How is the online customer?

In this nice infographic you will find a few interesting facts about the online customer. If you have an e-commerce project or if you are thinking on starting a new one, in this infographic you will find a few facts that you have to keep in mind.

You can see how important is the growth of the online sales, or the satisfaction of the Internet retail customer. You also can check what your customers are looking for and how important is to provide them a method to establish communications with you like a chat.

Enjoy and click to enlarge the image!

SOPA Day

Today is the big day for the Anti-Sopa activists, Wikipedia’s English version is down, Wordpress.com is dark, and Google.com has censored their homepage logo. A lot of famous big companies and Internet sites like Facebook, Mozilla, Twitter, Yahoo, Foursquare, Amazon or eBay are supporting this fight too. The black out will last all day.

We have talked about SOPA in this blog, but today is a special day because a lot of websites decided to black out. An example is Reddit.com, they announced that they would be blacking out their site today. Reddit.com four 12 hours goes dark to raise awareness of SOPA and PROTECT IP bills in US congress. They argue that these two bills could change the landscape of the Internet.

You can check sopablackout.org if you want to blackout your web. In this web you can obtain the code to put in your web page a banner supporting the SOPA Blackout or the code to blackout your web page. With this code your web will temporarily turn down and it will show a text with information about the controversial bills SOPA and PROTECT IP(PIPA).

*About SOPA

It would particularly affect sites with heavy user generated content. Sites like Twitter, Reddit, Youtube and others may cease to exist in their current for if this bill is passed.

*About PIPA

PIPA is SOPA’s twin in the Senate. Under current DMCA law, if a user uploads a copyrighted movie to sites like Youtube, the site isn't held accountable so long as they provide a way to report user infringement. The user who uploaded the movie is held accountable for their actions, not the site. PIPA would change that - it would place the blame on the site itself, and would also provide a way for copyright holders to seize the site's domain in extreme circumstances.

*Information from sopablockauto.org/learnmore

Big companies like Google are fighting really hard against these two bills. You can check this post in Google’s official blog, it’s called “Don’t censor the web” and they talk about the blackout and they explain why they are against SOPA and PIPA bills. A huge campaign asking people to send petitions to the US Congress has started, Google has enabled a landing page where every US citizen can send and sign their petition to the US Congress.

Here is a video from EngineAdvocacy where you can see a few Internet entrepreneurs talking about SOPA and PIPA and it’s possible effects on the Internet

CES 2012

The 2012 International CES has started in Las Vegas, Nevada. Since January 10 to January 13 2012 International CES will be offering the most exciting technological news. This year’s edition has more than 3.100 companies, and we will see more than 20.000 new products being launch in the 2012 International CES, the world’s largest hub for consumer technology innovation.

Innovative products as ultrabooks, voice and gesture-based technologies, smartphones and OLED TVs are going to be launched during the event. The 2012 CES show floor covers 1.851 million net square feet of exhibit space, a huge space bigger than 37 footaball fields, this big space is filled with consumer technology innovation.

What can we see at CES?

Microsoft President and CEO Steve Ballmer delivered a pre-CES keynote address. During the address, Ballmer announced that Microsoft Kinect will be available on Windows on February 1, 2012. Other innovations from Microsoft such as Windows phone can be enjoyed at CES.

Other big companies like LG Electronics, Panasonic, Nokia, Samsung, Pioneer, Sharp, Sony, Intel and more are going to launch interesting and innovative products at CES too.

Here are a few conferences you can see at CES the next days

Conferences January 12:

• At LVCC, Nort Hall: “Simplifying the Architecture for Connectivity”, “Kids Go Mobile”, “The Future of Tablets: Segmentation”, “Show Me the Money: Mobile Payments and the Consumer”
• At The Venetian: “Being Creative in Producing a Live-Streaming Show”, “HD Video Everywhere”

Conferences at CES are amazing and there is a wide variety of them to choose the best for you.

The Consumer Electronics Association announced that the 2012 International CES will be the association’s second largest show in history. Every major technology company across the globe is participating in force at this year’s CES. Companies like Apple, Facebook, Twitter, HP and Dell are sending significant delegations to CES to show and talk about their new products.

The opening day CES started with a record number of exhibitors, we have 2 more days to see what CES can show to us.

Web browsers usage in 2011

2011 has been a year of changes in the world of the web browsers, for the first time Google Chrome has overtaken Firefox and Internet Explorer is losing its big market share. If you thought that things could not change in this area of the Internet you were wrong. We might see in 2012 how Chrome beats Internet Explorer supremacy.

The web browsers market has been historically dominated by five web browsers:

• Internet Explorer
• Mozilla Firefox
• Google Chrome
• Safari
• Opera

The big market share has been owned by Internet Explorer since a lot of years ago, Microsoft has an advantage with Windows. But it seems that this will change. Google is making great efforts in promoting Chrome, and it seems that they are getting great results. They have overtaken Firefox and the next target is Internet Explorer. Experts predict that by 2012 Chrome will be overtaking Internet Explorer but it is soon to give an opinion.

All we can do for the moment is check the data and wait for the new statistics the next months. Thanks to StatCounter we can check the Worlwide statistics for web browsers usage from December 2010 to December 2011. In the graph we can see the evolution of usage of the five most important web browsers in the world.

As you can see in the graph the trend for Internet Explorer is going down but not for Chrome that beats Firefox. Firefox’s trend is not as bad as Internet Explorer but it’s going down too. Meanwhile Opera and Safari keep negligible market shares.

Source: StatCounter Global Stats - Browser Market Share