The document discusses various statistics related to social media and online technologies: 68% of Gen-Y respondents visit social networking sites daily; 65% of media and communications marketers use or plan to use RSS; World of Warcraft grew from 1.5 million users in 2005 to 9 million users in 2008 requiring a 2GB patch; the number of podcast downloads by web users increased from 7% in April 2006 to 19% in August 2008. Over 1,200 terabytes of torrent data were being shared on the internet as of December 2008 according to a BitTorrent search engine.
14. World of Warcraft
(worldwide numbers)
2005 - 1.5 Million users
2008 - 9 Million users
Latest patch = 2GB
(World of Warcraft hits 9 Million worldwide.
VideoGamesBlogger.com; link)
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17. Intermission / Shameless Self Promotion
Adam J. Winn
ajwinn@gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/ajwinn
www.slideshare.net/ajwinn
(note: slideshare.NET/ajwinn)
18. Wikipedia
Since 2001 - 6.40 million
articles in 260
languages generated
from 236 million edits
by 5.77 million
contributors
(Wikipedia:About. Wikipedia; link)
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24. Downloaded at least one Podcast
April 2006 – 7% of Web Users
Aug. 2006 – 12% of Web Users
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Aug. 2008 – 19% of Web Users
(Podcast Downloading. Pew Internet & American Life Project; link)
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31. According to ISOhunt.com,
(a BitTorrent search engine)
as of December 3, 2008,
1,204 Terabytes of torrent
data humming through
Internet.
