Category Archives: The InfoStory Quant
Online Love
“More singles met the last person they dated through an online dating site (21%) than anywhere else. Across all age groups, seven times as many singles met their last date online, compared to being set up by a relative.”–Match.com’s second … Continue reading
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Highlights of ComScore’s Summary of 2011 in Information
From comScore’s just-released 2012 U.S. Digital Future in Focus Social: Social Networking accounted for 16.6 percent of all online minutes at the end of 2011 and is on track to surpass Portals as the most engaging online activity in 2012. … Continue reading
Pew on Why Microsoft Bought Skype
“…online phone calling has taken off as a quarter of American adult internet users (24%) have placed phone calls online. That amounts to 19% of all American adults. On any given day 5% of internet users are going online to … Continue reading
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Big Data and Borges
From the May 26 issue of the Economist: “In A short story called ‘On Exactitude in Science’, Jorge Luis Borges described an empire in which cartographers became so obsessive that they produced a map as big as the empire itself.
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Print Magazines Survive the Digital Tsunami?
The State of the Media Democracy Survey, Fifth Edition, from Deloitte, reports surprising finding regarding print magazines:
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InfoStory Quant: Information Wants to be Paid For
According to a new Pew Internet report, 65% of internet users have paid to access or download some kind of digital content. Music and software are the most common kinds of content purchased. A typical user pays about $10 per … Continue reading
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The InfoStory Quant: Mobile Politics
More than a quarter of American adults – 26% – used their cell phones to learn about or participate in the 2010 mid-term election campaign. In a post-election nationwide survey of adults, the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life … Continue reading
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The InfoStory Quant: China, December 2010
* Internet population: 420 million * Mobile Internet population: 227 million * Broadband penetration of those online: 98.1% * Over half of China’s Internet users regularly blog and use social media * Only one in three Chinese consumers use business-to-consumer … Continue reading
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InfoStory Quant: 8% of online Americans use Twitter
In the first-ever survey from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project that exclusively examines Twitter users, it was found that 8% percent of the American adults who use the Internet are Twitter users. “It is an online … Continue reading
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Media Consumption in 2030: 2,570 exabytes
Chris Preist and Paul Shabajee, University of Bristol: “Assuming that the average westerner’s media consumption moves fully online but does not rise substantially beyond current levels, and the global middle class reach western levels of consumption, the researchers estimate the … Continue reading
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