Mary Meeker, current Venture Capitalist at Kleiner Perkins and former banking analyst at Morgan Stanley, has built her reputation on visionary forward looking views of the Internet. Here’s her latest gem focused on the Mobile Internet. Read, contemplate, and digest. (more…)
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Mary Meeker’s Latest- Top 10 Mobile Trends
Posted in Internet, Silicon Valley, Technology, tagged Internet Trends, Mary Meeker, Top 10 Mobile Trends on February 10, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Today’s Unbelievably Scaling Web
Posted in Internet, Silicon Valley, Technology, tagged Cityville 100 million users, Internet Scale, John Lilly, Mozilla 400 million users, Super Bowl Viewers vs Facebook Users on February 6, 2011| 2 Comments »
Super Bowl XLV just ended, the Green Bay Packers winning a thrilling battle with the Pittsburgh Steelers, 31-25. Its estimated that 110 million TV viewers may have tuned into the game, breaking last year’s 2010 Super Bowl record of 106 million, which eclipsed the previous record from the 1983 finale of Mash.
Now, 110 million viewers is a big number–incredible scale, right? Television, around for a long time, has to be more than the top web properties. (more…)
The Difference between Men and Women from a Commuting Perspective
Posted in Commuting, Silicon Valley, tagged Commuting, Difference between Men and Women, Men and Women differences from a commute perspective, Step on or over Railroad Tracks on October 3, 2010| 2 Comments »
Earlier, I wrote about my experiences using public transportation from the Peninsula to downtown San Francisco, including my Caltrain ride each morning. My Caltrain ride is usually on an express train line, which has 3-4 stops before reaching the city in about 30 minutes, or occasionally, a later, all stops line that takes 45 minutes.
Now, among all of the 10 stops between, Hillsdale and the end of the line in San Francisco, there is only 1 stop (South San Francisco) where passengers upon departing the train, will have to cross the tracks to reach the platform.
From where I’m sitting on the train at that stop, I’ve noticed that there are some differences in how various people approach those tracks:
- Some people will step on the tracks to propel themselves to the platform.
- Others will step over the tracks and then step on to the platform. (more…)
The 31 Most Innovative Startups- World Economic Forum’s 2011 Technology Pioneer winners
Posted in Internet, Silicon Valley, Startups, Technology, tagged Aster Data, Davos, Foursquare, Medicine in Need, Opower, Spotify, Technology Pioneer Programme, World Economic Forum on September 11, 2010| 1 Comment »
This week the World Economic Forum, an independent, not-for-profit international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging leaders in partnerships to shape global, regional and industry agendas. Per their website, the Technology Pioneers programme is the World Economic Forum’s way of identifying and integrating those companies – normally in a start-up phase or in their first rounds of financing – from around the world that are involved in the design and development of new technologies. The innovations of these companies reflect society’s attempts to harness, adapt and use technology to change and improve the way business and society operate.
Each year, approximately 30 are recognized as Technology Pioneers in three categories: (more…)
Mobile Applications- 157 fascinating stats about the Past, Present, and the Future
Posted in Internet, Silicon Valley, Technology, tagged 157 Mobile Application stats, Android App Store, Data about App Stores, Iphone App Store Data, Mobile Applications, Mobile Entertainment on August 21, 2010| Leave a Comment »
As I’ve written in this blog a few times, like many, I’ve become an addicted smart phone user. In this post, I laid out my iPhone App storage usage patterns vs the average usage patterns, and raised some questions about the future growth and characteristics of users of these platforms.
Now, I’ve come across some even more robust external data from the site Mobile Entertainment (ME) sets analyzing App usage of different smartphones which provide some further insight into the questions I raised in that previous post. Embedded below is a presentation with 157 Mobile App stats that ME has released and says we should all know about. Some fascinating data here. (more…)
Yahoo!, Twitter, and the World Cup
Posted in Internet, Silicon Valley, Social Media, Sports, tagged #fifa, #worldcup, #worldcup2010, Grant Wahl and Twitter, Twitter's impact to the World Cup, Working at Yahoo!, World Cup 2010, World Cup and Twitter, World Cup and Yahoo! on June 12, 2010| 2 Comments »
Yesterday, the 2010 World Cup in South Africa began.
As I write this, I’m eagerly awaiting the US-England match later this morning. Some are calling the match the most eagerly awaited match in the history of US soccer. For me, the World Cup spectacle held every 4 years is one of the best of all sporting events; it combines fantastic skill, unbelievable passion and energy from the fans of the teams, globalization and a common them that people around the world can rally around, tradition and history that fans cling to, and opportunity for late game drama. The 2002 run for the US team was one of my favorite sporting moments of the 2000’s, as I documented here.
As I think back to the last World Cup in 2006 and the current one in 2010, I also think about two Internet and social media companies—Yahoo! and Twitter. (more…)
Academic Globalization- The Emergence of International Universities
Posted in Education, Globalization, Silicon Valley, tagged Academic Globalization, Ben Wildavsky, Global Mobility in Higher Education, How Global Universities are Reshaping the World, IIT Mumbai, International Universiities, KAUST, The Great Brain Race, The Race between Education and Technology on May 15, 2010| Leave a Comment »
This week I attended a World Affairs council lecture titled Academic Globalization- How International Universities are Reshaping the World. Author Ben Wildavsky, former Education Editor for US News & World Report and currently a fellow at the Ewing Marion Kaufmann Foundation, discussed his recent book titled, The Great Brain Race, How Global Universities are Reshaping the World.
The focus of the discussion was around the increasing globalization of higher education. Wildavsky focused on three themes:
- Unprecedented Academic Mobility
- Race to create world-class universities
- Emergence of global college rankings (more…)
My Iphone AppStore Usage vs the Average
Posted in Internet, Silicon Valley, Technology, tagged AppStore, Average Iphone Apps Downloaded, Average IPhone User, IPad, IPhone, Twitter reaction to iPad on April 4, 2010| 3 Comments »
Today was the launch of iPad. Hype, hysteria, and over-hype ensued during the day. Twitter streams were inundated with tweets mostly glowing about the Ipad, but others expressing frustration with the invasion of Twitterland by iPad.
However, I personally am not yet ready to purchase an iPad, I’m still occupied by the iPhone– still discovering it and delving into new usage models. (more…)
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