Things That Happen On The Internet Every Sixty Seconds!

Infographic by- Shanghai Web Designers


Did You Know That - In 60 SECONDS

Search engine Google serves more that 694,445 queries

6,600+ pictures are uploaded on Flickr

600 videos are uploaded on YouTube videos, amounting to 25+ hours of content

695,000 status updates, 79,364 wall posts and 510,040 comments are published on Social Networking site Facebook

70 New domains are registered

168,000,000+ emails are sent

320 new accounts and 98,000 tweets are generated on Social Networking site Twitter

iPhone applications are downloaded more than13,000 times

20,000 new posts are published on Micro-blogging platform tumbler

Popular web browser FireFox is downloaded more than 1700 times

Popular blogging platform Wordpress is downloaded more than 50 times

WordPress Plugins aredownloaded more than 125 times

100 accounts are created on professional networking site LinkedIn

40 new Questions are asked on YahooAnswers.com

100+ questions are asked on Answers.com

1 new article is published on Associated Content, the world’s largest source of community-created content

1 new definition is added on UrbanDictionary.com

1,200+ new ads are created on Craigslist

370,000+ minutes of voice calls done by Skype users

13,000+ hours of music streaming is done by personalized Internet radio provider Pandora

1,600+ reads are made on Scribd, the largest social reading publishing company

Zuckerberg Kills Emailing With Instant Messaging

 

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Instant messaging available from platforms such as Facebook looks set to replace cell phone text messaging. As the new generation of teenagers buy into smartphones such as iPhones, and BlackBerries because they provide a free BBM instant messenger platforms and there is no limit to the length or number of characters in a message.

Not so long ago teenagers revelled in the ability to ‘text speak’, a garbled mix of phonetic spelling, numbers and invented shorthand which, much to their amusement, was almost completely undecipherable to their parents. Suddenly this trend has turned on its head as more expensive smartphones with predictive text requiring less thought and are just as quick to write, are faster cheaper instant internet based real time text-based conversations. Now to use ‘text speak’ is to admit to not owning a smartphone!

Instant messaging is also predicted to make emails redundant, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was quoted as saying that ‘email is dead’ due to the launch last November 2010 of Facebook’s instant messaging service.

The Antisocial Network

Brands are flocking to Facebook in greater herds than ever before. Facebook has become an integral tick box on just about every marketing plan.

Yet setting up a Facebook page alone won’t suddenly make a brand more social. The question for a brand to ask is not whether to use social media. The question to ask is how to make your brand more engaging. An antisocial brand using social media is still an antisocial brand.

After drawing “how brands talk” a few weeks ago about the self-promotional way that many brands talk with consumers, I’ve been thinking about where these brands talk to consumers. Many brands use social media to talk at consumers the same way they talk at consumers everywhere. They blab about their benefits, products, and services.

Yet there is no captive audience in media nowadays, particularly online. Brands should think less about transactions and more about relationships.

Think about the Nike Livestrong/Chalkbot campaign, which deservedly won the digital grand prix at Cannes a few months ago. Nike sponsored a computerized road painting machine that “chalked” inspirational messages along the Tour de France. People submitted 36,000 messages through social media. Each message was printed on the section of the course, photographed, tagged with GPS coordinates and emailed to the person who submitted it.

What made this campaign social was not that it used social media tools. It was about the cause, not the shoes. It’s not where brands communicate. It’s how brands communicate.