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Google Plus vs. Facebook
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Came across “Gary’s Social Media Count” today via Ronnestam. If this doesn’t have the famous “wow factor”, I’m not sure what does. All of these stats fits in quite well with the recently released “Did You Know?” from The Economist.
Unbelievable, wouldn’t you say? Kudos to Gary.
Did you know? (Version 4.0)
The Economist recently released another of their famous “Did You Know? videos. Fantastic and very interesting data as always. Some personal favorites:
- Over 1,000,000 books are published each year. A Google book search scanner can digitize 1,000 pages every hour
- There are 240,000,000 TVs in the U.S., 2,000,000 are in bathrooms (?!)
- More video was uploaded to YouTube in the last 2 months than if ABC/NBC/HBO had been airing new content 24/7/365 since 1948
- 95% of all songs downloaded last year weren’t paid for
- Wikipedia launched in 2001. It now feature over 13 million articles in 200 languages
- The average American teen send 2,272 text messages … each month
- 90% of the 200 billion emails sent every day is spam
- The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper, and a thousand times more powerful, and about a hundred thousand times smaller than the one computer in MIT 45 years ago
Mashable and Silicon Valley Insider on the same topic.
Some updates to the blog
It’s been a while since WordPress 2.8 aka. “Baker” was released. Even though I think “Coltrane” was a more fundamental change to the usability and backend of WordPress, Baker proved to be the perfect excuse to complete some other improvements that have been on my to-do list for ages.
To start things up I’ve implemented disqus for handling comments. It’s an excellent framework that allows users to login using e.g. their Twitter or Facebook identities. As you might recall, I did some ‘ugly hacks’ to enable a Facebook Connect and Twitter Connect earlier. Disqus also has a neat feature called social media reactions which monitors conversions around your posts, so no need to use the backtype plugin or similar to bring the conversation back. I’d also like to reserve some extra kudos to the DISQUS-team, especially Giannii – they’re absolutely fantastic at getting back to you if you have a problem and seem to monitor conversations regarding disqus in every space.
I’ve also finally got around to writing somewhat decent about me and follow me pages as well as mashed up my social presence to a lifestream page by using the excellent wp-lifestream plugin. Following a tip from Andreas Karman (Swedish post), I cleaned up the archives a bit using smart archives reloaded.
And as a bonus to all iPhone users, you now have an iPhone optimized site if you visit this blog in Safari on your iPhone, compliments to wptouch. Rumours also has it that the feed wasn’t working earlier, that’s now solved.
Puh. Maybe it’s finally time to create some content? It’s just that WordPress is to fun to mess around with.