Posted by Anand Kahaly in Infographics on March 12, 2012  |  0 Comments More from this author  |  Website  |  Follow Anand Kahaly on: Twitter |

This infographic was created by Online MBA. They have done a wonderful job in dissecting all of the major social networks on the basis of education level, gender, age and household income of their users. This infographic gives us a bird's eye view of the current state of the social networks and the kind of people using them. Women are on top when it comes to using Facebook (57 %), Twitter (59 %) or Pinterest (82 %) while men dominate Google+ at 71 %. College students dominate most social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Facebook is the largest social networks with 845 million users ahead of LinkedIn with 150 million users and Twitter with 127 million users.  Facebook has the highest average time on site per visit at 23:20 minutes. If all of the 845 million Facebook users visit Facebook at least once a day then they would spend a total of 326733333 hours per day on Facebook. The average daily visit of Facebook on mobile is 200 million. That is pretty good considering 5.2 billion cell phone users in the world and not all of them have smart phones. There are around 2 million companies on LinkedIn and 75 % of its users, use LinkedIn for business purposes only. Check out the infographic below and find more such fascinating facts about the social networks. If you are aware of certain facts which are not there in the infographic, feel free to mention them in the comments.

Posted by Anand Kahaly in Infographics on December 28, 2011  |  0 Comments More from this author  |  Website  |  Follow Anand Kahaly on: Twitter |

2011 has been a fruitful year for the tech companies. Groupon has gained a greater foothold in 2011 by expanding into international markets and acquiring new customers. Groupon went on a buying spree and acquired competitors in Australia, Russia and Japan. 53.8 % of Groupon's revenue comes from overseas operations. Geolocation apps like Foursquare and Facebook Places had a good year as well. Foursquare in particular saw a 1000 % user growth from 2009-2011 with 50 % of its users coming from outside US. On the devices side, the top 3 devices to make its mark are Apple iPad, Samsung Galaxy S II and Amazon Kindle. Online Q & A platform Quora saw a 37000 % increase in the number of users from 1,470 users in January 2010 to 5,47,777 users in January 2011. Others players like Stackoverflow, StackExchange, ExpertsExchange and Chacha saw significant growth as well. So, as 2011 draws to an end, let us look back at the tech companies and their products that made significant gains. This infographic may not contain all the facts about the state of tech companies in 2011. If you think we missed out on certain important facts, do mention it in the comments section.                                 

Posted by Anand Kahaly in Infographics on April 06, 2011  |  0 Comments More from this author  |  Website  |  Follow Anand Kahaly on: Twitter |

Bounce rate is the percentage of single page visits. If you are using Google Analytics for your website traffic analysis, i guess you would be quite familiar with the term. A high bounce rate means the landing pages of your website are not relevant to your visitors and they leave after just visiting the first page they encounter. This may happen due to various reasons like if your website takes a lot of time to load, or you have pop-up ads, or may be you don't have a proper site navigation in place. If you have too many external links, have them open in a new window. This infographic is all about what bounce rate is and how it is calculated. It also mentions the factors on which bounce rate depends and ways to improve it.

Posted by Anand Kahaly in Infographics on March 09, 2011  |  0 Comments More from this author  |  Website  |  Follow Anand Kahaly on: Twitter |

A QR code is a specific matrix barcode which can be read through a QR barcode reader or smart phones with QR code reader apps installed. QR stands for Quick Response. These days QR codes are all over the place. You can find these QR codes from billboards to product packagings. Most often these QR codes lead to the official product websites or to user review pages which actually help you decide whether or not to buy a particular product. You can download JumpScan QR code reader app on your smart phone and scan QR codes. JumpScan also lets you create your very own personal QR code. When somebody scans your QR code, they will have your contact info, social media feeds, email address and more. You may scan the QR code on your left and see how it works. This infographic is compiled by JumpScan. You can scan each and every QR code in the infograghic and get more info about it.

Posted by Anand Kahaly in Infographics on January 26, 2011  |  0 Comments More from this author  |  Website  |  Follow Anand Kahaly on: Twitter |

This infographic created by onlineschools.org deals with social media and social networking history right from the day when the first email was sent to the era of Facebook and Twitter. Did you know that the first email was sent in 1971. Friendster, launched in 2002, pioneered the connection of real world friends. Facebook, launched in 2004, took the world of social networking by storm and is now world's second most visited website (after Google) with over 600 million active users. Almost 40 years have passed since 1971 and social media have come a long way. Here's a list of significant events in the field of social media and networking. Go ahead, take a walk down the memory lane, all in a single page.