The Research Issue
Here's Sunday's copy of Friday's mail, for those who missed it.
This week, lets look at some facts and figures floating around the Blogosphere.
Stats
27% of the US internet population reads blogs
16MM peak simultaneous IM users on Tencent
in China.
54MM registered Skype users (25 months after launch)
54% (and rising) of all US online usage is comprised of email, chat, IM & VoIP
10% of Yahoo IM sessions end in a phone call
5MM radio listeners listened to a Podcast in 2005 (forecast to double in 06 and 07)
6MM Americans (2% of US adults and 5% of teens) use RSS
Googles power draw is comparable to a small city (35,00050,000 homes)
Heat: You could probably cook a turkey on an IBM BladeCenter rack
Internet Trends
Mary Meeker, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
Market perspective and a ton of interesting numbers.
The state of the blogosphere, 2005
David Sifry, Founder and CEO, Technorati, Inc.
Simply. Incredible. Growth.
Peel back Web 2.0, and what do you find?
Tom Barton, President and CEO, Rackable Systems
Servers, storage, and a hell of a lot of heat. Tom takes us on a tour of the place where the metal meets the web.
Believe It or Not
Hossein Eslambolchi, President of AT&T's Global Networking Technology Services, CTO & CIO
The CTO of the walled garden giant AT&T says the future is open. Hmmmm ...
Launch Pad
Presentations from 6 of the companies who launched their products at Web 2.0 Conference. Dont miss Allpeers. Remember that name.
RealTravel, Ken Leeder
Zvents, Ethan Stock
KnowNow, Ron Rasmussen
Orb, Ian McCarthy
Wink, Michael Tanne
Allpeers, Matthew Gertner
User Interface
John Kish, CEO, Wyse :: Where is the next billion-person market for the personal computer? And what might that computer look like?
Who's Listening to Podcasts?
eMarketer :: While many people still haven't heard of podcasting, many others can't wait to hear more. There is little argument - perhaps with the exception of VoIP - that podcasting was the breakout Internet phenomenon of 2005. It changed the listening habits of millions of consumers and affected the way radio and to an extent, television broadcasters communicated to their audiences.
In other news ...
"We propose that despite the fact that meetings may help to achieve work-related goals, having too many meetings and spending too much time in meetings per day may have negative effects on the individual."
Zork revisited: A Text Misadventure
Must-read: Marketing in the post-Cluetrain era
Bloggers love: Jack Houghton
Have a great weekend,
~G~
Sunday, January 22, 2006
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