60 million

Top Facebook Applications

Entertainment seems to be the craze with the majority of Facebook users. The most popular Facebook apps are

1. Top Friends (Slide)
2. Movies (Flixster)
3. Superpoke (Slide)
4. Compare People
5. iLike
6. Superwall (RockYou)
7. Likeness (RockYou)
8. Quizzes
9. Funwall (Slide)
10. Graffiti