Report: 60% of Saudis share everything on social networks
Foundation published KPCB a detailed report on Internet trends coming through interventions at the D11 The report highlights a number of important issues such as the growth network rates and share content such as images, video, audio and data, and also smart phones and computers tablet and new forms of technology wearable and leadership and even aviation.
And beginning with the overall rate of growth of Internet users where he entered the 902 million user completely new to the Internet during the period between 2008 and 2012, bringing the number of Internet users (GDP) in the world to 2,406 billion people means an annual growth of 8%, but the majority of this growth coming from emerging countries .
We note the control of U.S. companies on the overall traffic, where companies such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Amazon and other controls on the first centers of the most visited sites, and the majority of visitors to those sites from outside the United States.
For the content published on the network, it has become interdependent more with some of what is easily accessible via the search, as rates rose share content with others and the reference to them in which rose this rate nine times during the five years only, and is expected to reach the size of digital content on the Internet the originator and co by 2015 to slightly less than 8 zettabyte (1 zettabyte the = more than 1 trillion gigabytes)
The detail of the content in this co-publication, according to its kind, for example, shared on Facebook every day about 300 million million a picture, and this rate is growing twice annually and note the rapid rise by post the pictures on Facebook after the founding of the site.
As for the video are up 100 hours of video every minute to YouTube, compared to 7 hours per minute in 2007, then the rate increased to 20 hours per minute by mid-2009, and in 2010 the rate increased almost doubled to more than 45 hours in the middle of the year 2011, but the biggest growth was in the past year where the loading rate increased from 70 hours per minute to 100 hours per minute.
And the sound it is raised to 11 hours of music and podcasts and audio clips every minute to serve soundcloud.
There is growth doubled in users of map data on the application of waze, where she works applications maps and navigation like waze to establish a relationship with the benefit of a common exchange between all users by helping each other to identify the state of the roads, as there are more than a billion miles of roads by the users waze explored.
We recall that Facebook had halted negotiations possession that had been initiated with the company emerging Israeli waze.
And social networks have emerged some serious indicators, where there is a decline in the rate of use of Facebook between 2011 and 2012 while he was a significant growth in the use of YouTube and Google Plus and Instagram and Templar.
Among the most important statistics that relate to the Middle East said 61% of the respondents in Saudi Arabia, they share almost everything, or the most important things on the social networks and Internet sites, reflecting the openness, the highest rate recorded, while there are a number of countries, including the United States participates users things about themselves and their lives less than the global average.
The report said that the number of Facebook users has become today's 1.1 billion active users, 68% of them communicate via smartphones and 60% of them who logs on at least once a day, and there are an average of 200 friends each user.
An analysis of returns Facebook ads growth was about 83% in the second quarter of 2011, but this growth fell to levels of 43% per year, but at the same time I started Facebook check returns from the platform smart phones where the check is now 30% of its revenue from this rostrum.
And is certain that the next direction of computing is moving more towards smart phones is expected to increase the number of smart phone users than 1.5 billion user to more than 5 billion mobile phone users by the end of this year
As for the smart phone manufacturers note rising market share for Samsung by 7-fold over two years to jump from 4% to 29%, while the rise in the share of Apple's slow moving from 16% to 22%, in the period between the beginning of 2010 and the end of the 2012.
And talk about smart phones leads us to talk about computers tablet, where we note that the growth of sales of the iPad was three times the sales growth of the iPhone, and this reflects a big trend globally towards the acquisition of hardware computing smaller than desktops to facilitate the process of movement, comparing global shipments of desktops and computers Notebook and tablet computers, we find tremendous rapid jump in the latter to reach the levels of shipments of desktops in spite of the short life.
And technology is one of the most change sectors, where computing has moved from the giant computers in the sixties to reach wearable computing in the current era and the passing PC personal and search engines, smart phones and tablet computers.
These new forms of technology may take the shape of the car self-driving like a car Google, the technology involved in modern cars such as maps and navigation, and technology plane and in small aircraft controlled remotely and carrying technique geographical positioning GPS and can be used in several areas, and technology survey symbols like barcode and QR can find a myriad of uses such advanced technology, including mobile include access codes and promotional offers and e-payment,
