Google enjoys a commanding lead in mobile Web search in the United States, according to Opera’s State of the Mobile Web Report. (January, 2010) Accounting for more than 9% of all page views on the mobile Web in the United States, Google’s search portal easily outpaces rivals Yahoo! and Bing, with 4.3% and 0.03% of all page views, respectively.
+ Among mobile Web users in the Middle East, Google is at the top of the rankings in 9 out of the top 10 countries. In Israel, Google is number 2 (behind Facebook).
+ Facebook is also very popular, taking the #2 spot in six of the top 10 countries, the #3 spot in three of the top 10 countries, and the #1 spot in one of the top 10 countries.
Stats about Opera Mini, Opera's Mobile Browser
+ In January 2010, 50 million people used Opera Mini, a 7.4% increase from December 2009 and up 149% compared to January 2009.
+ Opera Mini users viewed more than 23.3 billion pages in January 2010. Since December, page views have gone up 12.7%. Since January 2009, page views have increased 208%.
+ In January 2010, Opera Mini users generated over 337 million MB of data for operators worldwide. Since December, the data consumed went up by 7.0%. Data in Opera Mini is compressed by up to 90%. If this data were uncompressed, Opera Mini users would have viewed over 3.1 PB of data in January. Since January 2009, data traffic is up 176%.
+ The top 10 countries for Opera Mini usage in January 2010 were: Russia, Indonesia, India, Ukraine, China, South Africa, the United States, Nigeria, Vietnam and the United Kingdom.
+ Looking at the top 10 countries according to Opera Mini usage (in Part 2 of the report), Nigeria — in only its second month back on the list after a 3-month absence — overtook Vietnam in January.
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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).
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