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Facebook’s Status latest infographic

efriend — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:46:07 +0000

Think of a place where 845 million monthly active users actively participating, 100 billion connections, 250 billion photos uploaded there daily, 2.7 billion likes every day, 425 million mobile users, each user spends 20 minutes and the place is Facebook-the largest social network. Facebook’s rise is from a net income of million in 2009 to a whooping billion in last year! Facebook got it’s most users from Asia, and the U.S. has the largest penetration per population. These huge number of users uploading 250 million photos a day, playing games they like, and shares what they like. Are you interested in the facts and statistics then here is a nice infographic from infographiclabs giving the detailed statistics of Facebook..

Mark Zuckerberg is the Founder, Chairman and CEO, of Facebook. According to Facebook, it has one billion monthly active users as of October 2012.Approximately 81% of the monthly active users are outside the U.S. and Canada. It receives 552 million daily active users (on average in June 2012). 600 million monthly active users who used Facebook mobile products in September 2012. You can also check the country based Facebook statistics provided by Socialbakers.

You may have also have an account in Facebook. How is your Facebook experience? Can you predict the growth of Facebook for the next 10 years? Do you think that the existing social networking sites may makes serous threat to the Facebook traffic with in a few years? Do you predict a new social site, which may easily replace Facebook with in a few years (remember the stories of Orkut, Myspace,etc..)?

How Wikipedia has revolutionized research-Infographic

efriend — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:03:51 +0000

Wikipedia doesn’t need any introduction. It is one of the best online encyclopedia available in the world and it is free. Encyclopedia Britannica has decided to go out of print, after 244 years, on facing the realities and the competition from Wikipedia. The Encyclopedia Britannica will now focus primarily on their online services. Wikipedia has grown to be the number one free source for all. Wikipedia provides a wealth of information with over 26 billion pages of content. Many times Wikipedia has been questioned, about the accuracy of Wikipedia article. The editors of Wikipedia, popularly known as Wikipedians, are vigilant with ensuring the data in Wikipedia is current and accurate. Various studies shows that Wikipedia is almost as accurate as the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Here is an infographic from open-site, highlights how Wikipedia has revolutionized research and how it has become a reliable fountain of knowledge.

Some of the interesting factors of Wikipedia are, it has 3,881,516 articles in English Wikipedia, 27 million, 99% of Wikipedia pages rank in Google’s top 10 search results. 8 out of 10 students use Wikipedia as their first source of research and Wikipedia is the 6th most visited site and is available in 250 languages.

What is your opinion about Online Encyclopedia’s? Are you still believe in the old printed style multi volume encyclopedia? Do you think the articles in Wikipedia are authentic and accurate?

What Is Happening On The Internet Every Minute?

efriend — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 07:21:20 +0000

Did you ever think of a day without the internet? Before the invention of the internet, it is not a big problem, or even no one know what had happened. However, now things are changed a lot. We cannot think of a day without the internet. It strongly related to our daily life. From banking’s to travelling, online booking to shopping, researching to partner finding, everywhere it is used. This technology changed our life a lot. We can now know any information from our living room or where ever we are, we can connect to anyone, we can find any information, we can find flights, travel, accommodation, account balance, purchasing, cash transaction, connecting, contacting, watching movies, listening to music, joking, etc. There is no other technology has this much of influence to people all over the world. It can use the rich in the poor. It can use common man to a diplomat!

The internet is growing day by day, minutes by minute and second by second. Millions of contents, videos, photos, tweets, file uploads are happening every hour. Nearly 70+ domains registered in every minute. 694,445 search queries are entered into the Google search box every minute. 168 million emails are sending in every minute. 600+ new videos are adding to YouTube in each minute. 98,000 tweets are sending in every minute. In addition, to this 13,000+ iPhone downloads in every minute, 6 billion pages are added to the web every day, 60+ new blogs are created every minute, so on. So, possibly you are interested to know what is happening in the internet every minute. Here is a cool infographic showing what things are happening on the internet every second. The infographic only considered most popular tools, apps and destinations. Millions of other things are happening on the internet every minute.

{Source Go-Globe.com}

What is your opinion about it? Can you predict the future of it? Can you imagine the situation, having no access to anyone or no information about the internet for a few days due to some technical problems or due to some advanced viruses? How can we overcome such a situation? Can you suggest some alternative solutions for it?