Internet Trends
The USC-Annenberg Digital Future Project has published the results of their sixth annual survey of Internet use and trends. (See highlights at http://www.digitalcenter.org/.)
Highlights of the highlights:
- More than three-quarters of Americans are Internet users; 77.6 percent of Americans age 12 and older go online.
- 50% of US Internet users access it through a broadband connection. Only 37% still use telephone modems.
- For the first time, the percentage of women going online was higher than the number of men.
- US Internet users who keep a blog has more than doubled in three years (now 7.4 percent of users).
- The number of US users who post photos online has also more than doubled in three years (now 23.6%).
- US Internet users who maintain their own Web site is now 12.5 percent.
Larry, methinks the URL in this post is kicking your sidebar down (on its own page, and on the home page). FYI.
[...] Now that about half of US households have broadband, the issue to think about isn’t just high-speed connection, but what value-added services can use the broadband connection to increase our quality of life. I’m talking about voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), Internet protocol TV (IPTV), and paid audio and video content. [...]