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Almost 25 Percent of US Internet Users Accessing Internet through Mobile

williams — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:33:05 +0000

The number of visitors using mobile devices shot up to 56.9 million from 42.5 million with 34 percent growth rate year after year. The total number of Internet users in US was 227.7 million. Therefore, almost 25 percent of Internet users in US are accessing Internet through mobile. Men were still dominating the user market, which accounted for 53 percent of user market with 26 percent year after year growth rate. Women accounted for 47 percent of user market with 43 percent year after year growth rate. Year after year, growth rate was high for women as compared to men. Still in other forms of Internet technology, more men were early-adopters of the mobile Web and holding a slightly larger market share than women. (Source: Nielsen reports July’09)

In recent times, we have seen that the mobile industry is on a fast track, with huge growth in mobile marketing and advertising. While smartphone ownership was once just a business tool, more consumers than ever are using smartphones in their everyday lives. According to wikipedia, a smartphone is a mobile phone offering advanced capabilities, often with personal computer. Smartphone usage is shifting from purely business use to both personal and business use. Owners are still more than two times likely to own a smartphone for business usage only. In the past year alone, the total number of smartphone subscribers increased by 72 percent quarter after quarter, growing from 15 million subscribers in Q2 2008 to 26 million in Q2 2009. According to the Nielsen report, although the penetration level of smartphone users is still fairly low which is nearly 17 percent in Q2 2009, they make up half of the mobile Web audience. Italy tops the list of smart phone adoption while US comes on 3rd spot.

According to the overall Nielsen report, year after year the mobile usage growth rate in 13-17 age group increased by 45 percent, in 18-24 age group it increased by 13 percent, in 25-34 age group people it increased by 40 percent, in 35-54 age group people it increased by 31 percent, in 55-64 age group people it increased by 37 percent, in 65+ age group people it increased by 65 percent for July’09. Senior people recorded more growth rate for web usage through mobiles than any other age group people.

Women were busy in celebrity news to online shopping during their mobile web usage in July’09 period. People.com and AT&T Search were most likely to be visited by women in July’09 period. Men were busy with news, sports, and online games. Most of them visited Gizmodo, a technology website in July’09 period.

More Americans than ever before are buying smartphones and using mobile data services like text messaging, games, email, mobile Internet, video, and ring tones according to the Nielsen company. Teen age people in their usage of mobile phones focuses heavily on text messaging, both sending and receiving. In Q2’09 period, the top-ranked mobile activity for teens was messaging, with 84 percent of teens sending a text message, 55 percent sending a picture message, 44 percent downloading the ring tones, 30 percent using emails, and 27 percent teens downloading the games according to the Nielsen research report.

From overall research report in July’09, the web usage through mobile devices has grown rapidly year after year.

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Great Gift Ideas for Christmas

jackielee — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:35:45 +0000

Christmas is just around the corner and it’s time to start figuring out what you’re going to get for your friends and loved ones. If you start buying now you won’t find yourself running around like a chicken with your head cut off in a couple months on Christmas eve.

For the kitchen:

If you have a coffee lover in your inner circle help them save money by breaking their Starbucks addiction! They can make their own coffee ~ better than Starbucks for WAY cheaper with a Delonghi Espresso machine.

If you have an “eco friendly” person in your life a great gift for them would be the hot pot solar cooker. They can use the power of the sun to cook up a fantastic meal. This is a great idea for the environmentally conscious in your inner circle. They will be super pleased you took into consideration their beliefs and you might even get a free meal out of it!

If they’re not too worried about using electricity a new electric downdraft cooktop would be a great idea. This cooktop keeps all the smoke, and smells out of the air by pulling them all into the downdraft. No more big grease hood ~ perfect for center island cooktops!!

For the movie lover:

Do you have a Twilight fan in your midst? There is all kind of Twilight memorabilia coming out now, and a Twilight jewelry set is a great gift. Each set comes with each piece of the Cullen crest as seen in the movie.

For the crafter:

If you have someone who likes to sew, whether it’s clothes or quilts a new sewing machine would be a great idea. The Euro pro sewing machine is a great machine no matter what they are sewing. It will sew through 5 layers of denim, has tons of different stitches as well as 1 touch button hole creation. It’s a great machine for new and seasoned sewers alike.

Is your crafter more into scrapbooking than sewing? Scrapbookers are always looking for better/easier ways to create beautiful pages. The Cricut 29 0001 personal electronic cutting machine can create full titles, shapes and tons of other things to make their pages unique ~ they can use it for more than just creating pages too. It can create gift bags and other neat things as well.

For the outdoor lover:

If you have a cyclist you need to buy for a great idea for a christmas gift is a saris t rax bike rack. It’s a great way to let them take their cycling adventures a little farther from home ~ or even on vacation with them. A quality bike rack makes cycling all the more fun.

What about the water lover? How about an Advanced elements advancedframe inflatable kayak. Great for city dwellers, and apartment dwellers alike. It’s easy to inflate, takes up little storage space, can fit in the trunk, so no additional rack is needed ~ AND it tracks as well as a hard shelled kayak! If you have someone who likes kayaking or wants to try it out this is a great gift idea.

Don’t forget no matter what outdoor sport your friends and family are in to they HAVE to stay hydrated. A water backpack can make staying hydrated a piece of cake!

Part of the fun of doing outside activities is being able to capture the moment, now you can do that with a regular camera, and a regular lens or you can look at things from a different perspective with a canon 15mm fisheye lens.

After a long hard day playing/working outside your friends may experience some back pain. If this is the case they may find that using inversion therapy will help alleviate the pain. This goes for those weekend warriors as well as people who have back pain for other reason. The Ironman Gravity 4000 Inversion table and the Teeter Hang Ups f5000 inversion table are both great options when you want to get started with inversion therapy.

For the young and young at heart:

Last but not least, you’ve probably got some young or young at heart people on your shopping list. If you do why not get them an XPV Super Terranator RC vehicle? It’s got tons of power, can go through just about any terrain, including mud, snow, grass and even water! They’ll have tons of fun and be outside and out from under your feet!

There you have some great gift ideas for Christmas, no matter who you’re buying for!

Top 5 Christmas Gifts for Sports Enthusiasts

Kelly de Borda — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:00:21 +0000

Christmas is creeping up on us once more, and that means there are a lot of people who are going to be frantically searching for the perfect gift. If you have an active sports enthusiast on your Christmas shopping list, this list of popular gifts may have the solution to your problem. From golfers to cyclists to snowboarders, we’ve got the perfect gift.

1) Bike riding has become popular for exercise, but when the cold weather hits, it can be a problem. Icy roads, inattentive drivers and freezing rain can dampen anyone’s enthusiasm for getting out on their bike. If this is a problem for someone on your Christmas list, then the CycleOps Fluid 2 Indoor Bicycle Trainer is the solution. The CycleOps Fluid 2 attaches to your regular bicycle, turning it into a functional, comfortable stationary bike that you can ride in the comfort of your own home. It’s less expensive than a conventional stationary bike, and allows the cyclist to maintain their regular balance and position because they’re using their own bike. And, it brings them inside off the frozen winter roads, into the comfort of their own home.

2) Every golfer is looking to shave strokes off their game. For the best drive, it’s important to choose the correct club for the distance. That’s where a good pinfinder comes in – measuring the distance from the tee to the flag. And the Bushnell Golf Pinseeker 1500 Tournament Edition Laser Rangefinder is one of the best ones out there. It features digital technology that allows ranges of up to 1,500 yards, and is accurate to within 1 yard at that distance. It’s truly the perfect Christmas gift for any golfer on your list.

3) Is someone on your list an avid traveler, hiker, or camper? Do you have a loved one who is always on the go? I’m sure they know that getting lost is no fun – especially if you’re miles away from someone who can give you directions. That’s why the Garmin GPS 60CSx Handheld GPS Navigator makes such a great Christmas present for anyone who loves to travel! With the Garmin GPS 60CSx, they’ll always know where they are and how to get to where they’re going. It’s also the perfect gift for the family who enjoys geocaching.

4) For the rugged outdoorsman (or the weekend warrior) traveling light is always best. That’s why the Casio Men’s Pathfinder Multi-band Solar Atomic Ultimate Watch makes such a great Christmas gift for the man on the go – it features an altimeter, barometer, calendar, tide charts, thermometer and more, all in an attractive and rugged watch. With Atomic timekeeping and Solar powered battery, he’ll never have to worry about losing track of the time.

5) No one likes frozen rain in their face, and the wind in your eyes while going downhill at high speed is no fun either. Whether snowboarding or skiing, downhill or cross-country, good eye protection can mean the difference between a fun day on the slopes or a miserable day in the cold. If you know someone who enjoys wintersports, customizable Bolle Quasar Goggles are a perfect Christmas gift choice.

Facebook Proxy

harrismiller — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:54:11 +0000

We’ve always wanted to make money anywhere, anytime and Facebook can be a good deal of source for that matter. With its huge network of users, you can easily market your product with minimal to zero cost. But this money making strategy can be hampered when facebook is actually blocked by your system administrator. This is very common to schools and establishments, but this does not mean that you’ll have to quit your quest to make big bucks, you can always reactivate facebook with the help of a Facebook Proxy anytime you want and continue with your strategy. Now, talking about strategy, let me give you a short background of facebook and how this money making business will apply.

A lot of people online want to know how to use Facebook for marketing and advertising. Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites with over 250 million users who actively use it. Stats show that an average user on Facebook has nearly 125 buddies. Even though there are other competitive social networking sites, Facebook strives to have its own loyal users all over the world. Since there is so much traffic on this website, a lot can be done to make use of it to earn income. Hence, Facebook stands to be one of the best platforms to not only market but also to sell the products and generate good income.

In order to use Facebook for marketing and advertising to earn income, one should make sure that he or she has a good and an active profile that will be only used to market products and nothing else. Hence, it is advisable to make use of a new profile rather than using your regular Facebook profile. One of the most preferred ways of advertising any product on Facebook is to run ads. These ads can be used to target relevant users by age, education and geographic location. However, these ads do not come for cheap.

This is a known tendency that people usually buy from those people whom they now. Hence it is very important to market your products properly. The key is providing the users with the products and services on Facebook by marketing and advertising. This way you can earn when ads show up on Facebook or when there is sale of any products or services. One of the best ways to promote any products online is through affiliate marketing. The online merchants may ask people who own websites or blog to advertise or promote his products. After this, the person who has a blog or a website places an ad about the products and services offered by the online merchant. If there is any sale, the blog or website owner gets commission.
Like affiliate marketing, two-tier affiliate marketing is also one of the best ways to earn income steadily. Two-tier affiliate marketing can significantly improve the business of the online merchant. He not only gets increased traffic but also finds increase in the sales. Here is how it works. All you need to do is to affiliate with an online merchant.

The next step is to introduce more affiliates to the online merchant who are not direct affiliate but are sub-affiliates under you. You can then earn through the commission that is produced when there is any sales done by any of your sub-affiliates. The more sub-affiliates you introduce, the higher profits online merchants will make and more you will earn through the commissions.

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5 Reasons Why WordPress is Great

Derick-Schaefer — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:43:59 +0000

Though its development roots go back to 2001, per WordPress.Org , “WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes.” What is significant about WordPress is that it was developed in the spirit of writing versus software development.

Though I’m not writing as one of those early contribors or authors who used WordPress back before it supported elements as simple as themes, I have been an avid user of WordPress over the past couple of years and I thought I’d take write about an enabler of writing.

Five Reasons Why WordPress Is Great

Low Barrier of Entry – Whether your goal is a simple blog or a complex content management system, WordPress is accessible to all. First of all, being licensed under the GPL, WordPress is free. However, free software doesn’t mean that it is accessible. One of the challenges with “open source software” is that it is really only accessible to developers. WordPress is accessible to writers! With powerhouse companies such as GoDaddy wrapping domains, hosting, and wizard based install routines around WordPress, anyone can be writing on the Internet in 1 hour for less than a round of beer.

Plug and Play – The WordPress architecture supports the addition of custom functionality through plugins. Plugins are individual software programs adding specialized features and functions to WordPress. Plugins are desiged by developers around the world. Whether you are interested in making your installation of WordPress more accessible to search engines or publishing your audio files to iTunes, there is a plugin for everyone. WordPress plugins are litterally plug and play (both to install and maintain). WordPress is great; plugins make it flat out powerful. Unlike getting a printer to work on Windows Vista, “plug and play” with WordPress plugins just works!

Search Engine Friendly - In general, content management systems (CMS) are a disaster with search engines. If you talk to SEO’ers, they constantly struggle with how search engines handle the expensive CMS’s their clients have implemented. WordPress is very friendly with search engines right out of the box. With the addition of a few plugins like All-In-One-SEO, Platinum SEO, and Google XML Sitemap Generators, your installation of WordPress will become Google’s best friend (swicthing to Permalinks in WordPress settings is also recommended).

Themes and More Themes – Since version 1.5, WordPress has supported themes. Themes are templates that are built for WordPress giving it a unique look and feel. Whether you are interested in the “hot off the press” Google Chrome Theme or the off the wall Desk Mess Theme. The best part about themes is that they are completely decoupled from your content allowing you to change themes without fear of loosing your information.

Bill Gates Can’t Get In Your Way – There is nothing more frustrating than an upgrade from one of the software powerhouses that causes you to have to upgrade or else everything breaks. WordPress is built on a three part architecture that keeps people honest. The first is the WordPress engine. It is an OpenSource project created by a diverse group of developers with a simple mission of creating great software. The second are Themes. WordPress Themes are developed by thousands of independent designers who do not have anything to do with the actual engine. Last, are Plugins. Like WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins are the result of independent developers. These three communities keep each other in check as the project can’t be successful if any one group makes radical changes that alienates the others work. In commercial software companies, it doesn’t work like this. Yes, WordPress has had its problems but they get fixed by the community. As far as Bill Gates goes, he still does own the majority of the browser market share. We’ll see if Google changes that in the next few years.

To conclude, WordPress is great for writers, software designers/developers, and the Internet overall.

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