by Leandro Milmanda Perez » trends

Where has all the fun gone?

lemil — Mon, 25 May 2009 22:32:06 +0000

Guess you remember in the times of the dot-com bubble , when b2c titans like e-bay and amazon, were supposed to kill traditional commerce and visionary people predicted they will own or be part of the majority of our daily shopping.

I used to spend a couple of hours a week in sites like eBay, Amazon or MercadoLibre trying to find interesting stuff, sharing content and reading comments. .. Did that last phrase sounded familiar to you?, that’s the same thing we still do, more days and hours a week in such sites as Facebook, mySpace, etc, etc?. Apparently, instead of spending money in things we barely need, now we spend more time (= less money) reading stuff, comments / tweets, pols, playing online, etc. This slow decay could be associated to several factors like international crisis, inefficient search, new competitors (mercadolibre (AR), craiglist, olx, and so…), among others, but at the end the Real and simple reason is that is not fun anymore.

Over the years we changed the way we use and have fun with internet, and fastest connections allow us to get more content, streamings, and realtime communications. Finally facts of our daily life and history became reflected and published.

This is a rank that describes the average user behaviour for US on 2004.

And this is for the year 2006

As a verification to my point I mashed up a couple of trends graphics, showing a comparison about searched terms in ecommerce and social. (source: google trends)

- Argentina

ebay

1.00

mercado libre

17.0

facebook

16.0

twitter

Here, in Argentina, Mercadolibre.com (local ebay and ex affiliated to them), was crushed by facebook before october 08.

- All regions

ebay

1.00

mercado libre

0.04

facebook

1.74

twitter

0.02

Same thing for all reagions 6 month before.

Leandro.

Sources:

- Google Trends . http://www.google.com/trends

- Tech Crunch . http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/23/how-facebook-myspace-and-youtube-killed-ebay/ (great article)

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Trends – Whois who in Social Networking [Trends]

lemil — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:44:04 +0000

Nowadays twitter seems to be in everybody’s mouth, (meanwhile we try to image another idea to monetize all that traffic). A year ago Facebook changed the way we use the web and it gathered people around the world in a 200.000.000 user community. Today, using google trends, did a chart explaining what people is searching on social networking.

facebook

1.00

twitter

0.01

myspace

0.32

hi5

0.20

google

0.57

If you pay attentio to the chart in the lower part shows how “news about” twitter eclipsed any other thing on the web, at least for a couple of days (the kutner effect).

Cheers!

Leandro Milmanda Perez

Trends – Social networking in Argentina

lemil — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:41:34 +0000

Since a few month ago we changed the way we use Internet in Argentina. Remember the g’ood old days when we use to send mails, see La Nacion.com or Ole.com.ar, and may be the most “trendies” watch videos on you tube. Now (only a few month later) all of us is on facebook, tagging pictures, sending wall messages, researching friends of friends, even Moms got there!. And is you are wandering about how popular in comparison to other sites it became I charted , thanks to google trends.

facebook

1.00

taringa

0.76

la nacion

0.44

clarin

1.20

sexo

0.62

Something changed, we did? I guess…. the use of social network is here for good.

If you are interested in being part of social networks or want to build your, own leave your comments or contact me.

by Leandro Milanda Perez.