"hard numbers" entries
ETech: Tutorials
Every once in a while Brady sends around the ETech tutorial signup numbers and we scratch our heads at the vagaries of human desire. For example, who'd have thought that iPhone development would outsell Kathy Sierra by 2:1? As of the last report on the 20th, we only had three spaces left in Brian JepsonTom Igoe's Making Things Talk tutorial,…
Peak Google
Google is presently the big pig at the online advertising trough, commanding by some estimates up to 62% of the $40B online advertising market. I was reading the latest 10-Q quarterly filing from Google, where it quite clearly states: Advertising revenues made up 99% of our revenues in the three and six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2007….
State of the Computer Book Market, Q107, part 1 – Overall Market
This post is the first of a series on the state of the computer book market. First you need a quick summary on where these data, and our interpretations, come from.
State of the Computer Book Market, Part 3 – The Publishers
In this third installment, (part one, part two and part four tomorrow), we will look at the how Publishers have fared in the first quarter of 2007.
Asking the Right Question
Roger Magoulas, our director of market research, is fond of including the photo to the right in his presentations, reminding people that numbers need to be treated with care. Conversely, framing your questions in the right way can be incredibly helpful. I heard a really good example of this kind of thing the other day. A now-retired retinal surgeon set…
Being Delicious
My friends at Silverstripe open source CMS just posted some hard numbers on their recent Delicious/Ajaxian/stumbleupon traffic. It's an interesting glimpse into the difference in traffic between being listed in a blog about a specific technology like Ajaxian versus being listed in a bookmarks site like Delicious. I wonder how the fact that delicious is still nerd territory influenced the…