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01.25.09Internet Population Passes 1 Billion
Trends CommentsAs reported by ComScore, the world-wide internet population has surpasses 1 billion as of December 2008. While it is quite a big number, the data also mean another 5 billion people are not online. Having grown up with internet since elementary school, I cannot imagine life with out it. ComScore broke the data down to the top 15 countries with the largest internet populations. The top 15 countries seemed to pretty obvious to me, so I decided to find out what portion of each country was online. Country Online Total Percentage China 179.7 1330 13.5% USA 163.3 303.8 53.8% Japan 60 127.3 47.1% Germany 37 82.4 44.9% United Kingdom 36.7 60.9 60.3% France 34 61.5 55.3% India 32.1 1148 2.8% Russia 29 140.7 20.6% Brazil 27.7 191.9 14.4% South Korea 27.3 48.4 56.4% Canada 21.8 33.2 65.7% Italy 20.8 58.1 35.8% Spain 17.9 40 44.75% Mexico 12.5 110 11.4% Netherlands 11.8 16.5 71.5% China is in #1 with the biggest ...
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11.20.08Internet Socializing Not Bad
Trends CommentsAccording to the New York Times, Mizuko Ito, a research at Univeristy of California, Irvine, claims that internet socializing, which has caused fear in many parents, is not necessarily bad. She says, "But their participation is giving them the technological skills and literacy they need to succeed in the contemporary world. They’re learning how to get along with others, how to manage a public identity, how to create a home page." The study, part of a $50 million project on digital and media learning, used several teams of researchers to interview more than 800 young people and their parents and ...
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11.11.08Go Microsoft, Next-Generation Touch Screen
Trends CommentsMicrosoft Research is always doing cutting edge stuff. Bill G must have a lot of toys.
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10.27.08Big Companies As Market Openers
Trends CommentsIt is normal to be afraid of big companies. With all their resources, they are a major competitors and steal your customers with a snap of a finger. For example, I'm sure Google Calendar killed a lot of other web applications out there. However, another view that people don't normally think about is to look at large corporations as market openers. As much as they have the power to move things against your favor, they have just as much power to move things in your favor. Sometimes, entrepreneurs have really great ideas, but the market or infrastructure is just not there ...
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10.26.08Kevin Rose: Start Up During A Recession
Startup, Trends CommentsKevin Rose chimes in on why he thinks it's good idea to do a startup in the midst of an economic downturn. My views is similar to his. He agrees with Paul Graham's original post, and so do I. Since Facebook, Youtube, Digg, MySpace, and Flickr were founded, there hasn't really been any other companies that has captured my attention in the same way (well, maybe except twitter). There has been a lot of excitement, but frankly too much noise. Why to start a new startup in a bad economywww.kevinrose.com...
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10.24.08Job Boards Fell 46%
Trends CommentsWhile Startuply seems to be doing OK, other job boards have been seeing a decline in jobs. Joblighted, an online job aggregator, has reported its statistics, showing a clear decline in job listings. As I noted, Startuply is only one player this entire ecosystem, and it'll be great to see data on others as well. Joblighted aggregates some of the biggest job boards, such as KropJobs, 37 Signals Jobs, CrunchBoard. While, there roughly 65 jobs posted per day pack in July, now there are roughly 35 jobs posted per day in October. That's a 46% ...
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10.24.08Startuply: Job Market Holding Steady … So Far
Trends CommentsIt's clear by now that the technology industry is not insulated from the Wall Street fallout. Layoffs have been popular from large corporations (EBay, Yahoo, HP) to startups (Mahalo, Seesmic, Adbrite). On the hand, TechCrunch has also noted that many of these layoffs may not be actual layoffs, but just an opportunity to get rid of the dead wood. I reached out to Startuply, a YCombinator job site focused on jobs at startups, for their input on this matter. Luke Groesbeck, one of the co-founder, stated that he "hasn't seen any major ...
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10.21.08Be Crazy, But Not Delusional
Trends CommentsEntrepreneurs are always telling other entrepreneurs to just go for it. Drop out of school, start a company. Quit that job, do something you're passionate about. We are the misfits. I'm totally for the gun-ho attitude, but I think it's almost important to keep a realistic mindset. I don't want to see people putting their whole life on the line, on an idea that probably just won't work. Do you really need another generic web 2.0 toy. There were a lot of toy-ish websites built from 2006-2008, and most of that will die given the recent economic downturn. People need to ...
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05.08.08Value of Social Responsibility in the US: $530 billion
Trends CommentsJerry Lao is today's contributing writer. He's an aspiring entrepreneur, about to graduate from UC Berkeley. He sure has more to say than I did. Impacted catchphrase Recently, I’ve noticed the media has been maniacally throwing around the catchphrase, “social responsibility,” as if it were the solution to an impending apocalypse. A recent keyword search on Digg.com for social responsibility garnered 69 pages of results; Google returned a little over 20 million results. The media has inadvertently – or stupidly – jumbled a bunch of ideas on ...
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Writer: Jeff Wang. I just graduated from UC Berkeley, majoring in Computer Science. Most posts will be dedicated to young entreprenuers.
My previous work experience include Microsoft and TechCrunch. I am an aspiring entrepreneur.
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