Thomas Crampton

Social Media in China and across Asia

Internet

Mobile Internet in China: Nokia vs iPhone vs Android

Jun 27, 2011

Mobile Internet in China: Nokia vs iPhone vs Android

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

Growth of Internet Adspend vs Broadcast and Cable

Apr 17, 2011

Growth of Internet Adspend vs Broadcast and Cable

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

Infographic: Asia’s Connectivity (updated)

Jan 6, 2011

Infographic: Asia’s Connectivity (updated)

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

Debate Research: The Internet is Making Us Stupid

Nov 10, 2010

Debate Research: The Internet is Making Us Stupid

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

World’s Fastest Internet: Korea, Japan and Hong Kong

Feb 1, 2010

World’s Fastest Internet: Korea, Japan and Hong Kong

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

Google Employees Earn US$302,314 (for the company)

Oct 31, 2009

Google Employees Earn US$302,314 (for the company)

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.

Internet Trends Towards Cars, Toys and Green

Aug 22, 2009

Internet Trends Towards Cars, Toys and Green

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.)

Facebook: WHO you know; Twitter: WHAT you know

Jul 25, 2009

Facebook: WHO you know; Twitter: WHAT you know

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,

How Much Asia Communicates (Or Not)

Jul 19, 2009

How Much Asia Communicates (Or Not)

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

The Death of Email (yay!)

Jul 18, 2009

The Death of Email (yay!)

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,

Amazon’s forced buyback of purchased books

Jul 18, 2009

Amazon’s forced buyback of purchased books

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

Social Media Monitoring Tools for Asia

Jul 1, 2009

Social Media Monitoring Tools for Asia

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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