Active Facebook users by region: November, 2010
With Facebook unveiling an integrated messaging system for its more than 500 million users, I decided to update a few charts that breakdown its users by region.
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Ben Lorica
Ben Lorica is a Senior Analyst in the Research Group at O'Reilly Media, Inc.. He has applied Business Intelligence, Data Mining and Statistical Analysis in a variety of settings including Direct Marketing, Consumer and Market Research, Targeted Advertising, Text Mining, and Financial Engineering. His background includes stints with an investment management company, internet startups, and financial services. At O'Reilly, Ben works on custom research and consulting projects, open source data warehousing and analytics. Hiring trends among the major platform playersThe battle for the Internet's points of control requires amassing talent.
Consistent with the recent flurry of articles about hiring wars, many platform companies have increased their number of job postings. Winning the battle for the Internet's points of control requires amassing talent.
Windows Mobile apps are more expensive than iPhone appsThe mean app price for the Windows market is nearly two times higher than the App Store.
The Windows Marketplace for Mobile now has about 1,400 apps spread across 16 categories. In this short post I'll provide some basic statistics and compare it with the grandaddy of app stores: the U.S. iTunes store.
Crowdsourcing specific microtasks
Since the first-ever Mechanical Turk meetup a year ago, there has been an explosion in crowdsourcing services and a well-attended conference in San Francisco. I remain enthusiastic about crowdsourcing, but the number of companies has me worried about quality of work. Fortunately specialization is already occurring, so for particular tasks there are companies out there ready to provide high-quality service....
Amazon's cloud platform still the largest, but others are closing the gap
Measured in terms of (U.S.) job postings, Amazon's Cloud Computing platform is still larger than Google's App Engine. What's interesting is that the gap has closed over the past year.
The number of Hadoop jobs continue to rise
While still a small fraction of data management job postings, the number of job posts that mention "hadoop" continue to grow steadily. Year-over-year, there were 300% more such job posts in the first seven months of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009. The fraction of "hadoop" jobs posted by California companies remain high, but is definitely lower than what it was last year.
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