According to the ABS, Aussie online stores sold $143 billion worth of goods in the 09/10 financial year. And Gerry Harvey reckons there’s no money in the web…
YouTube is kinda popular. How popular? We put 48 hours of video onto it every minute. Yikes. That’s a lot of cats playing with alligators, Middle East protests, and people covering Kanye on the ukelele.
The Large Hadron Collider is more than just the world’s coolest/most dangerous science experiment — it’s also producing a frankly ridiculous amount of data. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to Geneva, but that’s just peanuts to the LHC.
An interesting consumer spending stat: People upgrade their phones once every 18 months now, up from 16. That’s a curious number, possibly averaging out people who upgrade yearly with people who only upgrade when their mobile phone contract runs out. Otherwise, I can’t see that the majority of folks feel like they need to pay early upgrade fees to get the latest stuff – especially when you’re talking about the mainstream, non-tech folks. [NYT]
This is unbelievable. At an event in the US, Facebook’s head of U.S. agency relations Sarah Personette shared some statistics about Facebook usage. CEO of Buddy Media Michael Lazerow shared the slide, which tells us that over 10 million Australians are active Facebook users, with 66% of them logging in daily. That’s 6.6 million people checking Facebook here every day!
