How Facebook Has Changed and Evolved Over The Years | Infographic

Facebook is no where near the same as it was when it was first launched, and that’s a good thing. Any business needs to stay with the current trends or be a trend setter, which is what Facebook is doing. Many hate on the changes Facebook makes but after a week or two, they forget and don’t look back. Only then do they realise how much better the changes are.

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Twitter Statistics

Twitter just celebrated its fifth year as a technology this week. It began as a small project among a few coworkers at a podcasting company in San Francisco called Odeo. Thanks to Twitter, the world is closer and more “real-time” than ever. Here are some notable statistics regarding Twitter’s five year existence. 

Twitter statistics to tweet:

• 3 years, 2 months and 1 day. The time it took from the first Tweet to the billionth Tweet. »tweet«
• 1 week. The time it now takes for users to send a billion Tweets. »tweet«
• 50 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, one year ago. »tweet«
• 140 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, in the last month. »tweet«
• 177 million. Tweets sent on March 11, 2011. »tweet«
• 456. Tweets per second (TPS) when Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009 (a record at that time). »tweet«
• 6,939. Current TPS record, set 4 seconds after midnight in Japan on New Year’s Day. »tweet«
• 572,000. Number of new Twitter accounts created on March 12, 2011. »tweet«
• 460,000. Average number of new Twitter accounts per day over the last month. »tweet«
• 182%. Increase in number of mobile Twitter users over the past year. »tweet«
• 8. 29. 130. 350. 400. Number of @Twitter employees in Jan 2008, Jan 2009, Jan 2010, Jan 2011 and Mar 2012. »tweet« 

 

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Who Likes What: Social Media By Demographic

Do you ever wonder what social networking sites you should be focusing your marketing efforts on?

This handy infographic breaks down the top social networking sites by gender, age, income, and education demographics. We also discuss the affinity score of certain keywords for a few social networking sites. The sites included in this graphic are Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Digg, StumbleUpon and YouTube. Click on the graphic below for an enlarged view.

Key Points:

• MySpace has the greatest gender divide, with a 64% female and 36% male membership.
• Twitter has the largest division of wealthy users with 27% earning $75,000/year or more.
• Facebook has the largest division of older users with 37% being 45 years or older.
• Digg has the largest division of users with a graduate degree at 9%.
• Stumbleupon is very popular among graphic designers. You’re 14.2 times more likely to reach a graphic designer through Stumbleupon than if you were to cast your marketing message broadly across the internet.

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Facebook: The Power of “Like” Marketing

A great feature of Facebook is that the messages you send have the potential to spread not just to fans but to friends of fans—known as the “multiplier effect.” Not only does this “multiplier effect” have the ability to spread marketing impressions, it also acts as a validation from a friend. Let’s take a look at a few Facebook fan pages and see how the multiplier effect might impact your marketing strategy. Data courtesy of businessinsider.com, and comscore.com.

 

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Can you believe that the first published website is already 20 years old? Web design has come a long way since the first website was published by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991. This infographic is a peek at the evolutionary tale of web design, which is ironically still in its infant stages. Enjoy the infographic below and let your imagination wander. You might find yourself asking, “Where will web design be in the next 20 years?” 

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Social Media Marketing for Startups [Infographic]

There is still a lot of buzz around using social media to get word out about your startup. And there continues to be some very entertaining and original ideas in using it. This infographic below shows how you – as a startup – can leverage social media marketing as a tool to grow your business and why you may want to invest in some social media training to get up to speed.

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The Startup Ecosystem: Predator vs. Prey

The Startup Ecosystem: Predator vs. Prey is a fun but informative infographic from udemy.  It looks at the different roles related to tech startup companies in an amusing way by personifying them as fish in the sea.

The startup waters are murky and full of hidden dangers. Below the surface, the ecosystem rests in a delicate balance between predators and prey.
To help you navigate these stormy seas, we’ve created the infographic below. Read on to find out where you stand in the startup food chain.

This one is light on data, but does convey valuable information to the reader.  The visual scale of Ubiquitous to Endangered is easy to understand, and the color coding is consistent throughout the design.

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Airbnb's Global Growth

Airbnb has released a fantastic infographic, Airbnb’s Global Growth, sharing their own stats about their phenominal growth from August 2008 to February 2012.

Airbnb started in Brian and Joe’s San Francisco apartment. Today, more than five million nights have been booked on Airbnb. And although Airbnb’s roots are in the USA, more than 75% of all reservations last year were international - where either the traveler or host (or both!) was outside the United States. Check out our infographic celebrating the international growth that you’ve powered.

I think an infographic is a great way for a company to share it’s story with it’s executives, it’s shareholders, the press and the public in general.  Infographics are visual storytelling, and every company has a story to tell.

The design is beautiful!  They’ve included a wide variety of data visualization types: area chart, doughnut chart, maps, bars and illustrations.  The one complaint I have is that too many of the stats are just shown in large text.  Large fonts don’t make good data visualizations.

They made an interesting choice and included the URL for a separate page on their website about the Airbnb service, instead of linking back to the original infographic.  I know they want to promote their service, but I think this is a mistake, because a reader has to search through their blog posts to find the infographic.  A couple things missing from the bottom: a copyright statement and credit to the designer.

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The Learning Power of LEGO

The Learning Power of LEGO infographic from onlinecollege.org brings to light the uses of LEGOs in education as well as a brief history of Lego Bricks.

Lego is a range of construction toys first created by Ole Kirk Christiansen in the 1940s in Denmark. Beginning as a set of stackable, interlocking blocks, Lego has evolved into the company’s global flagship product of colorful plastic pieces that can be assembled and re-assembled in infinite ways. The blocks are so popular with children that LEGO has designed educational products and curricula, and teachers are using them in their classrooms.

This is a bright and colorful design, just like LEGOs themselves. Easy to follow the information down the page, but uses too much text in my opinion.The second section, Statistics, should have used some data visualizations to show the numbers visually. I think they missed an opportunity here to use Legos themselves to visualize the numbers. Hidden in here is the idea that LEGO should be considered the World’s Largest Producer of Tires (which I find astonishing), and a quick visual looking at the world's tire companies would have been great!
The bottom does a good job listing the data sources and the producing company logo, but is missing a URL to the original infographic posting and some type of copyright statement.

Via: Online College Advice

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10 Irish Inventions That Changed The World (Infographic)

With St. Patrick’s Day coming up this weekend, I thought i would share the 10 Irish Inventions that Changed the World infographic from GoIreland.com explores 10 of the greatest Irish inventions ever.

Ireland: The land of saints and scholars, right? Well, sort-of. Whatever about saints, this little island has certainly produced its fair share of clever clogs. For a country that makes no secret of some pretty audacious claims to fame (we even tried to claim that Barack Obama guy as one of our own!!), we have been remarkably quiet about some outstanding Irish inventions.
Modern chemistry? Tick. Color photography? Tick. Both Irish inventions, and, as you can see from the infographic, there are many more. And when it comes to refreshing beverages, it’s not just Guinness that should come to mind. Raise a toast to soda water and chocolate milk, both Irish inventions to rival the black stuff.

Certainly more narrative than data visualizations, but they picked some fun and interesting inventions to include.  There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to the sequence of events; they’re certainly not in chronological order.  I did notice that in the Atomic Bomb section, the visualization for 600,000 Volts actually shows 800,000 Volts.

Three things are missing from the bottom of the design: a copyright statement, the URL where readers can find the original infographic landing page and credit to the designer(s).

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How “Draw Something” Blew Up! | Infographic

If you haven’t played Draw Something already, you need to. It’s basically pictogram on your phone. You draw something and the other person has to guess. The game became so popular that it was the most viral mobile game ever. It was downloaded over 50 million times in 50 days. Within a month it was snapped by Zinga for a whopping $180 million. I bet the guys behind it didn’t think they’d be multi-millionaires within the space of a month.

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A World Without Facebook | Infographic

It’s hard to think of a world without Facebook now that nearly everyone in the world knows what it is. It’s at the forefront of how we communicate with friends from all over the world. Even though many complain about how crap it is, everyone always goes back to it because their friends are on it, it’s become an addiction for many.

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Are You Addicted To The Internet? | Infographic

If you’re reading this you are probably addicted to the internet in some way or another. I know I am, it’s why I run this site. But this site is also my business so I need to be addicted to the internet or I would have no desire to blog.

But would you quit if you could? I know I wouldn’t. I couldn’t go a day without the internet, my life revolves around it, literally.

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Should I Build A Website? | Infographic

Having an online presence is becoming more and more important these days due to the growing number of people having internet access. A lot more people are now going online to buy goods and services because it’s easy to find lots of different things and compare, it’s also usually cheaper. Check out this infographic and follow the paths to work out whether you need a website.

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What Happens in 1 Minute on the Internet | Infographic

The internet is a massive modern technology in our race. I mean like think about it properly, just imagine all the stuff you couldn’t do if you didn’t have the internet. It’s completely changed everything about our lives. It’s also made us a lot more intelligent because we can find out information about anything nearly instantly because of the internet.

The infographic below shows some astonishing facts of what is happening on the internet in 1 minute. It’s crazy how Facebook receives 6 million views in just one minute. 

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FreshFiber Cassette Case for iPhone 4S

Thanks to MobileFun for sending this product out to me for review.

Check out my other review on the aluminium version of this case – Minimal Case Mate Barely There Case for iPhone

Looking for a case for your kids or you want to let out the inner child in you? FreshFiber have got you covered with this red cassete case for your iPhone. The is the first case I’ve seen from FreshFiber and first impressions aren’t that bad.

First thing I was surprised at was how strong it was. Even though the case feels like it’s made out of some kind of wood, it is rigid. It’s not as rigid as some of the CaseMate ones I’ve reviewed though.

It’s a pain to get on and off though. You really have to push it in, and get your nails under the corners to get it out. I’m sure over time it will wear and become easier to take on and off.

 It’s not very thin, but it won’t add a massive bulge in your pocket. The reason is quite thick is to do with the design.

The design of the case is actually amazing. The little details and layered design really makes it look like an old fashioned cassete. However one thing which really let it down big time was the font, Comic Sans. The designers behind the case must have no idea of typography whatsoever. Comic Sans is the biggest enemy going for people who know a thing or two about typography. It’s a real disappointment which put me off the case a little.

Overall

 Like I said the case is ideal for children or if you want to really give your iPhone a different look. It’s very rigid even though it feels very light. Like most other cases it will protect the rear and sides of your iPhone from bumps and scrapes with ease. The design is fantastic, it’s just a shame that the font really lets it down. 

 

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100 Reasons Why You Should Jailbreak Your iPhone

Many people ask me why they should jailbreak their iPhone and whether it is safe. I mean like I’d be there forever explaining all the benefits, and I’m sure other jailbreakers will agree with me. It’s also completely safe. There’s like 0.0001% you’ll ruin your iPhone – that figure is completely made up, but you know what I mean.

JailbreakMatrix have thankfully put together a video listing 100 reasons why you should jailbreak your iPhone, and it pretty much covers everything. It’s only 3 minutes long so it’s worth watching. I don’t get why they added the awkward girl in it though, very cheesy if you ask me.

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