Like Hell Facebook Is Killing Google
Three Social Thunderstorms
George Colony, CEO of Forrester, created a controversy by predicting a “post-social web” that will see social web applications evolve to deliver “more efficient, easier to use, higher value-to-time ratios”
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4G marches on – LTE soon to reach majority of world’s population
Around 13% of the world’s population live in countries where there are already running LTE implementations or where LTE is being deployed.
Another 41% of the population live in countries where LTE is in trials, including countries like China and India.
Finally, another 24% of the world’s population are awaiting LTE, with planned or launch to be decided status on LTE in their countries.
Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies
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The UN predicts the world’s population explosion
With the population hitting 7bn this month Spanish design house Bestiaro’s has produced this visualisation of the UN population data for us using its Impure design language.
Doing Business 2012
This year’s report data cover regulations measured from June 2010 through May 2011. The report rankings on ease of doing business have expanded to include indicators on getting electricity. The report finds that getting an electrical connection is most efficient in Iceland; Germany; Taiwan, China; Hong Kong SAR, China; and Singapore.
Key findings:
Morocco improved its business regulation the most compared to other global economies, climbing 21 places to 94, by simplifying the construction permitting process, easing the administrative burden of tax compliance, and providing greater protections to minority shareholders. Since 2005, Morocco has implemented 15 business regulatory reforms.
Besides Morocco, 11 other economies are recognized as having the most improved ease of doing business across several areas of regulation as measured by the report: Moldova, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Latvia, Cape Verde, Sierra Leone, Burundi, the Solomon Islands, the Republic of Korea, Armenia, and Colombia.
The Republic of Korea was a new entrant to the top 10. Governments in 125 economies out of 183 measured implemented a total of 245 business regulatory reforms—13 percent more reforms than in the previous year.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, a record 36 out of 46 economies improved business regulations this year.
Over the past six years, 163 economies have made their regulatory environment more business-friendly. China, India, and the Russian Federation are among the 30 economies that improved the most over time.
Singapore led on the overall ease of doing business, followed by Hong Kong SAR, China; New Zealand; the United States; and Denmark.
Ten Technology Trends That Will Change the World in Ten Years
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KPCB Internet Trends (2011)
The Most Disruptive Companies in Tech
Focus has pulled together an infographic on the most disruptive companies in tech. It should come as little surprise that many of the innovations are cloud-powered, or cloud-dependent.
Consider the iPad, for instance. Apple’s the clear leader in the tablet market, and eating away at the traditional computing market. Apple owns more than 68% of the tablet market, and is replacing laptops, e-readers and handheld games.
What’s that got to do with cloud? Plenty. The iPad depends on cloud services to power its most popular native apps, not to mention all the Webapps that users hit up on the iPad.
Focus also highlights Netflix. Despite its recent PR and marketing blunders, Netflix has grown to a $9.1 billion market cap – in no small part due to its streaming service. They should pay attention to subscribers woes, though. According to Focus, they’ve lost 1.6 million subscribers since June.
Finally, there’s music service Pandora. The company claims 100 million registered users, and a valuation of $1.3 billion. Radio, on the other hand, has pretty much peaked. I’m betting the ReadWriteCloud readership can think of plenty more tech disruption where that came from.
(Source: readwriteweb.com)
The iPhone Actually Has No Competition Where It Matters Most
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Bruce Aylward: How we’ll stop polio for good
Polio is almost completely eradicated. But as Bruce Aylward says: Almost isn’t good enough with a disease this terrifying. Aylward lays out the plan to continue the scientific miracle that ended polio in most of the world — and to snuff it out everywhere, forever.
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Zynga Partners With Tencent To Launch Localized Chinese Version Of CityVille
The countries Facebook has left to conquer
- Facebook has conquered “the west” almost entirely, as well we South-East Asia and Oceania/Australia.
- Since it’s blocked in China, Facebook has pretty much zero market penetration in the world’s largest online market.
- Facebook is still weak in Japan, which is also one of the world’s largest online markets.
- Facebook is significantly less popular in much of Eastern Europe and Russia than in the rest of Europe.
