One of the things I like best about being connected on the internet is following links to all sorts of interesting things. Sometimes I discover blog articles, YouTube clips, art or music sites, political media, food articles…It’s an interesting world out there, and I know I’m only exploring a tiny fraction of it.

Here are some of the recent interesting things I’ve found:

From @FranchiseKing: “Here’s what a TRILLION dollars looks like” at PageTutor.com. WOW!

From Gary Price’s Resource Shelf Newsletter: This week’s issue was all about statistics, and I found A Collection of Social Network Stats for 2009 especially interesting from the blog Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang. Here’s some highlights:

  • Nielsen Online shows that Social networks and blogs are now the 4th most popular online activity ahead of personal email, Member communities are visited by 67% of the global online population, time spent is growing at 3 times the overall internet rate, accounting for almost 10% of all internet time, PDF, Nielsen Online, March
  • 150 million people around the world are now actively using Facebook and almost half of them are using Facebook every day. This includes people in every continent—even Antarctica. If Facebook were a country, it would be the eighth most populated in the world, just ahead of Japan, Russia and Nigeria. Facebook is used in more than 35 different languages and 170 countries and territories. Source: Mark Zuckerberg, Jan 7, 2009
  • 175mm users, with 600k daily growth of users, with the fastest growing segment “45% of Facebook’s US audience is now 26 years old or older.” Inside Facebook, Feb 15th, 2009.
  • On LinkedIn: “The site’s traffic is up in the recession. It hit 36 million members last Monday and is adding them at a rate of about one member per second. According to ComScore, it’s gone from about 3.6 million unique monthly visitors a year ago to 7.7 million today, Adage, March 2
  • According to Compete, the growth rate for Twitter was 752%, for a total of 4.43 million unique visitors in December 2008, in the start of 2008, Twitter had only around 500,000 unique monthly visitors. Source: Mashable/Compete, Jan 9, 2009
  • Demographics of Twitter: Lots of stats here: 11% of online adults use Twitter or update their status online
  • Comscore data shows that “In February, 4 million people in the U.S. visited the site, up from 2.6 million the month before, according to the latest data from comScore. That represents a 55 percent month-over-month growth rate, compared to 33 percent growth in each of the two months prior.” Comscore, March

And this last item is just too cute! From @Amy2boys on Twitter “This is not my kid or my dog, but I had to pass it along!” Check it out.

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