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State of the blogosphere – with a Swedish twist

Technorati has just released its latest State of the Blogosphere 2008 report. Technorati now tracks 133 million blogs, but only 1.5 million of those blogs were updated during the last 7 days.

Here are some of the findings, with comments about the Swedish blogosphere as a comparison (from the BlogSweden 3 survey).

– 66% of the bloggers are male. 73% of European bloggers are male. (Swe: 76% are female)
– 50% are 18-34 years (Swe: 55% are 16-25 years)
– Female bloggers: only 9% are 18-24 years (Swe: a large portion, don’t have exact figures right now, are 16-20 years)
– Female bloggers: topics are more likely to be personal. 66% blog about personal musings (Swe: female blog readers like to read blogs about fasion and design (53%) and everyday life experiences (52%)).
– Women blog to stay connected and to make connections. (Swe: Female bloggers blog to a higher extent than male bloggers to get in touch with others and to stay in touch with friends and family)

Personal/lifestyle most popular blog topic.

Sweden: the most popular blog topics to read is “everyday life experiences”.

Self expression and sharing expertise are the top reasons for blogging.

Sweden: self expression (I like to write) most popular reason to blog.

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G1 Google Android phone released

Here is the first video footage of the T-mobile G1 Google Android phone that was launched today in New York. The video shows the touch-based interface with its innovative solution for locking the phone through a gesture based code instead of a pin code.

The G1 will be available in the U.S. on 22 October 2008 for $179. Via Cool Hunting.

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Lifestream.fm comes out of beta

The feed aggregation site Lifestream.fm has now come out of beta and is open to the public. It has also added some new features, such as a “beam-it-up-scotty” service, that lets users send links to a mobile phone, and a few other enhancements to make sharing easier.

Footnote: You will find me here on Lifestream.fm.

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Chrome grabs 2.6 percent market share

Google’s new web browser Chrome has quickly made an impact on the market. After just three days it has already grabbed a 2.6% market share, at least according to statistics by Get Clicky. The statistics say that Chrome on Sept 3 was up to 3.1 percent and it will be interesting to see how much of this traffic comes from users that test Chrome and then go back to their previous browser.

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Facebook not quite dead yet

Swedish media recently proclaimed that Facebook’s days of glory were over (although that particular article misinterpreted some facts from an article in the Guardian). Now it seems that those assumptions might have been a bit premature. TechCrunch writes that Facebook has caught up with the leading social networking site MySpace in terms of unique monthly worldwide visitors, according to data by Comscore. Both sites now have about 115 million visitors each per month.

In February, Adam Erlandsson at Svenska Dagbladet, wrote: “who knows, in six months me might be looking back at the beginning of 2008 as the start of the death of Facebook. But at the moment there are absolutely no proof that that is the case.” Well put. And four months later the signs point in the opposite direction.

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