Resources of the Week: Internet and Social Networking Stats
Resources of the Week: Internet and Social Networking Stats
By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor
How many people use the Internet -- in China? How many people are using Twitter? What are the demographics of Facebook users? What percentage of folks have high speed Internet access at home? Find the answers to all of these questions and many, many more at the following websites:
+ ClickZ Stats ("News and expert advice for the digital marketer")
Stats on social networks are important, but I'm going to need your help in creating a community archive, can you submit stats as you find them? I'm often asked, "What are the usage numbers for X social network" and I've received considerable traffic on my very old post (way back in Jan 08) of MySpace and Facebook stats, even months later. Decision makers, press, media, and users are hungry for numbers, so I'll start to aggregate them as I see them.
Welcome to Domain Tools's daily domain statistics page. Our stats show how many domains are currently registered and how many domains used to be registered but are now deleted.
The U.S. Census Bureau's Internet site devoted exclusively to 'Measuring the Electronic Economy.' This site features recent and upcoming releases, information on methodology, and background papers.
+ Facebook Press Room: Statistics
Facebook publishes its own set of frequently updated statistics about growth, "user engagement," etc.
As a United Nations agency, the ITU has an obligation to identify, define, and produce statistics covering its sector - the telecommunication/ICT sector.
A family of resources to help information workers be more effective, raise the value of information in their organisations and contribute to success. Read more »
Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
FreePint Family
Quilting big data threads
The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
