More according to http://www.statista.com

• In 2011, the total population of China was around 1.35 billion people. Life expectancy in China was 73.3 years for people born in 2009.
• The country is on track to overtake the United States as the world’s largest economy within the next decade. In 2010, the GDP of China was 5.88 trillion U.S. dollars.
• China overtook Germany as the world’s leading exporter and now tops the ranking of the world’s largest export nations with a total export value of 1.58 trillion U.S. dollars in 2010. 20% of all exports go to US.
• Distribution of the workforce across economic sectors in China from 1998 to 2008. In 2008, 39.6 percent of the workforce were employed in agriculture, 27.2 percent in manufacturing and 33.2 percent in services.
• 4th Quarter 2009 to 4th Quarter 2011 – In the fourth Quarter of 2009, the index value for the business expectations in China stood at 127.7 points.

Infographic stolen from Mashable

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It’s okay to not produce Open Source Software. I personally believe that each license has it’s place in professional web development. But if you’re looking for the most open license, The WTFPL would be the one.

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We used to have to create these, tape them to the wall and get laughed at for being geeks. Now it’s cool (kewl).

Imagine that?!

Loving this one at the moment:
The New Updated Facebook Cheat Sheet of Sizes and Dimensions

Yes, it really is a technocruze, technocruze folks.

Coding to save energy

Facebook developed HipHop for PHP, which is a source code transformer – converting PHP code to C++. With HipHop, we reduced the CPU usage on Facebook Web servers by an average of about 50%. Less CPU usage means fewer servers, which means less energy use.

Thinking of adding this to the Sustainable Web Design Knol?

of note…

17.6 billion explicit core searches were conducted in February, with Google Sites ranking first with 11.7 billion. Microsoft Sites ranked second with 2.7 billion searches, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.4 billion, Ask Network with 535 million (up 2 percent) and AOL, Inc. with 266 million.

Get the complete results at comScore:
comScore Releases February 2012 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

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Mobile data traffic will reach the following milestones within the next five years.

Monthly global mobile data traffic will surpass 10 exabytes in 2016.

Over 100 million smartphone users will belong to the “gigabyte club” (over 1 GB per month) by 2012.

The number of mobile-connected devices will exceed the world’s population in 2012.

The average mobile connection speed will surpass 1 Mbps in 2014.

Due to increased usage on smartphones, handsets will exceed 50 percent of mobile data traffic in 2014.

Monthly global mobile data traffic will surpass 10 exabytes in 2016.

Monthly mobile tablet traffic will surpass 1 exabyte per month in 2016.

Tablets will exceed 10 percent of global mobile data traffic in 2016.

China will exceed 10 percent of global mobile data traffic in 2016.

Global mobile data traffic will increase 18-fold between 2011 and 2016.

By the end of 2012, the number of mobile-connected devices will exceed the number of people on earth, and by 2016 there will be 1.4 mobile devices per capita.

Mobile network connection speeds will increase 9-fold by 2016.

In 2016, 4G will be 6 percent of connections, but 36 percent of total traffic.

Two-thirds of the world’s mobile data traffic will be video by 2016.

Mobile-connected tablets will generate almost as much traffic in 2016 as the entire global mobile network in 2012.

Mobile Data Traffic Will Double Again in 2012
Cisco estimates that traffic in 2012 will grow 2.1-fold (110 percent), reflecting a continuation in the tapering of growth rates. The evolving device mix and the migration of traffic from the fixed network to the mobile network  have the potential to bring the growth rate higher, while tiered pricing and traffic offload may reduce this effect.
The current growth rates of mobile data traffic resemble those of the fixed network from 1997 through 2001, when the average yearly growth was 150 percent.

Conclusion

Mobile data services are well on their way to becoming necessities for many network users. Mobile voice service is already considered a necessity by most, and mobile data, video, and TV services are fast becoming an essential part of consumers’ lives. Used extensively by consumer as well as enterprise segments, with impressive uptakes in both developed and emerging markets, mobility has proven to be transformational. Mobile subscribers are growing rapidly and bandwidth demand due to data and video is increasing. Mobile M2M connections continue to increase.

The next 5 years are projected to provide unabated mobile video adoption despite uncertain macroeconomic conditions in many parts of the world. Backhaul capacity must increase so mobile broadband, data access, and video services can effectively support consumer usage trends and keep mobile infrastructure costs in check.
Deploying next-generation mobile networks requires greater service portability and interoperability. With the proliferation of mobile and portable devices, there is an imminent need for networks to allow all these devices to be connected transparently, with the network providing high-performance computing and delivering enhanced real-time video and multimedia. This openness will broaden the range of applications and services that can be shared, creating a highly enhanced mobile broadband experience. The expansion of wireless presence will increase the number of consumers who access and rely on mobile networks, creating a need for greater economies of scale and lower cost per bit.
As many business models emerge with new forms of advertising, media and content partnerships, mobile services including M2M, live gaming, and (in the future) augmented reality, a mutually beneficial situation needs to be developed for service providers and over-the-top providers. New partnerships, ecosystems, and strategic consolidations are expected as mobile operators, content providers, application developers, and others seek to monetize the video traffic that traverses mobile networks. Operators must solve the challenge of effectively
monetizing video traffic while increasing infrastructure capital expenditures. They must become more agile and able to quickly change course and provide innovative services to engage the Web 3.0 consumer.

While the net neutrality regulatory process and business models of operators evolve, there is an unmet demand from consumers for the highest quality and speeds. As wireless technologies aim to provide experiences formerly only available through wired networks, the next few years will be critical for operators and service providers to plan future network deployments that will create a adaptable platform upon which will deploy the multitude of mobile-enabled devices and applications of the future.

For More Information
Inquiries can be directed to traffic-inquiries at cisco.com.

Interactive over traditional tactics. Seventy-seven percent of SMBs surveyed reported their 2010 interactive marketing budgets increasing or staying the same as compared with 2009. Of those increasing budgets, 54% said they will decrease budget for traditional marketing tactics like TV, radio, direct mail, and print, in order to fund the increases in interactive.
 

Report Recommendations
SMBs Should Lead Interactive Innovation

• Tackle the low-hanging fruit.
• Exploit existing internal resources.
• Prioritize technologies that create efficiencies.
• Utilize on-demand campaign automation solutions.

Report available for a free download from the Adobe Marketing Insights website.

Knowing how algorithms affects your brand online is a critical marketing and reputation management skill. Your ability to work these algorithms to your advantage can lead to more sales. Knowing how algorithms can make it easier and harder to reach your target audience online requires a bit of left and right brain juggling but for content marketers, knowing the way your code appeals or shuns these two ranking algorithms is mission critical.

Facebook’s EdgeRank is currently much more difficult to view in action than Google’s PageRank. The tools are limited at the time of this writing although you may want to try, the EdgeRank checker at http://edgerankchecker.com.” Use at your own risk.

EdgeRank also requires a separate understanding from Google’s PageRank algorithm. Although both attempt to measure the “importance” of content for example, they’re quite different in their application.

Less is currently known about Edgerank. For example, there is no Wikipedia article for Edgerank. Yet hundreds of thousands of articles including a Wikipedia article exists for Google’s PageRank. Start there and work your way outwards to other PageRank articles and experts like Matt Cutts and Danny Sullivan.

Jeff Widman has written a great primer on EdgeRank. Other have written about and put more effort into testing EdgeRank. He in part, defines EdgeRank as Facebook’s attempt “to predict how interesting each story will be to each user.”

To learn more about how it works, why you should care and how other Facebook algorithms compliment the Facebook news feed, check out Jeff’s website.