{"id":2722,"date":"2009-05-07T20:36:04","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T01:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/05\/07\/numbers012\/"},"modified":"2009-05-07T20:36:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T01:36:04","slug":"numbers012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/05\/07\/numbers012\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers, Volume 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\"2019\"<\/a><\/p>\n

While we “don’t do numbers” here at RedMonk, I come across some fun numbers each week, here are some (admittedly kinda slim this week):<\/p>\n

Geo-gaming<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n dodgeball<\/a> was 90% social, 10% discovery<\/strong>. [foursquare<\/a> is] shooting to have much more of a 40% social, 60% discovery split<\/strong>.\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the Office<\/a><\/h2>\n

\n But while occasional telecommuting has increased, the percentage of telecommuters who do so regularly has declined. 5% fewer<\/strong> telecommuters worked from home at least once a week in 2008 than in 2006. During the same period, the percentage of telecommuters who worked from home almost every day dropped by 11%<\/strong>.\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check out The Daily Stat<\/a> for more fun numbers. Also see, “The 4 Hour Workday”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n However, if you work at home, you have no excuse. Scheduling an eight-hour workday is wasting precious hours from your life. If you change how you evaluate your efforts, finishing eight hours of work in 3-4 hours is probable<\/strong>. You might even be able to increase your total output while reducing the amount you work.\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This internet is killing us! Oh, wait…<\/a><\/h2>\n

\n For books that are available on the Kindle, sales are already 35 percent of the same books in print<\/strong>, up from 13 percent just a few months ago<\/strong>. In other words, if a paper book sells 10,000 copies on Amazon, it will sell an additional 3,500 digital copies on the Kindle<\/strong>. Let me repeat that, digital books via the Kindle are selling at 35 percent the level of physical books 18 months after launch.\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We Finally Met!<\/a><\/h2>\n

\n Austin-based Vignette, a developer of web content management software, has been acquired by Open Text in a deal worth approximately $310M<\/strong>. According to Open Text, it will pay $8.00 in cash plus 0.1447 of Open Text common shares for every Vignette common share<\/strong>.\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See also Borland<\/a>, and the local paper’s wrap-up<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These Guys Are Always Gloomy<\/a><\/h2>\n

\n \u201cThis year\u2019s results<\/a> show a marked decrease in project success rates, with 32% of all projects succeeding<\/strong> which are delivered on time, on budget, with required features and functions\u201d says Jim Johnson, chairman of The Standish Group, \u201c44% were challenged which are late, over budget<\/strong>, and\/or with less than the required features and functions and 24% failed<\/strong> which are cancelled prior to completion or delivered and never used.”\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hotdogs Once a Month<\/a><\/h2>\n

\n To prevent premature deaths related to red and processed meats, Dr. Popkin suggested in an interview that people should eat a hamburger only once or twice a week instead of every day<\/strong>, a small steak once a week instead of every other day<\/strong>, and a hot dog every month and a half instead of once a week<\/strong>.\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Etsy<\/a><\/h2>\n

\n Craft marketplace Etsy have released their latest sales and stats figures which includes an impressive figure for growth at the site. In March, $12 million of goods were sold<\/strong> – almost 18% highe<\/strong>r than February\u2019s $10.2 million.<\/strong> March saw 788, 253 sold and 1,321,317 listed<\/strong>. We guess that makes the average price of a good on Etsy $15.22<\/strong>.\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Free TV for $480\/gig<\/a><\/h2>\n

\n On the bottom is gigabytes and on the left is dollars. Yes, dollars. 300 GB would costs you $140,000 on AT&T 3G<\/strong>. You’ll notice that only the 3G providers show up at all, everything else being squished into a single line on the bottom. This is because while Time Warner is charges overages of $1\/GB<\/strong>, Sprint is charging $50\/GB<\/strong>, Verison $280\/GB<\/strong>, and AT&T a ridiculous $480\/GB<\/strong> after you exceed the 5GB cap<\/strong>. Everyone is mad about the Time Warner caps, but it’s really the 3G caps that are totally insane. Every iPhone user is on AT&T, so when Hulu for iPhone comes out it’s going to be crazy.\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dollah, Dollah-bill, y’all!<\/a><\/h2>\n

\n Dollar General, long part of that select club of the500 biggest American companies<\/strong>, appears on this year\u2019s list at No. 259, up 15 places from last year<\/strong>. And Dollar Tree landed on the list for the first time, at No. 499<\/strong>. Those rankings are a far cry from Wal-Mart Stores, which holds the No. 2 position<\/strong> behind Exxon Mobil, but some dollar chains these days are growing faster than Wal-Mart.\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

4 hour workday, Kindle Kash, Hotdogs, $480\/gig from AT&T and failed projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-numbers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}