Many traditional media CEOs, especially Rupert Murdoch consider that the answer to the big question about how to monetize internet is about offering paid content. In the other hand, we heard more and more people saying that they are not willing to pay for digital content, probably spoiled by internet “free” access.
Probably one of the most farsighted and most well renowned logos in the mobile industry was “Connecting people” from Nokia, the finish handset manufacturer. The slogan, created by Ove Strandberg, established the vision of the mobile industry during the last decade: connect 6 Billion people via wireless technology. Clearly, the wireless industry has done an incredible job on fulfilling this shared vision. Currently, more than 4 Billion users around the world communicate via a mobile device and in the next 3 years another 1 Billion people will join them. Besides, wireless broadband is growing exponentially and via 2014 most of internet connections will be performed via wireless network.
But the question today is what is going to be the next decade motto for this industry?
Only 13 percent of Internet users are willing to pay for news content online. At least that’s one conclusion that emerges from UANA survey commissioned by the newspaper The Wall Street Journal.
Do you tweet while driving? Do you update your Facebook status at work or during vacation? Have you ever wonder how much time people spend on social networking activities like updating status, checking in on Facebook or posting a tweet on Twitter?
A recent study from Retrevo.com, a consumer electronics shopping site, tried to find the answers on how much control people have over their social media life.
What kind of things people has been googling during this year? Google just released their official list with the fastest rising searches for 2009.
Honestly, Google doesn’t provide a unique list , but several rankings that gives you a global and local perspective.
It really worth to go trough the different rankings, as Google search is the number one search engine and a good reflection on what is happening on Internet. The list gives you some interesting trends and also reflects the most important events during this 2009.
Check a short summary below
Aging is one of the most striking mega trends changing our society in the next decade. Over the next ten years, aging and how we respond to it will increasingly affect society. The number of 65+ year olds will increase greatly between now and the year 2020.
An aging population will have several implications to the society, workforce market and new technologies that will emerge.
But is also interesting to notice that elderly of tomorrow will behave different as elderly of today. Fresher, more technologically savvy, better educated seniors and a big need for elderly involvement in employment and society in general, could change the way will look aging.
Social media is already mainstream media and Singapore is at the forefront. The most wired country in the world with more broadband connections than homes is leading the way on time spent on social networks. With 4.8 broadband connections in total and highly advanced digital pattern, Singaporeans spend in average 1.300 minutes on internet every month according to Comscore.
Is also fascinating to see that Social media is chaging consumer norms and value. For instance, 51% of all Singaporeans trust more in blogs than traditional media, and Blogger is the 6th most visited site in the country. On the 20 top most visited sites in Singapore, 80% are related to social media or user generated content.
About 71% of all Singaporeans belong to a social networking site according to brand republic and they visit social networking site in average 17 times a month . continue reading »
2020 workplace won’t look the same as today. We will see a more flexible, freelance based, highly collaborative and far less secure work world. It will be run by a generation with new values — and women will increasingly be at the control
Technology and the ageing population will be the main drivers of change for bringing opportunities and new ways of work like more flexible career paths and nomadic working environments. Future worker will be highly specialized and the lack of personal contact might change the culture of organizations as an important of their jobs will be teleworking. Finally will seeing a blurfed division between home, work, retail, information, entertainment.
Let me share the top 10 likely truths for the future workplace in this post.
Some few weeks back my mother, which is 70 years old, started her own Facebook account. As a new social media user it took her sometime before she really understood the concept of social networks, but after three weeks she started uploading pictures, tagging people, commenting on walls (sometimes without distinguishing between walls and direct messages) and increasing her network by adding all our extended family.
Maybe this is good reflection on how Social media sites are becoming a mainstream channel for communication. And in the case of Facebook, it looks like its attracting a bigger amount of old users meanwhile younger users are focusing more on microblogging.
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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