Jun 27, 2011
This graph shows the amount of Internet surfing done in China, according to device. It is interesting to note: – How Nokia still dominates in terms of the number of devices surfing the Internet. – How quickly iOs and Android have become top-5 devices for Internet searching and surfing. The next version of this graph
Apr 17, 2011
The US-based Interactive Advertising Bureau recently released their annual report, which included an interesting comparison of the pace of growth adspend on the Internet vs broadcast and cable. The data is from an independent survey compiled from companies selling advertising online. (Click on the chart for a full-sized version). It is interesting to see the
Jan 6, 2011
Pulled together two charts using stats from the World Bank to look at the relative connectivity of major markets in East Asia and their GDP level. (The second chart is better!) In the top chart, vertical denotes mobile penetration, with horizontal looking at Internet penetration. The size of the balls denote the actual number of
Nov 10, 2010
The Internet, I recently argued, is making us stupid. This may seem a strange stance for someone who blogs and runs a social media team, but I put forward this point of view in a debate organized by Intelligence Squared in Hong Kong. Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia co-founder, and Kaiser Kuo, now working at Chinese Internet
Feb 1, 2010
Asia’s Internet speed is not surprising news, but the details of this recent report on the Internet by Akamai show how much Asia and South Korea dominate the world of high speed Internet. Korea is also increasing the average national Internet speed at the fastest pace of any country in the world. Korea, Japan and
Oct 31, 2009
Interesting chart from Silicon Alley Insider on how Google’s revenue per employee has hit a three year high, with a revenue per employee hitting US$302,314.
Aug 22, 2009
Usage of the Internet in the US is turning more towards Green issues, Toys and Cars, according to July numbers just released by comScore Media Metrix. Top 10 Gaining Site Categories* by Percentage Change in Unique Visitors (U.S.)
Jul 25, 2009
Users clicking onto videos links sent via Twitter spend significantly longer watching those videos than those arriving from Digg or Facebook, according to a new study by video stats site TubeMogul. The methodology (below) seems fairly robust, so it may offer a real insight into current Twitter usage: On Twitter you can follow interesting people,
Jul 19, 2009
TeleGeography‘s map of intra-Asia Telecommunications Traffic Flows shows a few interesting things about how Asians communicate (or not). The measure is millions of minutes of telecommunications traffic over one year on the public telephone network. (Total combined volume for Asia is more than 100 million minutes). Squint hard and you can see arrows that show
Jul 18, 2009
With the rising popularity of Instant messenger, Twitter-style status updates in social networks and other alternate forms of online communication, it is not surprising to see the continued decline of email usage among younger Internet users. I first came across the trend about 3 years ago or so at Ola Ahlvarsson’s SIME conference in Sweden,
Jul 18, 2009
Amazon’s mass deletion of Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindle readers yesterday infuriated everyone who had purchased the books. One reader lost his notes taken while reading the book in the deletion, thus accused Amazon of stealing his intellectual property: Justin Gawronski, a 17-year-old from the Detroit area, was reading “1984” on his Kindle
Jul 1, 2009
I recently answered a few questions about Social Media monitoring in Asia for Arun Sudhaman of Media magazine. Arun’s article was an excellent synthesis of many views (I cannot find the link!). Here are my views: Which are the key social media tracking tools (paid and unpaid) that you use, and why? How do they
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Thomas Crampton was a correspondent for the
International Herald Tribune and The New York Times for more than a decade, reporting from five continents, writing a column on Asia and covering Asian politics, economics and culture. Currently based in Hong Kong, he writes here about China, the Internet and New Media seen from Asia, while also advising companies on digital communication strategies. For more information click here...
