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- Facebook Users Uploaded A Record 750 Million Photos Over New Year's
- Twitter And Facebook Really Are Killing RSS (At Least For TechCrunch Visitors)
- Ciris Energy Raises $23.9 Million To Convert Coal To Natural Gas
| Facebook Users Uploaded A Record 750 Million Photos Over New Year's | Top |
| It doesn’t come as a huge surprise, but it’s still staggering to think about: over the New Year’s weekend, Facebook saw 750 million photo uploads from its users. That’s a lot of celebrating, and it sets a new Facebook record. The stat was just tweeted by Facebook marketing director Randi Zuckerberg (who is also founder Mark Zuckerberg’s sister). We’ve reached out to Facebook to ask what the last record was, but I’m guessing it was set over Halloween, which has historically been the biggest day for Facebook Photos. To give some context to that number, in July Facebook said that more than 100 million photos get uploaded every day (that average is higher now, obviously). Here’s another stat: Flickr had its 5 billionth photo uploaded in September 2010 — Facebook would get that in a week or two if photos were uploaded at the rate they were last weekend. That’s a little apples-to-oranges (though Facebook does now offer support for high quality image uploads), but it gives a sense of the scale of Facebook Photos. Image by Brian Solis CrunchBase Information Facebook Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| Twitter And Facebook Really Are Killing RSS (At Least For TechCrunch Visitors) | Top |
| Earlier today, we ran a “ TechCrunch 2010 In Review ” post featuring some key data WordPress.com sent our way for 2010. Interesting stuff all around. However, as some people have noticed , in our top referrers for the year, Facebook is nowhere to be found. Further, Google Reader, an RSS reader, comes in number three! Is Facebook dying? Is RSS reborn ? Nah . It would appear that referrer data is just a bit screwy. I ran that data against our own data coming directly from Google Analytics. The view from there is quite a bit different — and interesting. For 2010, according to Google Analytics, here were our top 10 referrers: twitter.com facebook.com digg.com techmeme.com news.ycombinator.com google.com reddit.com stumbleupon.com crunchgear.com news.google.com As you can see, like the WordPress.com data, Twitter is number one, but the rest are switched around. Facebook pushed Digg to number three. And Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com) swapped with Techmeme. Google Reader, meanwhile, is nowhere to be found in the Google Analytics data. Actually, it is — it’s a subset of the google.com traffic (which doesn’t include search traffic, which is far above any of these referrer sites). Drilling down, Google Reader was actually the number 11 overall referrer to TechCrunch in 2010. Further, it was way down from 2009 — nearly 50 percent . In other words, yes, RSS is slowly dying. At least when it comes to the most popular feed reader sending traffic to TechCrunch. So what rose up in Reader’s place? Well, here are the top 10 referrers to TechCrunch from 2009, according to Google Analytics: digg.com google.com twitter.com techmeme.com facebook.com news.ycombinator.com stumbleupon.com reddit.com crunchgear.com crunchbase.com Again, Google Reader was a subset of the google.com data. Drilling down, Reader would have been number 6 by itself, just ahead of Hacker News (again, news.ycombinator.com) and just behind Facebook. Of all the properties in the top 10, Reader had by far the most dramatic fall. Twitter an Facebook, meanwhile, saw the biggest rise in 2010. That makes sense since those are the two most often associated with the slow death of RSS. Both shot through the roof when compared to 2009. Twitter nearly doubled as a referrer to TechCrunch and Facebook more than doubled the amount of traffic it was sending. Techmeme, Hacker News, StumbleUpon, and Reddit all had nice bumps in sending us traffic. Digg fell quite a bit, though not nearly as far as Reader. Now, a part of all of these bumps is simply because TechCrunch had more content overall in 2010 when compared to 2009. But that makes the Google Reader drop even more interesting. Sure, people can read TechCrunch through Reader without clicking through, but why the huge drop unless fewer people were actually reading it that way? We’ve reached out to WordPress to see why their data seemed to over-count Reader while massively under-counting Facebook (which was number 20 on WordPress’ list). A couple other interesting data points: In terms of new visitors to TechCrunch, StumbleUpon sends by far the most (percentage-wise), followed by Google News. Techmeme sends the least, followed by Hacker News. That latter two seem to share many common readers with us — no surprise there. But for average time on site, Techmeme dominates, followed by Facebook and Twitter. StumbleUpon is the worst here, followed by Reddit and Digg. In other words, people visiting from Techmeme, Facebook, and Twitter actually seem to read the content. CrunchBase Information Google Reader Twitter Facebook Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| Ciris Energy Raises $23.9 Million To Convert Coal To Natural Gas | Top |
| Ciris Energy, Inc., a Cenetennial, Colorado energy startup, raised a series B investment of $23.9 million a recent SEC-filing revealed. Khosla Ventures led the round with earlier Ciris backers Braemar Energy Ventures, Rho Ventures and GE Energy Financial Services, the companies announced Monday. Ciris Energy aims to produce natural gas from coal in a way that is more environmentally responsible and economically efficient than other methods of producing natural gas. It also aims to turn coal into a far less dangerous and polluting energy resource than it is today. According to a feature story by James Fallows in The Atlantic: “Mining coal is notoriously dangerous, the remnants of mines disfigure the Earth, and the by-products of coal's combustion fill the air not simply with soot, smoke, and carbon dioxide but also with toxic heavy metals like mercury and lead, plus corrosive oxides of nitrogen and sulfur, among other pollutants… Overall, coal-burning power plants provide nearly half (about 46 percent this year) of the electricity consumed in the United States. For the record: natural gas supplies another 23 percent, nuclear power about 20 percent, hydroelectric power about 7 percent, and everything else the remaining 4 or 5 percent.” With its new-found capital, Ciris specificially plans to build its first commercial-scale projects for “in-situ biochemical conversion of coal to methane,” and to bring its “ex-situ biochemical coal conversion technology to commercial-ready status,” the company said in a press statement. | |
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