Where is Everyone? (by @baekdal) #media These days, everyone is trying to figure out how to connect with other people. It used to be simple, you just placed some ads in whatever newspaper that was most suited to your product, but now that world is becoming ever more irrelevant. So how do you connect with other people today? And more importantly, how do you do it tomorrow? In this article, we are going to take a little tour through the history of information, or more specifically, where to focus your efforts if you want get in touch with other people. It is a really exciting time, because we are currently in the middle of the most drastic change since the invention of the newspaper. We are seeing an entirely new way for people to interact. So join me on this (unscientific) tour of the last 210 years of information + 10 more years into the future. But before we start to explore the future, let's explore how we got here. Note: The graph predicts influence over time. 1800 - The face to face period 1900 - Read all about it! The Future
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Fascinating Social Media Facts of Year 2010 Social media is not just a social instrument of communication. It is not all about people sharing ideas and thoughts with other people. It is the creation and exchange of ‘User Generated Content’. The ability to transform broadcast media monologues into a social media dialogues that spread, sometimes, faster and wider than television, radio or print. Social Media when compared to year 2009 shows a fantastic growth in terms of people participation, penetration, user-ability, business and more. Now, we are almost at the end of year 2010, and therefore it is time to study and understand some of the Social Media facts and trends that were evolved and followed over the year. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 24 out of the 25 largest newspapers are experiencing declines in circulations because the news reaches users in other formats. 7. 25% of search results for the world’s top 20 brands are linked to user-generated content. 8. Source: 2. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 25. 26. 27. 28. 3. 29. 4. 37. 5.
Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. INFOGRAPHIC: The state of broadband Internet worldwide - Technology - GMANews.TV - Official Website of GMA News and Public Affairs - Latest Philippine News In terms of average Internet broadband download speed alone, the Philippines lags behind roughly two-thirds of the world. The country is bested not just by world superpowers such as China and the US, it is also surpassed by small countries such as Lithuania and Kenya. The Philippines ranks 139 out of 185 countries. Why does this matter? Access to affordable high-speed Internet is a key to economic growth and job creation in developing countries, according to the World Bank. The Bank found that "for every 10 percentage-point increase in high-speed Internet connections there is an increase in economic growth of 1.3 percentage points." That could mean that laggard nations that quickly build capacity for broadband can swiftly catch up with others, and that the Philippines could be missing another opportunity to create more jobs and keep its talented workers home. The Philippines also has a long way to go in terms of Internet penetration. You can view the raw collated data here.