Happy birthday to Internet

Sept. 2, 1969, when about 20 people gathered in Mr. Kleinrock’s University of California ,Los Angeles (UCLA) lab to watch as two bulky computers passed meaningless test data through a 15-foot gray cable. Was not aware that they are writing a chapter in history.

However The Internet didn’t become a household word until the ’90s, though, after a British physicist, Tim Berners-Lee, invented the Web, a subset of the Internet that makes it easier to link resources across disparate locations. Meanwhile, such service providers as America Online connected millions of people for the first time.

Read full story @  tp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/31/internet-faces-barriers-at-40/

 

 This instance also remind me my first encounter with Internet 10 years ago when my friends in school were very furiously discussing about Dooms day of 31st of dec. ,1999 when world will come to end due to some Y2K problem and we come to know there is something called Internet is responsible for this.

So on 31st of dec. we entered into the cyber café to see what the internet is looks like .one of my friend bring out 20 bucks from his school bag and very vociferously told café in-charge “ show me that Y2K problem “ (He was thinking that he will solve that problem and save the mother earth ….). but the expression of that in-charge and other people sitting in cyber café has given us a clue that he had asked something called ‘stupid question’ .suddenly one of us has rectify it and ask him to teach surfing .

 As we all were in school uniform he thought we can be a cash cow customer for him. he created our yahoo ID and cunningly taught us chatting on yahoo messenger .( maybe he want to keep us away from Y2K ..)

Our first impression for internet was that it is all about chatting with people across the world .when we come out of that cyber café one of my friend very tranquilly told us ‘guys let’s not worried about Y2K , the people on messenger is very nice and they will not bring this world to the end “

My friend who was actually there to solve Y2K problem end up as chat-addict ,he even made the notes of similes and acronym used in chat. After that every day in school he use to talks about his adventure on chat-o-spear.(..He is also now working with one of reputed IT company ),slowly and gradually I also start surfing in this wired world (but even today I am disappointed that we miss the opportunity to solve Y2k ..)

 So what is your story about Internet ???

Cheers

 Anup Tiwari

Facts and figures @ Social networking website.

412.3 YEARS
The length of time it would take to view every YouTube video.

13 HOURS
The amount of video uploaded to YouTube every minute.

100,000,000
The number of YouTube videos viewed per day.

13,000,000
The number of articles available on Wikipedia.

3,600,000,000
The number of photos archived on Flickr.com as of June 2009.
That’s roughly 1 photo per every 2 people on the planet.

1382%
The monthly growth rate of Twitter users from January to February 2009.

3,000,000
The average number of Tweets per day on Twitter.com

5,000,000,000
The number of minutes spent on Facebook each day.

1,000,000,000
The amount of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.)shared each week on Facebook.

5,000,000
The number of active Barack Obama supporters across 15 social networks.

14,200,000
The number of views Obama’s famous “Yes We Can” video got on YouTube.
An additional 15 of the 1,800 official and 139,000 unofficial Obama videos received over 1 Million views.

$6,500,000
The amount of money 3 Million online donors contributed to the 2008 Obama campaign.

IF FACEBOOK WERE A COUNTRY, IT WOULD BE THE 8TH MOST POPULATED IN THE WORLD,JUST AHEAD OF JAPAN.

85% of social media users believe that a company should go further than just having a presence on social sites and should also interact with its customers.

3 Out of 4 Americans use social Technology .

There are 7.1 mn User on orkut and 1.6mn Facebook user in India (till 2008 )

2/3 Of the global Internet population visit Social Networks.

Visiting social site is now the 4th most popular online activity –ahead of personal email

Time spent on social networks is growing at 3X the overall internet rate, Accounting for `10% of all internet time

The top three people on Twitter (Ashton Kutcher, Ellen DeGeneres and Britney Spears) have more combined followers than the entire population of Austria.

It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million listeners.
Terrestrial TV took 13 years to reach 50 million users.
The internet took 4 years to reach 50 million people.
.. In less than 9 months, Facebook added 100 million users.

The online bookmarking service, Delicious, has more than five million users and over 150 million unique bookmarked URLs.

Social networks and blogs are the 4th most popular online activities online, including beating personal email. 67% of global users visit member communities and 10% of all time spent on the internet is on social media sites.

Cheers

Anup Tiwari

Source :
Nielsen, Global Faces & Networked Places, March ,2009
Forrester, The Growth Of Social Technology Adoption, 2008
Mark Zuckerberg, January 7, 2009
Cone, Business in Social Media Study, September 2008

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Questions that one should answer before Writing proposals.

Before starting a proposal, you should be very clear about the purpose of the proposal. It is counterproductive (and costly) to begin writing a proposal until you know your target audience and the precise advantages your product or service can offer them. Having answers to the questions similar to the following is a good way to ensure that you are well prepared.

1. Who is this proposal addressed to i.e. do you have an idea about the business and profile of your customer

2. What are the exact needs of the customer

3. How do you plan to satisfy that need – technologically

4. What would be the rough shape of the solution

5. How would the management and monitoring of the project be achieved

6. How would you ensure good quality of the work

7. Who are the other people who are providing similar service

8. What is it that differentiates your service from theirs

9. How much time would you take for the entire work

10. How much money would you charge the customers

11. What are your assumptions

12. What are your terms and conditions

Digital Media in India …Group M Survey Report.

• The advertisement expenditure (adex) of the digital media, which includes internet and mobile mediums, has increased by 74 per cent to Rs 680 crore in 2008-09,
• The digital media will see a growth of 25 per cent this year as compared with just 7 per cent for TV and a fall to -2 per cent and -4 per cent for newspapers and magazines, respectively.
• Industry players attribute the adex growth to the size of the internet users, price factor, good return on investment and on the accountability of the medium.
• The online user base in India is 45.3 million by September 2008, according to the latest Internet and Mobile Association of India report — 42 million are urban and the remaining 3.3 million rural.
• The ad rates on the internet, compared with other forms of media, play a vital role in increasing the revenue of the segment.
• Industry players predict a good future for the internet medium. it predicts that the sector will see a rapid growth in the next two to three years.
• “Percentages are not important. The internet’s share in the total adex is 15-16 per cent in many Western countries, while in India it is just two or three per cent. That is because we lacked infrastructure which is rapidly picking up and the sector, in the next two three years, will see a boom,”

Snapshot of India Online 2009 Survey Review…..JuxtConsult Research

Key Points:

• There has been a decline of 6% among ‘all’ internet users in India (regular plus occasional internet users in last one year) bringing the users down to 47 million (39 million urban and 8 million rural).
• However, there is a 10% growth in ‘regular’ user base (internet users who use the internet at least once a month) and a 28% growth in ‘daily’ internet users.
• Interestingly, the exclusive cybercafé user base has shrunk to a nominal 6% of all internet users. Office remains to be the place from where internet is accessed the most (68% at ‘multiple’ access point level).
• With regards to language, only 13% internet users prefer to read in English.
• 3 out of 4 internet users come from non-metro towns and nearby villages. However, it is good to hear that 4 out of 5 internet users are in the ‘prime’ of their live (between 19 to 35).
• The top ten online activities include job searches (72%), instant messaging/ chat (68%), check general news (63%), dating/ friendship (56%), Check sports – other than cricket (53%), Check cricket content (53%), English info search engine (50%), matrimonial search (50%), listen/ stream music online (49%), download music (48%). On an average net user undertake 13 activities online (2 less than last year).
• The survey also brings out that 91% net user ‘window shop’ online. 74% of travel buyers have bought train tickets online and 34% air tickets. Credit card is the most popular mode of online payment at 50%.

Social networking in India…. Review of comscore survey

Key Highlights of survey :

• The total number of unique visitors to social networking sites in Indian has increased by 51% in 2008 from the previous year
• Orkut.com is undoubtedly the number one social networking site in India with over 12.8 million visitors in 2008. Orkut has almost more than 8 million visitors than Facebook
• Facebook.com ranks number two with 4 million visitors, up 150% versus a year ago. Orkut on the other hand saw a slower growth rate in comparison to Facebook during the same period with an increase of 81% visitors
• The Indian social networking site Bharatstudent.com captured position three with 3.3 million visitors
• In comparison to other Indian developed social networking sites Bharatstudent.com was the only site which saw an increase in visitors, up by 88%. Both Ibibo.com and Bigadda.com saw a fall of 50% and 25% respectively
• Myspace sites ranked sixth in the study. The site which ranks as one of the top social networking site in United States entered the Indian market in 2008 and had over 7.4 million visitors in 2008, an increase of 110% from 2007.

• An overview of social networking activity in the Asia-Pacific region revealed that Singapore ranked number one in terms of penetration, with more than 74% of its online population visiting a social networking site in December 2008
• Other countries in the region that displayed strong social networking penetration and engagement included Australia (#2), South Korea (#3) and Malaysia (#4)
• India ranked seventh with 60% penetration of its online users visiting a social networking site.

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IT exports resilient but face new threats. An Artical Review

If you are following Indian economy then one article that you should not miss is “SWAMINOMICS” its weekly article published In leading English newspaper Times of India . This article gives you economic review by astute economics Mr. Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar, he makes economic simple and flatter .he has implausible ability to play with number.

In his last article published on 26^th April 27, 2009, he had reviewed Indian IT sector here is brief snapshot of this article .

IT exports resilient but face new threats.

· Even though India’s merchandise exports declined 22% in January and February, Indian IT-enabled services seems too resilient to this recession.

· The US and UK, which are worst hit by the global crisis, account for 81% of India’s exports of computer software and IT enabled services (ITES).

· Early results for Indian IT companies in the January-March quarter suggest only a marginal sales decline over the previous quarter, and substantial growth over the last year.

· NASSCOM, the apex body of the IT industry, makes bold to project export growth of 30% over the next two years.

· In February 2009, US imports of goods fell 33%, but service imports fell only 7%. In that month, US exports of goods fell 21% but service exports fell only 6.5%. A similar pattern shows up for countries across the globe.

· A range of business and professional exports are actually growing. US data show that imports of professional and business services are actually up 7%, and exports up 10%. This lends credence to NASSCOM’s optimism.

Why is IT exports relatively resilient?

First, the global credit crunch has hit manufacturers much harder than service providers. Trade credit dried up for goods after Lehman Brothers collapsed last October, but trade credit for IT exports was little affected.

Electronically-delivered business services need less trade finance than goods shipped by sea.

Manufacturing companies have substantial debt that needs to be rolled over, and this has posed problems to manufacturing companies like Tata Motors and Hindalco.

But IT companies like Infosys and TCS are cash Rich and have no debt at all. Finally, a significant part of IT exports are sales by Indian branches/subsidiaries of MNCs to their parent firms, and this trade is not finance-dependent.

In  Recessions ,unsold inventories of manufactures pile up, forcing production cuts till the inventories are liquidated. But services cannot be stored, and do not suffer inventory-driven collapses of demand.

Consumers can easily postpone the purchase of durable goods like cars, but corporations cannot postpone purchases of outsourced services like book-keeping and call-centres. US companies can indeed postpone purchases of software products, but not of software services that are essential for business.

Finally, NASSCOM hopes the recession will result in even more IT offshoring. In particular, MNCs with existing facilities in India may transfer more work. Borchert and Mattoo find that such intra-corporate purchases have continued growing at 10%, even as purchases from outsiders have declined to almost zero.

However, this happy picture is marred by protectionist threats, such as the Buy America provisions of recent US laws. Back in the technology bust of 2001, states like New Jersey enacted laws to maximize local procurement of IT services, but these had loopholes, rendering them largely ineffective. But the US mood is much nastier now. Sallie Mae, a company managing $180 billion in government-backed student loans, is moving 2,000 jobs from India and the Philippines back to the US, although this will raise its wage costs by $35 million.

Finally, the recession is now certain to become a Great Recession, if not a Great Depression.

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