This FastCompany Magazine (one of my favorite magazines by the way) video discusses Voodoo Donuts in Portland, OR as well as Zipcar which are two business who have been able to stand out in a crowded marketplace.

Source: http://gizmodo.com/

Photo by Ed McCulloch

I enjoyed the Inc. Magazine article on Josh James, one of Omniture’s co founders who “says he has no special love for technology. But he has long seen its possibilities. In 1996, he and a college classmate launched a webpage-building service when businesses were just discovering the Internet. Fueled by tens of millions in venture backing, James built Omniture, based in Orem, Utah, into a thriving Web analytics and online marketing company whose software tracks Web traffic for companies such as Toyota, Gap, and JetBlue. James took Omniture public on his 33rd birthday, in 2006. Last October, Adobe purchased the company for $1.8 billion.”  >> Read the full article

Cute commercial and very creative if you haven’t seen it yet.

This website has a great 360 degree view of Sydney, Australia.

The video goes quick so I jotted down the numbers below for us to analyze.  Here are some interesting facts about the state of the Internet:

• 1.73 billion – Internet users worldwide (September 2009)
  • 738,257,230 in Asia
  • 418,209,796 in Europe
  • 67,371,700 in Africa
  • 20,371,700 in Oceania / Australia
  • 179,031,479 in Latin America / Caribbean
  • 252,908,000 in North America
• 90 trillion emails sent on the Internet in 2009
• 247 billion is the average number of emails per day, 200 billion of those emails are SPAM (81%)
• 1.4 billion email users worldwide
• 234 million websites as of December 2009
• 126 million blogs on the Internet
• 84% – Percentage of social network sites with more women than men
• 27.3 million tweets per day on Twitter (November, 2009)
• Ashton Kutcher has 4.25 million followers on Twitter (@aplusk)
• Facebook serves up 260 billion page views per month (6 million page views per minute and 37.4 trillion page views in a year)
  • Page Views per month
    • Facebook 260 billion
    • MySpcae 24 billion
    • Twitter 4.4 billion
    • LinkedIn 1.9 billion
  • Facebook needs as many as 30,000 servers to run the site
  • 350 million people on Facebook
  • 2.5 billion photos uploaded each month to Facebook (about 30 billion a year)
  • There are 4 billion photos hosted on Flickr (October 2009)
  • YouTube serves up 12.2 billion videos per month in the US
  • Hulu serves up 924 million per month in the US
  • The average person watches 182 videos per month on the Internet in the US (82% of us)
  • 148,000 new zombie computers created per day
  • 2.6 million malicious code threats at the start of 2009 (viruses, trojans, etc)

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