Here's a great slide from Mary Meeker's Web 2.0 Summit presentation (download at Morgan Stanley) showing the dominance of social networking sites. If you haven't been able to get management to buy off on your social media plans, circulate this slide.
These are the top 10 domains now compared to two years ago as measured by Alexa. The red sites on the left have dropped out of the top 10 giving way to the green sites. Web 2.0-oriented sites can now claim six of the top-10 slots, including four social networks: Facebook, Orkut (Google), Myspace and Hi5, and two user-generated sites: YouTube and Wikipedia.
Also according to Morgan Stanley, worldwide Internet use passed the 1 billion mark early last year, and is estimated to hit 1.3 billion this year. The chart also shows the distribution of Internet users by region. Note the dominance of the red part of the bar, and, no, that's not Republicans, it's Asia/Pacific.

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Thats a great pair of slides, and a great pack - some really interesting info revealed there. I like your line to put in front of management - I'll be doing just that!
Rob at TheBankChannel
Posted by TheBankChannel | October 24, 2007 2:25 PM
Posted on October 24, 2007 14:25
Orkut.com is the online social networking services operated by Google. Here people come into contact with each other and build up relations whether personal or http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?url=www.fortunehotels.in/hotel_kolkata.aspx business.
Posted by social media helps improving alexa ranking? | February 4, 2008 11:36 PM
Posted on February 4, 2008 23:36