LJ Index, April 2009

1. Lowest Legal price in dollars the "Ghosts I-IV" album, by Nine Inch Nails: 0
2. Price in dollars charged for "Ghosts I-IV" at Amazon.com: 5
3. Position of "Ghosts I-IV" among Amazon's top-selling albums for 2008: 1
4. Millions of female drivers in the UK who are "putting themselves and other drivers at risk by wearing the wrong footwear when behind the wheel" 11.5
5. Preference percentage for a "higher resolution" photo that isn't, in a choice between two actually identical pictures: 75
6. Billions of dollars spent annually on Internet advertising by 2011: 106
7. Percentage of US internet audience that viewed online video in November 2008: 77
8. Billions of online videos viewed by US internet users:12.7
9. Percentage increase of above over the same period in 2007: 34
10. Google's (linux-served) YouTube rank as a US online video property: 1
11. Billions of YouTube videos viewed in November 2008: 5.1
12. Google Sites again ranked the top US video property, with nearly 5.1 billion videos
13. YouTube percentage of all videos viewed in November 2008: 40
14. YouTube share of Google video properties: 98
15. Millions of US internet viewers in November 2008: 147
16. Average number of videos users watched by US viewers in November 2008: 87
17. Duration in minutes of the average online video: 3.1.
18. Duration in minutes of the average online video viewed at (linux-served, via Akamai) Hulu.com: 11.9
19. Number of results in a search for "Linux" at AMD.com (U.S.): 1281
20. Number of results in a search for "Linux" at FreeScale.com: 1445

Sources: 1, Nine Inch Nails; 2-3, Amazon.com, 2, Sheila's Wheels (a U.K. insurance company), citing a 2007 YouGov survey of 754 female drivers; 5, ArsTechnica, citing Journal of Consumer Research; 6, CRMToday; 7-18, MarketingVOX, sourcing comScore's Video Metrix, MarketingCharts; 10, 18: SearchDNS.Netcraft.com; 19, AMD; 20, FreeScale.

Links:

http://mis-asia.com/news/articles/china-is-largest-broadband-country-report

http://www.sheilaswheels.com/media/news/SHEILAS_HEELS.html

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081023-shoppers-are-suckers-for-statseven-when-theyre-meaningless.html

http://www.crm2day.com/content/t6_librarynews_1.php?news_id=125101

http://www.marketingvox.com/pwc_entertainment_and_media_to_reach_18_trillion_advertising_521_billion_in_2010-022025/

http://search.amd.com/query.html?col=&ht=2135426192&la=en&qt=linux&qs=|+language%3Aen&ct=1325960345&qm=1&ql=&lk=1&rf=0&ws=0&tqmhak=0&lap=en

Possible:

http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=18287

For later...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10130690-92.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE5065PS20090107

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/Laptops-Mininotebooks-to-Grab-the-Spotlight-at-2009-CES/

1. Millions of fixed broadband subscribers in the Asia Pacific region: 150
2. The United States ranked second after China, with a little more than 70 million subscribers, and Japan, third, with 29.7 million.
3. Global fixed broadband subscribers exceeded 385 million.
4. One-fifth of global subscribers
5. China accounted for 21 per cent of global broadband subscribers, the report stated.
6. Global voice over broadband subscribers were 86.1 million and global IP-TV subscribers were estimated at 17.1 million.