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The Internet worldwide

 

The Internet is considered so important that access is a legal right in countries like Finland, Spain and Estonia. Countries like Egypt and Turkmenistan on the contrary are Internet black-holes, as they are censoring it at a pervasive or substantial level. In terms of quality, all networks are not created equal.

 

Because of ever cheaper devices, the ability to access the Internet via cellphone networks and increasing broadband reach, the actual number of people online won't plateau for decades. But the net is still mature enough for the growth in adoption to begin slowing down soon.

In the last XXX seconds

 

New Internet users

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

out of 1.97 billion Internet users worldwide

New websites

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

out of 266 million websites worldwide

 

Internet mood poll

 
Today's feeling
  • Manic
  • It's a good day
  • Seen better
  • Sh*tty
 

New broadband mobile users

 
 

The race for Internet domination

 

Back in 2008 MySpace and Facebook were fighting it out neck to neck for the top spot in the global race to be the top social network. Facebook is now the clear winner, but smaller contenders like Foursquare are winning more users at a steady pace. Business-oriented social networking site LinkedIn emerges as the fourth largest.

 
 

Outside the Social Network race, websites like ubiquitous Google are collecting or generating an enormous amount of data.

Google

Google acccounts for 3 out of 5 searches in the US

Fastest rising Google searches for 2010

YouTube

35 hours of videos uploaded to YouTube every minute

All time most popular

Wikipedia

1.2 Million Editors editing 11 million articles per month

Twitter

119 million tweets per day

 

How we use the Internet

 

Social networking sites continues to gain momentum. They are so prevalent there is almost no escape from it; we spend a ridiculous amount of time on them.

How we spend time online

 

Time spent on Facebook

17 hours
and 33 minutes
per month

Videos watched on Facebook

2+
billion
per month

Time spent on Facebook

12.3%
of time
spent online

Content shared on Facebook

30
billion
per month

Time spent on YouTube

5 hours
and 50 minutes
per month

Videos watched on Youtube

2
billion
per day

Number of videos watched

186 per month
per average
Internet user

 

Generations Activities

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Gender Usage Differences

Twitter
67%
Male
 
67%
Female
 
 

Money and the Internet

 

Many social media sites are expected to launch public stock offerings this year including the professional-networking site LinkedIn and the discount service Groupon. The skyrocketing valuations in social media indicate where financial markets perceive growth and value in the Internet ecosystem these days.

Social Media Valuations

 

$ spent on E-Commerce

During the last XXX seconds

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Items sold on Amazon

During the last XXX seconds

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Internet Advertising