Though the small-cap finance world is generally a little slower at adopting new tools and technologies, it does tend to give weight to solid statistics and numbers. To this end, here is a summary of the Technorati “State of The Live Web”:
- 70 million weblogs
- About 120,000 new weblogs each day, or…
- 1.4 new blogs every second
- 1.5 million posts per day, or…
- 17 posts per second
- Growing from 35 to 75 million blogs took 320 days
- Japanese the #1 blogging language at 37%
- English second at 33%
- Chinese third at 8%
- Italian fourth at 3%
- Farsi a newcomer in the top 10 at 1%
- English the most even in postings around-the-clock
- Tracking 230 million posts with tags or categories
- 35% of all February 2007 posts used tags
- 2.5 million blogs posted at least one tagged post in February
Conclusion – The jury is in. Blogs and the blogosphere are in invaluable IR tool for small-cap companies looking to create better awareness and shareholder lead generation.
Best,
George