Blogosphere

For nearly updating and posting the blogs, for more than 1.5 year, i am able to celebrate the Silver jubliee of my Blog, as i am writing the 26th post of my blog, the readers(including me) crossed 500+ mark, yet this is just the beginning for the long road ahead. Thanks to all the people who has visited this blog, and posted their comments.

Some more facts and gyaan about blogging: -

The word "BLOG" dates back to 1999 (coined by blogger and entrepreneur Peter Merholz) and the popular site blogger.com was started in the same year (by Pyra labs now owned by Google), but the main reason for blogging getting so much popular was during the entries made by the people during the U.S. president elections in 2004.

Key findings done by Comscore include the following:

50 million U.S. Internet users visited blog sites in the first quarter of 2005. That is roughly 30% of all U.S. Internet users and 1 in 6 of the total U.S. population·

Five hosting services for blogs each had more than 5 million unique visitors in that period, and four individual blogs had more than 1 million visitors each·

Of 400 of the biggest blogs observed, segmented by seven (nonexclusive) categories, political blogs were the most popular, followed by "hipster" lifestyle blogs, tech blogs and blogs authored by women

Compared to the average Internet user, blog readers are significantly more likely to live in wealthier households, be younger and connect to the Web on high-speed connections

Blog readers also visit nearly twice as many web pages as the Internet average, and they are much more likely to shop online.

So the total number of blogs in world is reaching nearly 140 million.

Here is a brief info about the number of blogs according to country and Host

By country:

Australia: approx 450,000 Still not a lot of hard figures here, but based on report in the Australian Newspaper 19 May 05 and allowing for growth since. Like other members of the Anglosphere though its hard to quantify blog numbers due to the dominance of US blogging firms and .com domains

Austria: approx 20,000Ref: Loic Le Meur

Belgium: approx 100,000 skynet: 68,000. There are problems with a definite Belgium count because of the split between French and Dutch speakers. It’s likely that some Belgium bloggers use services in the Netherlands and France, + naturally the Anglosphere offerings.

Bosnia and Herzegovina: less than 3,000 LJ: 1300. Rest unknown

Brunei: less than 3,000 LJ,Blogsphere and others.

Canada: approx 700,000 approximation, difficult to ascertain due to the Anglosphere problem, LJ shows 285,000

China: 6 million and growingref : South China Morning Post.

Croatia: approx 50,000 blog.hr which now has just short of 40,000 blogs + a little more for other sites.

Czech Republic: approx 10,000Ref: Loic

Denmark: approx 15,000Overskrift.dk has nearly 6,000, Smartlog 2,200, Loic has some earlier figures here.

Finland: approx 100,000 Media=blogi Same as last quater, unable to ascertain any new figures.

France: approx 3.5 millionBusinessweek called it 3 million back in July, and yet Skyblog alone now has 3 million. Ublog 65,000, Canalblog 64,200, Loic for other older figures.

Germany: 300,000 Hugo Martin from June + a little growth on this figure. Unlike France which is dominated by Skyblogs, German bloggers appear to be all over the place.

Greece: less than 5,000ref: Loic

India: approx 100,000Financial Express, same figure as last quarter as I couldn’t find anything more up to date but I suspect the number may be a lot more. Certainly India has its own blog awards now as well, and are mentioned in the press.

Iran: 700,000Yes, this is a remarkable number, but I have it on research from Koorsh Eslamzade, but would note like all the figures here these are total blog numbers and not active blog numbers (which are between 40,000 and 110,000).Persian Blog: 520,000 , Blogfa :55,000, Blogsky: 20,000, Mihanblog: 25,000, Parsiblog: 7,000 , Perianlog: 9,500
Ireland: approx 75,000Loic says 9,000, I don’t believe the figure could be low considering the “Irish economic miracle” of the 1990’s and Irelands continued status of growth and IT friendliness, although the population of just over 4 million people is always going to produce a fairly low figure. Problem again that most Irish bloggers would use Anglosphere blogging sites.

Israel: approx 100,000

Italy: approx 250,000Splinder: 144,000, Excite: 17,500, Bloggers.it: 13,500, Timblog: 12,000, ilcannocchiale.it: 12,000, Aruba: 6,000, LJ: 7,500 + others per Loic.

Japan: at least 5.5 millionAsk Jeeves Japan is currently tracking 5.2 million blogs, suspect the number is much higher again.

Malaysia: approx 20,000The Star + LJ. Difficult to ascertain as many would blog on anglosphere services such as Blogger.

The Netherlands: approx 600,000ref: Loic


Philippines: approx 75,000LJ + Pinoy. Could be significantly larger as writers are using Anglosphere services.

Poland: approx 1.5 milliononet.pl 825,000, Tenbit 228,000 , mylog.pl : 134,500, eblog.pl: 90,00, Blog.pl: 70,000, Blogi.pl: 37,500, Blogx.pl: 44,000 and Ownlog.pl: 13,500 = 1,442,500 + minor services= 1.5 million

Russia: approx 400,000LJ: 218,000 users. Loic claims 800,000 but I’m putting the figure at 400,000 without any hard evidence, although likely more

South Korea: approx 20 million.

Spain: approx 1.5 millionTerra.es reports 1 million MSN Spaces + others.

Ukraine: 50,000Loic, not updates from last quarter

United Kingdom: 2.5 million1.5 million UK residents using Spaces as of the end of June (Terra.es ). 227,000+ UK users on Live Journal. Anglosphere problem in estimating figure as many UK bloggers using US services, see notes from July blog count.

United States: approx 30-50 millionImpossible to calculate although there are 4 million on LiveJournal and 3 million on Spaces. Reports that Myspaces hosts 20 million.

By host (over 500,000)Note: these are based on known and rough figures based on media reports and other sources.

Xanga: 40 millionre: WPXI
MySpace: 20-30 millionmost recent number here. Not sure how many are blogging though,have read the figure was 20 million hence 20-30 million, these are also “private blogs” and are not indexed on sites such as Technorat. MSN Spaces: 18 millionTerra.es + growth over the quarter

Blogger: 15 million +

Cyworld: 13 million

SixApart (Live Journal/ TypePad, MT): 11 millionSixApart figure in recent media releases

Planet Weblog Service: 6 millionLeading South Korean blogging provider (same as last qaurter as no new figure available)

Yahoo Blogs Korea: 3 million

Skyblog: 3 million

Bokee: 2 million

Greatest Journal: 1.16 million
Other US Live Journal clones: 1 millionref: Perseus

onet.pl 825,000,

Persian Blog: 520,000

Thwe blogs has now also became a source of revenue for lots of advertiser on the net, and will emerge as one of the great arena for marketing and advertising.

So go on and Happy Blogging...........................

Exuberance - 2006

Exuberance - 2006 that is what we call for our placement process for the batch of 2006, and this day of 7th Jan 2006 all of the batch of PGP-II is placed in one or the other of the top notch company in India and Abroad. Whole of the PGP-II was seen on the roads when they heard the news that there Batch is finally and fully placed. The amount of happiness and laughter on there face is unmeasurable.

We have companies coming for laterals and freshers and most of them for both. Day 1 Placements for XIMB started today (7th January 2006) for the batch of 2004-2006. Placements for Laterals had already been finished, all the placement before this date is termed as Day 0 (Zero).

Companies, which recruited laterals, were ATOS Origin, JP Morgan, E&Y, McKc, Mindtree Consulting, GenPact, Accenture, ITC Infotech, HP, IBM, Infosys, TCS, iGATE, Wipro Technologies, Progeon, PCS and many more... They gave in a total of 85 offers. The major recruiters for laterals have been Infosys with 8 offers, TCS with 5 and Wipro with 9. The important fact to notice is that these figures do not include the number of Pre-Placement Offers / Interviews (PPOs and PPIs) which amount to 20. The highest international salary package was provided by OLAM International.

The work done by the previous and the existing Placement committee is highly commendable. they had really worked really hard day and night to place the batch with a good number of offers and choosing the company of their choice. Three cheers to them.

PGP-I to has played a important role as a facilitator to the various companies. The whole batch eas divided into committies such as Control desk - taking care of all the nitty-gritties from keeping the track of the companies coming to the campus, the place where the process is to be scheduled, Venue committe responsible for the venue where the PPT talks and interview process was schduled.

Students committee taking care of the applicants of each company and making them available at the right time at the right place, PPT committee - responsible to see the PPT presentations are going smoothly, Food committee - responsible for providing food, snacks for the Interviewrs, Company coordinators- they the person who has to stick to the officials of the company providing everything possible to them, Transport committee - responsible for all the transportation activity and logistic.

At the end what matters is that everyone was happy and most ofthem has got the company of their choice.