Search engines , mobile phones , online shopping, Social Networking Sites. These are the things which we can’t really do without nowadays can we? Well this is a list of the most influential players in our digital age including facts which you may not yet know.


 Social Networking Giant
   
   Facebook has pretty much dominated most of the digital world with more than 7 % of the world’s humans having a Facebook account. That’s a whopping 500 million users.You probably know of some friends who are on the social networking site 24/7 . 50 % of active users log onto the site everyday and the average person has 130 friends. The company , founded by Mark Zuckerburg out of his college dorm is now estimated to be worth US $50 billion.

MMORPG Giant

   There were as many as 11.5 million World of Warcraft Subscribers in 2010, of which, half of them from Asia , 22% from North America and 17 % from Europe. 1 of every 5 players are female .Also,if you total the subscription fee of just players from North America and Europe , a whopping 800 million dollars, it would surpass the GDP of several small nations such as Samoa.

The Most Visited Site

   According to Alexa, a Web Information Company which analyses the amount of traffic , demographic and other statistics of websites, these are the top 10 most visited sites in the world:

1. Google
2. Facebook
3. Youtube
4. Yahoo
5. Live
6. Baidu
7. Wikipedia
8. Blogger
9. MSN
10. Tencent


Most Used Search Engines
   
   Not surprisingly, the most popular search engine in the world is Google, with 47 % of all Internet users visiting the site everyday.That’s probably how you reached this site right? A recent estimation has shown that Google is now worth $163.2 billion. The 2nd most popular search engine , Yahoo, has been ousted from it’s number 1 spot years ago and now only reaches out to 9 % of internet users.

Internet Browser Giant
      
   The Internet Browser is something we turn on everyday to surf the net but we really do take it for granted don’t we ? Below is the percentage of Internet Browsers used by the internet community.
1. Internet Explorer: 27.5%
2. Firefox: 43.5%
3. Google Chrome : 22.4%
4. Opera :2.2%


Handphone Giants

1. Apple iPhone 4
2. Nokia 3720 Classic
3. HTC HD2
4. Apple iPhone 3G
5. Nokia E52
6. Samsung I9000 Galaxy S
7. Nokia 6700 Classic
8. HTC Desire
9. Nokia 6303 Classic
10. Samsung B2100

   As there has been no objective study being done on the sale of phones in the world, the closest thing we have is the top 10 list of handphone covers being sold by Krusell, a Swedish handphone cover manufacturer that reaches out to more than 70 countries. From this list, we can derive the top handphones being sold worldwide as well. The iPhone took the world by storm , skyrocketing to become the most popular handphone available today. According the Jobs, there are approximately 100 millions iPhone users today. However, the actual number of users could be lesser due to probable loss or damage of a fraction of them.It’s competitor, Samsung’s Galaxy S is showing potential, selling more than 10 million units since it’s launch in 2010.


Hottest Tablet

   Apple’s iPad sold 3 million units in its first 80 days at market, setting a pace likely to put it ahead of the iPhone and all Netbooks for first full-quarter sales. Apple will have sold 8.5 million iPads in the US by the end of this year. The iPad was also the most popular Christmas gift of 2010.

Most Sought-after Products
   
   As the top choice for shopping in the United States, eBay comes up with a list of the most searched and purchased items every year. The 2010 list is below:

1. iPhone 4
2. Barbie
3. Military jackets
4. Hot Wheels
5. iPad
6. World Cup
7. The Beatles
8. Silly Bandz
9. Alice in Wonderland
10. New Orleans Saints
11. Marc Jacobs
12. LeBron James

On the other hand,the most purchased item on Amazon is the Kindle , which took over JK Rowling’s novel Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows.


Most Expensive Item Available Online
  
The Victorians ,a ceramic painting by Catia Nanni , is painted with oxides on ceramic tiles mounted on a wooden board measuring just 20×20 cm .US $21 Million! That’s the price you the painter is asking for. The item “GORGEOUS CERAMIC PAINTING BY ITALIAN ARTIST CATIA NANNI”can be found on eBay.


Highest Viewed Youtube Video

   It would be pretty anticlimactic if I told you that the most watched video in the world today belongs to a 16 year old boy. But sadly, it’s true. Justin Bieber’s music video, Baby is currently at the top with more than 435 million views.

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