More stats, now to satisfy your curiosity about the visitors heading to some of the biggest websites out there.
http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/website-showdown-twitter-infographic_b11727#more-11727
Contributed by Scott Shue
Remember Hans Rosling’s awesome Ted talks? Google lab’s Public Data Explorer uses the technology they acquired from the Gapminder Foundation to ‘make large data sets easy to explore, visualize and communicate’ (Google).
Explore the data here.
How do you spend your day? The New York Times has created an interactive graph showing how different groups spend their day. Broken down into multiple categories, you can see how someone who is unemployed, might differ from an employed person. Broken down by age, sex, race and many other factors. Very interesting, and informative.
See the graph here
87% of Facebook app usage can be attributed to only 84 applications, according to Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Research. Only 45 applications had 100,000 or more active users. So basically if you want your app to make any sort of splash, it needs to be in the top 10% most used apps. After that the falloff is precipitous.
Read the whole story here
