The graph shows the dramatic shift away from Windows-powered Intel machines (Wintel) in the past few years. Apple drove a wedge into the Wintel monopoly, but it’s Google’s Android OS that’s really eating Microsoft’s lunch. Since Q4 2010, combined shipments of tablets and smartphones have exceeded the number of PCs shipped, Meeker reports, and that trend shows no sign of reversing. Other tidbits: Meeker’s data show 2.4 billion Internet users worldwide, a number that’s still growing eight percent yearly. There are 1.1 billion smartphone subscribers worldwide — but that’s still just 17 percent of the global cellphone market. 29 percent of adults in the U.S. now own either a tablet or an e-reader. Mobile devices now account for 13 percent of worldwide Internet traffic, up from 4 percent in 2010. Mobile app and advertising revenue has grown at an annual rate of 129 percent since 2008, and now tops $19 billion. Mobile traffic app Waze has been adding users faster than all GPS makers combined have sold personal navigation units, and it’s been that way since the beginning of 2012. (via Mary Meeker releases stunning data on the state of the Internet | VentureBeat)
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The graph shows the dramatic shift away from Windows-powered Intel machines (Wintel) in the past few years. Apple drove a wedge into the Wintel monopoly, but it’s Google’s Android OS that’s really eating Microsoft’s lunch. Since Q4 2010, combined shipments of tablets and smartphones have exceeded the number of PCs shipped, Meeker reports, and that trend shows no sign of reversing.

Other tidbits:

  • Meeker’s data show 2.4 billion Internet users worldwide, a number that’s still growing eight percent yearly.
  • There are 1.1 billion smartphone subscribers worldwide — but that’s still just 17 percent of the global cellphone market.
  • 29 percent of adults in the U.S. now own either a tablet or an e-reader.
  • Mobile devices now account for 13 percent of worldwide Internet traffic, up from 4 percent in 2010.
  • Mobile app and advertising revenue has grown at an annual rate of 129 percent since 2008, and now tops $19 billion.
  • Mobile traffic app Waze has been adding users faster than all GPS makers combined have sold personal navigation units, and it’s been that way since the beginning of 2012.

(via Mary Meeker releases stunning data on the state of the Internet | VentureBeat)

Source: venturebeat.com

wired: August 7, 1991: The World Wide Web becomes publicly available on the internet for the first time. The web has changed a lot since Tim Berners-Lee posted, on this day, the first webpages summarizing his World Wide Web project, a method of storing knowledge using hypertext documents. In the months leading up to his post, Berners-Lee had developed everything necessary to make the web a reality, including the first browser and server. Read more about the beginnings of the WWW you’ve grown so fond of typing, @ This Day in Tech. happy 21st, enjoy your cats in tubes!
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wired:

August 7, 1991: The World Wide Web becomes publicly available on the internet for the first time.

The web has changed a lot since Tim Berners-Lee posted, on this day, the first webpages summarizing his World Wide Web project, a method of storing knowledge using hypertext documents. In the months leading up to his post, Berners-Lee had developed everything necessary to make the web a reality, including the first browser and server.

Read more about the beginnings of the WWW you’ve grown so fond of typing, @ This Day in Tech.

happy 21st, enjoy your cats in tubes!

futurejournalismproject:

The Internet’s Population Doubled Over the Last Five Years

Royal Pingdom susses out some interesting trends about the world’s 2.27 billion Internet users:

  • Africa has gone from 34 million to 140 million, a 317% increase.
  • Asia has gone from 418 million to over 1 billion, a 143% increase.
  • Europe has gone from 322 million to 501 million, a 56% increase.
  • The Middle East has gone from 20 to 77 million, a 294% increase.
  • North America has gone from 233 to 273 million, a 17% increase.
  • Latin America (South & Central America) has gone from 110 to 236 million, a 114% increase.
  • Oceania (including Australia) has gone from 19 to 24 million, a 27% increase.

They also note that Asia’s Internet population is almost as large* the entire Internet population was in 2007.

*My original post stated that Asia’s Internet population was almost double, not almost as large. Thanks to Anna for catching that.

futurejournalismproject:

The Importance of Facebook Cannot be Overstated

Selected slides from a larger comScore deck examining global social networking, microblogging and mobile trends. Select any thumbnail to embiggen.

In related news, it’s estimated that Facebook will attract its 1 billionth user this August. That’s 14 percent of the global population.

Images: via comScore.

Facebook, It's Biggie Sized

futurejournalismproject:

Via Business Insider:

Facebook has as many users today as the whole internet had in 2004, the year Facebook was founded.

The data comes from Royal Pingdom, which cites an internet growth statistics site that plots the amount of users using the internet in any given year.

Facebook has over 800 million active users today, while seven years ago in May 2004, there were only 757 million people using the internet worldwide in grand total.

In other eye-popping numbers: it’s now estimated that over 500 million people are now online in China and it’s estimated there’ll be 4.5 billion global mobile phone subscribers by 2012.