Insights into Internet trends
Mary Meeker, partner at Kleiner Perkins, provided a fascinating look at Internet trends last week during the annual Web 2.0 Summit last week. Among the facts:
- Social networks (70% of whom use Facebook) exceed the number of Internet users.
- In 3 years, China added more Internet users than the total number of Internet users in the U.S.
- The mobile Internet (smart phones) is in the midst of its explosion in market penetration: 3G growth year to year is 35%; almost 1 billion 3G subscribers worldwide.
