Social networking and blog sites accounted for 17% of all internet activity worldwide during last August. This means that every one out of six minutes online is devoted to social media activities according to Nielsen Company.
The popularity of sites like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, MySpace is four times higher than 2005. On September 2009, Facebook reached 300 Millions users and also increased their user time spent on the site in more than 83% compared to last year.
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By 2020 more than 50 billion devices will be connected using broadband connections and every one of us will be surrounded by an average of 10 devices.
M2M is an acronyms for machine-to-machine technology that supports wired or wireless communication between devices. Usually, M2M is more like a set of businesses specifically involved in automating an application between remote devices and an enablement platform. M2M services could be used for automatic pull/ push of data or automatic processing of data.
Wireless M2M encompass a wide range of wireless network technologies including cellular networks, satellite networks, RFID, Wi-FI and Wimax among others.
Currently most of the wireless M2M market is related to RFID applications where Access control, Animal ID, Automobile immobilization and Electronic toll collection encompass 56% of the market according to strategy analytics.
Nevertheless this technology is under a complete revamp mainly driven by the wide spread of mobile broadband. New opportunities will arise in industries like Automotive, Home appliances and utitlies, generating opportunities for ICT stakeholders.
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How the world will looks like in eleven more years. What are the mega trends that will forge our society? How people will live? What will be the main challenges that humankind will face? What type of technologies will affect our way of communicating, sharing and connecting with others?
I tried to list some interesting areas to discuss about the future in this post.
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For most of us the perception of Internet traffic as a fragmented collection of websites, similar to the long tail of content available is a fairly good representation.
But according to a latest reports from Arbor Network there is a consolidation happening. In that sense, 6% of world’s traffic is related to Google sites, becoming the company that receives more traffic in the globe.
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Probably we’ve reached a key milestone in the history of online advertising. For the first time in UK, the internet advertising spending exceeded TV during the first half of 2009, according to Pricewaterhouse Coopers.
By this way, online advertising has grown 100 times during the last 10 years.
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LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional social network with over 40 million members and growing rapidly. Is great place for connecting you to your trusted contacts and helping to exchange knowledge, ideas, and opportunities with a broader network of professionals.
One of the great benefits about LinkedIn is the ability to get visibility from other professionals or business partners and therefore create new opportunities for your business without investing much.
I would like to share 8 ways for using Linkedin as a business development tool for your business.
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