Subscriber Wars is a website that lets you discover who are the most subscribed users of popular social media services such as social networking juggernaut Facebook, San Francisco-based micro-blogging platform Twitter, and video-sharing platform YouTube.
On the homepage, it displays the top five most followed/subscribed profiles on each social media site, including a complete ranking of the most subscribed users on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook. Besides that, there is also a section that features the latest tweets and videos from the social media leaders.
According to a note sent by Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner to clients on Wednesday morning, the California-based tech giant is gearing up to launch the tablet, which comes with a 10.1-inch LCD display using the iPhone's LTPS LCD technology, between March and April 2010. An estimated of 1-1.5 million units will be sold at an average price of US$1,000.
If you want get one of those, you'd have start saving up your pennies. But seriously, no one will burn a hole in his/her pocket to purchase this wildly overpriced gadget, except for those crazy Apple fanboys. I believe the folks at Apple plan to squeeze every ounce of profit margin from early adopters, and then reduce the price after a few generations of Apple Tablet. I think people will still purchase the tablet, even though it will carry a price tag two times higher than its arch-rival JooJoo (formerly known as Crunchpad), because of the Apple brand.
Google has already monopolized the world wide web, leading in several markets such as search, email (Gmail), mapping (Google Maps/Earth/Street View) and video (YouTube). However, it has yet to dominate the social web, with Orkut far behind social networking juggernauts - Facebook, MySpace, and Hi5. If Sergey Brin and Larry Page are 'sick and tired' of its online business, maybe they would consider venturing out to other non-tech-related businesses, and grab a slice of the pie in the the auto, airline, or even the entertainment industry.
The world Internet usage is growing at an exponential rate, especially in developing countries such as India and China. In December 31, 2000, there were just 361 million people surfing the world wide web. And within just 9 years, the figure has grown nearly fourfold to a staggering 1.73 billion Internet users, according to the Internet World State. In other words, 25.6% of the world population (6.77 billion) is connected to the Internet.
So have you ever wondered how many billions of activities (be it social or not) are going on every day on the Internet, even as you're reading this? Well, the folks at the OnlineEducation have gathered information from various sources, and designed an impressive infographic, which features a few statistics for an average day on the Internet.
"I went to buy some black ink for my printer today. I decided to see how much the ink for the new printer would cost. Then I realized that it would be cheaper to just buy a new printer that already comes together with black and color ink...Then I remembered why I have 3 other printers sitting at home without ink...It's cheaper to buy a new printer than to buy new ink."
