Internet’s Annual Report Card Shows China’s Rise. The latest version of venture capitalist Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends report arrived this morning, and some of the most interesting of her 117 slides are about the scale and growth of Internet use and businesses in China. Both Meeker’s full slide presentation , and a video of her talk at the D11 conference are available online. Here are a few interesting points about the Internet and China from her slides: More people in China now access the Web using their phone (75 percent) than with a desktop PC (71 percent). The crossing point was just last year. Internet and mobile use take up more of leisure time in China (33 percent and 22 percent of leisure time, respectively) than in the U.S. (26 percent for Internet and 12 percent for mobile use). In the past year, Twitter-style Chinese social network Sina Weibo has doubled its userbase to 530 million and grown income from roughly zero to $100 million.
A global look at Mary Meeker's Internet Trends report | Global by DesignGlobal by Design. Mary Meeker, a Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner, recently provided another healthy dose of data and trends, along with a number of predictions. But the media largely overlooked the web and software globalization implications of many of these slides. So allow me to chime in on the slides that jumped out at me. Let’s begin with this slide: So the “Made in USA” websites are leading the world in overall visitors. But what doesn’t get noted is that the top-7 websites average 91 languages.
That’s right, 91 languages — an average skewed heavily by Wikipedia. Here are my language counts: These “Made in the USA” websites have been “Localized for the world.” Next slide: Americans aren’t global leaders in “sharing” — though we’ve been unintentionally sharing quite a lot of our data with the NSA (a rant for a future day). Now, I’m not sure how different cultures define sharing, which has to be a major caveat to this slide. This slide is pretty easy to grasp. See below for the answer: Breaking down Mary Meeker’s Latest: Trends in China & the Global Internet. Mary Meeker of the prominent VC Firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfied Byers released her annual Internet Trends slide deck at the D11 Conference on May 29th.
Meeker’s report highlighted a number of compelling trends, including the astounding growth of Android and iOS mobile market share (now a combined 88% globally from 5% in 2005), mobile traffic growth (now 15% of global internet use with a year-on-year growth rate of 50%) and the potential for “wearable tech” given that smartphone users reach for their phone 150x a day on average. Meeker’s presentation, which was produced with the help of Chinese-born KPCB senior associate Liang Wu, also had a lot to say about China—including an entire section titled “Lots to Learn from China”. Given that we are a Chinese tech blog, we’ll focus on what Meeker had to say about the Middle Kingdom’s tech scene. On to Meeker’s points: 1) China Internet Penetration—Market Size China has the largest internet user base in the world with 504 million users. Full Video of Mary Meeker's 2013 Internet Trends Deck at D11 - Liz Gannes - D11.
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