2011 Web 2.0 Summit: By the Numbers

Here's a sampling of factoids I heard at the sessions I attended this week.

Sean Parker:

Recorded music annual revenue has gone from about $48B to about $12B annually

Validation for Secondmarket prices: The Forbes list of the richest people in the US, contains several early Facebook investors.

Retail industry & ebay stats from John Donohoe:

Customers use their phones to buy 2,600 cars on ebay each week (mostly via ebay's mobile app).

Paypal has over 100M customers with at least two financial accounts linked to their Paypal accounts. (In comparison Visa has 2B card holders & 30M merchants in its network, according to John Partridge of Visa.)

In over half of offline retail transactions, customers access the web (increasingly with mobile devices while they're in the store).

$325B annual total global eCommerce revenue ($10T for all retail). A giant like Walmart only has single-digit market share globally.

VMWare will soon reach $1B in revenue in a single quarter (Marc Benioff)

Stats from Intel's from Kirk Skaugen:

There will be 15B connected devices by 2015, there are currently over 4B.

Annual global IP traffic exceeds 300 exabytes. In fact more data traveled across the Internet in 2010 than during all the preceding years combined.

Annual data center spend is about $450B.

By 2018 Intel hopes to produce a supercomputer that has 100X more computing power than the current fastest supercomputer, at only 2X more energy.

Stats from Dick Costolo:

From 100M tweets/day (start of the year), now approaching 250M tweets/day.

Twitter now has 100 million active global users, about half log in every day

25-30% of Twitter employees are Xooglers.

40% increase in mobile users growth (year-over-year)

Mary Meeker (slides):

81% of the traffic to the most popular web sites are from outside the US.

Less than 50% of internet enabled devices run Windows.

More people have cellular signals (85%) than are connected to an electric grid (80%).

Smartphones with "made in the US" operating systems have 64% share, up from 5% five years ago

Dennis Crowley: 50% of Foursquare usage is outside the US ; there are now over 10M accounts

Amazon, Amazon Web Services, & other stats from Alyssa Henry:

560B objects on S3

1.5B items on Amazon's retail catalog; 50M items are updated every week

Yelp stats: 18M reviews; 50M visitors/month

Khan academy stats from Sal Khan:

They now have about 2,600 videos.

Last month: 39M pageviews (up 495% year-over-year); 3.5M unique users (up 309% year-over-year)

Total spent on the site: about $1M (now that's a Lean Startup!)

Wordpress stats from Toni Schneider:

25M total bloggers and 300M unique visitors per month on wordpress.com

15% of all sites on the internet powered by Wordpress software

Google, Google+ and Android stats from Vic Gundotra and Sergey Brin:

4M businesses have signed up for Google Apps

There were 3.4B photos uploaded onto Google+ in the first 100 days (mostly using the auto photo upload on Android devices)

There are over 200M Android device out there, and recently there have been about 550K activations per day.

Keep them memos short: In reference to Steve Yegge's "Platforms rant", Sergey Brin jokingly remarked that he didn't make it "beyond the first 1,000 pages".

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