Mary Meeker Offers Updated Analysis During Web 2.0 Summit Presentation
By Dennis Kuba
October 31, 2011
October 31, 2011
- At the recent Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Mary Meeker updated her Internet Trends analysis that she has presented for the past eight years. Meeker is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and was formerly managing director and research analyst at Morgan Stanley.
- Meeker offered some compelling data this year (the ReadWriteWeb post features some great trend charts and statistics). Highlights include:
- Globality — China’s Internet users add up to almost twice the number of U.S. users.
- Mega-Trend — Empowering people worldwide with mobile devices.
- 55 percent of Twitter traffic and 33 percent of Facebook traffic comes from mobile devices.
- User Interface — Touch, sound and movement is the new UI.
- 85 percent of world’s population now covered by commercial wireless signals.
- Smartphones and tablets outshipped PCs (notebooks and desktops) in Q4 2010.
- Mobile apps and advertising has been growing 153 percent/year over past four years.
- Social networking time is surpassing portal times.
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