Siri, Y U No Understand Me? [INFOGRAPHIC] Siri is a loyal mistress, following you wherever you go — but is she a good listener? Since the iPhone 4S began coming standard with Siri last October, the voice activated personal assistant has become a cultural phenomenon. Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel star in Siri-themed ads for the phone. A creepy iPhone case forces you to interact with Siri. But everyone's not impressed. Given the controversy, Internet education portal OnlineDegrees.com rounded up a number of studies and statistics from sources including The Wall Street Journal, ABC News and others over the past several months to produce the infographic below. Only two-thirds of users, however, employ Siri for anything beyond searching the web, making a phone call or sending a text. Check out the infographic below for more on how iPhone owners do — and don't — use Siri.
Students Cite YouTube, Google, Wikipedia the Most [INFOGRAPHIC] When doing homework, many students turn to the same websites as they do when they're surfing the web under other circumstances. Four of the top ten most-cited websites on Easybib, a site used to create more than 500 million citations, are user-generated sites like Wikipedia and YouTube. Meanwhile, Google is filling the niche research databases once dominated. A recent ethnographic study found that students referred to Google more than any other database when discussing their research habits. When they did use the search engine, they had trouble finding appropriate sources within the results. "Students are often ill-equipped to sufficiently evaluate or refine the results that are returned,” Andrew Asher, an anthropologist at Bucknell University and one of the project leads, told Mashable in August. “…I don’t think this is a problem limited to students.”
The startup has compiled research on information literacy in the infographic below. Image courtesy of iStockphoto, Squaredpixels. First look at eBay's use of Hunch data: infographic. eBay released the infographic below this morning, as covered by Richard Brewer-Hay on the official eBay Ink blog. Following the acquisition of recommendation engine Hunch for $80m in November of last year, eBay has been working quietly on using the company’s technology to revamp its own e-commerce recommendations. This will in time enable the company to move beyond standard item-to-item recommendations and use a broader variety of members’ online tastes to suggest interesting items to purchase.
It's the first we’ve seen on the integration of eBay and Hunch data, which this time looks at the differences between people who have bought or sold on eBay, and those who haven’t yet. It’s probably heartening to eBay that 66% of Hunch users already have. For now, this is just a fun teaser to show what can be done with the 85m responses to Hunch’s ‘Teach Hunch About You’ questions, but before long we should see some really interesting targeting and personalisation integrated into eBay. Microsoft-acquisition-investissement-infographie.
Cisco: 50 Billion Things on the Internet by 2020 [Infographic] The Internet of Things, when real world objects are connected to the Internet, is a trend that we've been actively tracking since early 2009. So far a lot of big technology infrastructure and solutions companies have gotten behind the trend, for the simple reason that they see a huge market opportunity. As more and more 'things' go on the Net, it creates more demand for network infrastructure like sensors and routers. Enter the likes of Cisco and Verizon Wireless. Likewise, more technology solutions will be developed to upload and manage data from real world objects. Cisco has designed an infographic that offers a simple example of how Internet of Things will affect you in your everyday life. There has been some contention about the number of connected things and by when. Regardless, as the infographic below shows, the number of things connected to the Internet has already exceeded the number of people on earth.
Infographic via All Things D. The Interconnected World of Tech Companies [INFOGRAPHIC] The "tech world" is really more of a "tech family. " Between digital giants' appetites for acquisitions and the tendency of their ex-employees to start new companies, it's easy to see how nearly every blip in the ecosystem is closely related. We've mapped just a few of these family ties between "Xooglers," the "PayPal Mafia", "Softies" and the many other tech connectors who have yet to be nicknamed. Our guess is that if you gathered a handful of tech veterans in a room, you could keep the tech connection game going forever. So while this graphic is hardly exhaustive, we'll keep it going in the comments — feel free to add connections to the list! Infographic design by Nick Sigler Image courtesy of iStockphoto, BrianAJackson. Quora: The Stats Behind the Buzz [INFOGRAPHIC] Quora's beautifully designed, elegantly executed Q&A might be burning up the blogs, but how is the site performing in the real world?
Web analytics firm KISSmetrics has just published an infographic about "The Wonderful World of Quora. " The charts show some interesting details, such as the growth of Quora's userbase as well as the upward trend of monthly uniques. KISSmetrics also points out the myriad ways to use Quora beyond just asking and answering questions. The infographic was created with help from Semil Shah, an active Quora user and fan. What do you think of Quora's chances of long-term success? [Collection] Everything Google. Not much word I can write here, I’m collection all infographics about google, the product, service, history, and so on. Even when I create the thumbnail image above I’m using picasa, here check it out. How Google Work ( link ) Google VS Apple ( link ) Google Fact And Figure ( link ) Google Infographic ( link ) Google’s Green Side ( link ) Google World Domination ( link ) Google Acquisitions and Investments ( link ) An Android World ( link ) Which Industries Use Google AdWords?
Google And Social Media ( link ) Google’s History of Communication Infographic ( link ) Apple VS Google VS Microsoft ( link ) Google Buzz Privacy Fix ( link ) Google Android Traction Statistics ( link ) Fear Google ( link ) Who Owns The Most Server ( link ) The Energy Used In Google Search ( link ) The Rise of Google Android ( link ) Planet Google ( link ) Google Video Infographic ( link ) The History of Advertising on YouTube. The Social Ad Series is supported by LoopFuse, which provides forever-free marketing automation software that closes the loop between sales and marketing with smarter lead capture, scoring, and nurturing — plus Salesforce.com integration. See how lead management with LoopFuse increases revenue. YouTube, the world's most popular video-viewing platform, sees 2 billion hits per day. Fortunately, the Google-owned company has figured out a few ways to monetize all of those video views. From pre-roll — which Google CEO Eric Schmidt was originally “not a big fan of” — to promoted videos and its 10,000 brand partners, YouTube's growth has helped Google shares soar.
The site is monetizing more than 2 billion video views per week, and 70% of its traffic comes from outside the U.S. Take a look at the infographic below to see how the site — and its advertising strategy — has evolved since its founding in 2005. Infographic design by Emily Caufield. Series Supported by Loopfuse. Infographic Of The Day: Google's 11-Year Spending Spree | Co. Design. The relentless, daily stream of Google news tends to hide one important fact about the company: They've been buying a lot of smaller companies, in their ever-evolving quest to dominate the online ad market and shore up their defenses against disruptive innovations or nagging patent lawsuits.
Here's an infographic illustrating that, created by Antonio Lupetti, the founder of Italian tech site Woorkup: The main take-away, of course, is that Google has actually been quite strategic about its biggest purchases: These aren't big-ticket impulse buys, as you might expect given Google's wild-and-wacky image as loving innovation for innovation's sake.
In each case, from Double-Click to Ad Mob to YouTube, the focus has been on shoring up its core advertising business. (Granted, the AOL "acquisition" is actually more of a strategic partnership, but never mind. That's still a lot of money.) The one seeming outlier, of course, is YouTube. [Top image by Images_of_Money] How Amazon Became the World's Largest Retailer. Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, has exponentially grown throughout its 17-year history. The company, which began selling books online out of Jeff Bezos's Bellevue, Wash., garage in in 1994, has expanded to become an ecommerce and tech giant. This infographic from Frugaldad puts Amazon's goliath size into human terms. For instance, if Amazon were a country for active users, it would be twice the size of Canada. Amazon serves as many customers each week as the city of Beijing's population. SEE ALSO: Amazon Kindle Fire, iPad’s First True Competitor [REVIEW] Take a look at these nine facts about Amazon.