July 7th, 2006
The first session at the Web 2.0 conference this morning is being presented by Tim Roe, Director of Data Analytics at Nielsen//NetRatings. He overwhelmed the audience of roughly 200 people with dozens of charts about the status and growth of the Internet in the European Union (EU) versus the U.S. Bottom line: there are more Internet users in the U.S., but EU growth rate is more than twice as high. EU should pass U.S. in another 4-5 years.
Another interesting factoid: “search” has become the “killer app” on the Internet, surpassing email in usage. And as expected, Google is the most popular search engine in the EU.
All of the charts and graphs from the presentation will supposedly be available on the conference web site fairly soon; if so, I’ll do my best to digest them and post some summary notes.
