John Joubert » Mini-post http://www.johnjoubert.com freelance wordpress designer, e-business consultant, entrepreneur & blogger Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:08:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Simple Banking with BankSimple http://www.johnjoubert.com/2010/05/simple-banking-with-banksimple/ http://www.johnjoubert.com/2010/05/simple-banking-with-banksimple/#comments Tue, 18 May 2010 13:20:35 +0000 John Joubert http://www.johnjoubert.com/?p=504 Very interesting article on one of Twitter’s first employees who has moved into Banking : http://al3x.net/2010/05/17/something-new.html

Check it out and let me know what you think…seems like a bold move, but I personally would’ve stuck with Twitter for a little longer ;)

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This is not surprising as we all know that the mobile web is becoming increasingly ubiquitous as a platform to access social media and other information driven services.  What is surprising with these particular statistics is that women, teens and seniors are leading the way, in terms of growth (year on year percentages). Amazingly, seniors are seeing a 67% percent growth in mobile web usage in the last year.

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To read more about these stats check out the Nielson blog.

SA Internet vs Mobile

Biggest Websites in South Africa
Biggest Websites
Biggest Mobile Websites
Website Unique Monthly Visitors Website Unique Monthly Visitors
News24 1 859 569 Soccer Laduma Mobile 229 506
MSN 1 305 839 24.com Mobile WAP 185 149
IOL News 1 237 502 MyBroadband Mobile 30 939
Hotmail 1 178 646 Blueworld Mobile 20 176
Webmail 827 599 Times Mobile 19 600
MWEB 732 746 Kick Off SA Mobile 14 100
MyBroadband 698 684 PrivateProperty Mobi 12 278
Vodacom4me 610 403 SundayWorld 7 134
Supersport 596 592 M.iol.co.za 6 753
Junkmail 591 477 Trudon Mobile 5 643

Source

These stats make for some pretty interesting reading as they show the growth of mobile over the last couple years or so. I’m not going to analyze these stats, I merely wanted to point them out to you and hopefully generate some conversation about them. Feel free to post a comment or thought below :)

]]> http://www.johnjoubert.com/2009/10/mobile-web-usage-on-the-rise/feed/ 0 Monetizing your blog…to ad or not to ad? http://www.johnjoubert.com/2009/02/monetizing-your-blogto-ad-or-not-to-ad/ http://www.johnjoubert.com/2009/02/monetizing-your-blogto-ad-or-not-to-ad/#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:27:17 +0000 John Joubert http://www.johnjoubert.com/?p=396 I would like to say upfront that I am not pretending to have the right answers to this question. If you have read any of my other articles on this topic you will have noticed that I am strongly against obtrusive and greedy advertising (see here).

What I would like to know is whether or not anyone would mind if there were one or two ads on this blog that were relevant and useful to those who are reading. The reason for my question is that I have been contemplating whether or not I should test the response I get from a couple ads on this site.

So, before I do anything…I would like to know what you think? As usual, let me know in the comments :)

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