Mary Meeker's Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco: Ten Questions Internet Execs Should Ask & Answer - Presentation from Web 2.0 Summit.

Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn gave a very interesting talk at SXSWi this year. He spoke on a number of topics including his vision for the next wave of Internet growth, Web 3.0. He also outlined his Ten rules fo Entrepreneurs.

Interesting data out from Nielsen Co. today on average US web usage last month. The average person goes online about 50 times a month and visits about 100 domains.

Email, Instant Messengers, Portals and Social Networking sites show that there are slight differences between age groups. The younger generation aged 15-34 are increasingly shifting their online activity to social networking (+32 percent) whereas the older population, above the age of 35, are experimenting with social networking but also embracing the comfort of traditional email (+6 percent).

Source ComScore Data Mine

Mary Meeker's presentation from 2/10/11.

Paul Taylor and Wendy Wang of the Pew Research Center on Social & Demographic Trends released an interesting report on 19 August 2010 entitled "The Fading Glory of the Television and Telephone". Accordingly, the television and landline phone have seen a steep drop in public perception rates among US households. Given the predominant role each of these devices have traditionally played, this is a significant development.

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