The size of Facebook’s active user base is…
- 38% of the entire current Internet population
- 87% of the Internet population of Asia
- 168% of the Internet population of Europe
- 294% of the Internet population of North America
- 370% of the Internet population of Latin America
- 674% of the Internet population of Africa
- 1,167% of the Internet population of the Middle East
- 3,757% of the Internet population of Oceania / Australia
I don't think traditional publishers are too happy about that...
Hat tip: Bradford Saron, http://twitter.com/bradfordgs/status/108277311119433728
while the proportion of high school students who had taken an online course as of last fall tripled from fall 2008, from 10 percent to 30 percent, only about 26 percent of teachers surveyed expressed interest in diving into online teaching if they hadn't already done so
The share of adults in the United States who own an e-book reader doubled to 12% in May, 2011 from 6% in November 2010
users of the microblogging service now post 200 million tweets a day, Twitter announced in a blog post Thursday. That's up from 65 million tweets a day a year ago.
Even in little 140-character bites, that's a lot of verbiage. Twitter offers some context on this: Assuming the average tweet is 25 words, that means that "every day, the world writes the equivalent of a 10 million-page book" -- or 8,163 copies of Leo Tolstoy's epic novel "War and Peace."
Apple released the first iPad in April 2010
That was only 14 months ago. Look at what it's already done to a variety of different industries and our expectations about how we interact with information...
26,000 of the 32,000 post offices in the United States are losing money every year
The Angry Birds games now have been downloaded 250 million times across all mobile platforms.
global Internet traffic is expected to quadruple between 2010 and 2015, according to data provided by Cisco.
By that time, nearly 3 billion people will be using the Internet — more than 40% of the world’s projected population. On average, there will be more than two Internet connections for each person on Earth, driven by the proliferation of web-enabled mobile devices.
80% of mobile video is streamed through an Apple device
more than 48 hours (two days worth) of video are uploaded to the site every minute
E-books currently make up around 11 percent of the total book market. The percentage of print book consumers who say they download e-books more than doubled between October 2010 and January 2011—from 5 percent to almost 13 percent.
In the UK, Amazon announced it had sold 242 ebooks for every 100 hardbacks since 1 April 2011. "Amazon.co.uk customers are choosing Kindle books more often than hardcovers at a rate of more than 2 to 1," said Gordon Willoughby, European director at Kindle. . . .
A spokesman for Amazon.co.uk said the figures included sales of hardback books where no Kindle edition was available, and did not include free Kindle downloads. . . .
The UK figures represent a quicker uptake of Kindle ebooks than Amazon saw in the US, although John Howells, spokesman for Waterstone's, said its own Waterstones.com ebook sales had outstripped hardbacks for "quite a while".
"For every hardback we sell online, we sell four ebooks online," Howells said.
Since April 1, for every 100 print books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 105 Kindle books. This includes sales of hardcover and paperback books by Amazon where there is no Kindle edition. Free Kindle books are excluded and if included would make the number even higher.
According to Sandvine' latest Global Internet Phenomena Report, Netflix now comprises almost 30% of peak downstream traffic in North America.
But beyond the evening, primetime hours, Netflix has become the largest source of Internet traffic overall - some 22.2% of traffic.
Smartphones — i.e., iPhones, Androids, Blackberrys, and other devices that double as pocket-sized computers — also continue to proliferate on campuses. The gadgets, which are either soul-sapping attention vampires or revolutionary learning aids, depending on whom you ask, are now more than halfway to saturating the student market, according to the survey: 54 percent of students now own a smartphone, up from 41 percent at this time last year.
And they'd like to be able to use them with university teaching and administrative systems...
a majority (54 percent) of all new mobile-phone handsets purchased by U.S. consumers [are now] smartphones
How will we respond as educators? Will we continue to ban these small but powerful portable computers?
Amazon announced a new feature for its Kindle e-reader called Library Lending, which will enable users to borrow e-books from more than 11,000 libraries in the U.S. The feature will launch later this year, and be available for all Kindle generations.
Netflix knocked over a new milestone Monday: It now has more subscribers than the largest cable TV operator in the U.S.
Netflix's global subscriber base grew almost 70% over the past year, to 23.6 million users. With that audience, it dethroned Comcast as the country's biggest provider of subscription video content. More than 7% of Americans now subscribe to Netflix.
