Oct 5, 20090
Oct 1, 20090
Official Google Blog: Translate your website with Google: Expand your audience globally
How long would it take to translate all the world’s web content into 50 languages? Even if all of the translators in the world worked around the clock, with the current growth rate of content being created online and the sheer amount of data on the web, it would take hundreds of years to make even a small dent.Today, we’re happy to announce a new website translator gadget powered by Google Translate that enables you to make your site’s content available in 51 languages. Now, when people visit your page, if their language as determined by their browser settings is different than the language of your page, they’ll be prompted to automatically translate the page into their own language. If the visitor’s language is the same as the language of your page, no translation banner will appear.
via Official Google Blog: Translate your website with Google: Expand your audience globally.
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Sep 10, 20090
Social networks growing
Globally, social networks have enjoyed a 25% growth in unique visitors in the last year. Some sites have doubled their user base.
Comscore, August 2008
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Sep 10, 20090
5% of all time online is spent on Facebook.
Sep 10, 20090
Men on Twitter
Twitter: Although men and women follow a similar number of Twitter users, men have 15% more followers than women.
HarvardBusiness.org, June 2009
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Sep 10, 20090
Obama is connected
By election day, fully 25% of people who pulled the lever for Obama were already connected to his campaign electronically.
New York Magazine, January 2009
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Sep 10, 20090
iPhone users access mobile media
Sep 10, 20090
Mobile Spend to Grow
Paid mobile search spend worldwide is forecast to grow from $260.60m in 2009 to $2,977.30m in 2012.
eMarketer, March 2009
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Sep 10, 20090
iTunes 6 billions songs
Worldwide, over 6 billion songs have been sold on iTunes.
TechCrunch, January 2009
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Sep 10, 20090
95.1% of users connected to the internet in the UK are on broadband connections.
95.1% of users connected to the internet in the UK are on broadband connections.
Websiteoptimization.com, December 2008
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Sep 10, 20090
60% of all homes in the EU27 countries had internet access
In December 2008, Eurostat reported that 60% of all homes in the EU27 countries had internet access, and 48% had broadband. This equates to 4 in 5 homes with internet access in the EU-27 having broadband. In 13 out of the EU-27 markets, over 50% of all homes had broadband – including UK (62%), Germany (55%), France (57%).
Eurostat, December 2008
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Sep 10, 20090
48% of home broadband users have used wireless broadband at home in the last month.
48% of home broadband users have used wireless broadband at home in the last month.
IAB/PwC, ‘Online AdspendStudy H2 2008′, April 2009
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Sep 10, 20090
Global Financial Crisis
We’re in the midst of a global financial crisis – the worst in living memory, and the first serious slowdown of the digital era. The IMF went on record in January as saying that they expect the global economy to grow by just 0.5% in 2009, its lowest rate for 60 years, and Eurozone GDP to actually shrink by 2.0%.
IMF, January 2009
Popularity: 15% [?]
Sep 10, 20090
Global Trade Decline
On March 23rd, 2009 the World Trade Organisation (WTO) predicted that global trade will plunge by 9% this year—the steepest drop since the second world war.
Economist, March 2009
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Sep 10, 20090
Job Cuts
On January 26th 2009, more than 76,000 job cuts were announced worldwide on just that single day.
Financial Times, January 2009
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