7 posts and columns on stat

There Are Seven Billion People on Planet Earth Right Now (Try to Keep Up, Facebook!)

in News on October 31, 2011 at 10:49 am PT

It’s official: Seven billion people are alive in the world at this moment, a high population point of all time. And they are more digital than ever.
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Nike Digital Sport's Stefan Olander Talks About Its Digital Marathon

in News on January 11, 2011 at 6:05 am PT

While BoomTown was running around the endless floors of the Consumer Electronics Show last week, I jogged right over to the folks at Nike, to see their new Nike+ SportWatch GPS. The device is yet another step in Nike’s long march to try to digitize the running experience.

The My-Fill-In-the-Space Reset Is Here, as Struggling Social Network Morphs Into Entertainment Hub

in News on October 26, 2010 at 10:56 pm PT

Empty bracket or no empty bracket: Will it work? That’s pretty much the big question at News Corp. tonight, as its much beleaguered social networking site, Myspace, rolls out a new beta version aimed at shifting its fortunes. And how will it do that? By moving dramatically away from its roots as a social networking site–and far, far away from powerhouse Facebook–and becoming a “social entertainment” hub aimed directly at the Gen Y audience.

Meet Drake Meeting Brizzly: A Spanking New ATD Feature

in News on November 6, 2009 at 12:03 am PT

Today, All Things Digital debuts a new feature called “Almost Famous” in our Voices section. No, it is not about Kate Hudson and nascent rock stars. Well, you might meet geek rock stars to be. Focused on innovative, interesting or just plain odd start-ups, we thought it was a good way for our readers to get a gander at some up-and-coming ideas and trends. It will be penned by Drake Martinet every Friday.
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Fancy Charts of the Week: It Might Be Bingtastic, but Users Heart Google the Way Gum Loves a Sneaker!

in News on August 21, 2009 at 1:17 am PT

This week, BoomTown decided to mash up two different and interesting surveys, both from comScore, about the search market. When you do this, you find that while the new Bing search engine from Microsoft is showing some impressive growth–up a half-point in July from June to an 8.9 percent share–the software giant still has a long way to go to get some true love from the consumers. Obsessive love, actually.
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More Local Heat: MSNBC.com Buys EveryBlock for Several Million Dollars

in News on August 17, 2009 at 9:00 am PT

It looks like the local market is heating up even more, with MSNBC.com announcing the acquisition of Chicago-based EveryBlock. Sources said MSNBC.com–a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal–paid several million dollars for the “hyper-local” information site, which is up and running in 15 cities, including New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago and Boston. In June, Time Warner online unit AOL paid about $10 million to buy Patch Media, a platform that does deeply localized coverage of communities on a range of topics.
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Fancy Graphs of the Week: iPhone Versus Android

in News on August 11, 2009 at 11:13 am PT

As a new weekly feature, BoomTown is calling all those who make cool graphs about tech to send them to me pronto. I am–truth be told–a secret stats fanatic. A bargraphaholic. A closet pie-charter. (I also love pie.) Thus, here are a few comparing some stats about development for the iPhone from Apple and the Android from Google, from Flurry Analytics.
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