Viewing User Generated Content seventh most popular online activity in UK …

Posted on March 21, 2007
Filed Under Advertising, Analytics, Mobile, Newspapers, Search, Technology, Tools and Services, Traffic, Travel, Trends, User Generated | Leave a Comment

iLevel Internet Usage statistics - the “Activities on the Web” category is quite interesting - UGC (I guess this covers MySpace etc. as well as reading comments on news sites etc.) is seventh most popular category:

Using e-mail 25.00 million Nov-06 BMRB Internet Monitor
Sourcing Info on Activities/Interests 21.27 million Nov-06 BMRB Internet Monitor
Making Travel Plans 17.05 million Nov-06 BMRB Internet Monitor
Looking at Cinema/Theatre/Concert Listings 14.88 million Nov-06 BMRB Internet Monitor
Listening to Music 12.12 million Nov-06 BMRB Internet Monitor
Looking at Job Opportunities 11.59 million Nov-06 BMRB Internet Monitor
Looking at User Generated Content 11.13 million Nov-06 BMRB Internet Monitor
Downloading Music (whether paid or free) 9.98 million Nov-06 BMRB Internet Monitor
Instant Messaging 9.41 million Nov-06 BMRB Internet Monitor
To watch video clips 9.30 million Nov-06 BMRB Internet Monitor
To play games 9.05 million Nov-06 BMRB Internet Monitor

Concierge.com goes mobile - including guides to over 200 destinations

Posted on February 27, 2007
Filed Under Advertising, Entertainment, Mobile, Sites I Use, Tools and Services, Travel | Leave a Comment

Spotted a brief reference to that fact that concierge.com was going mobile in the Wall Street Journal.

“Go to Concierge.com on your mobile device to get free access to nearly 200 destination guides, plus weather updates, stunning travel images to wallpaper your screen, and Condé Nast Traveler’s Gold List of the top hotels in the world”.

The guides are very good - for example see Amalfi Coast.  From my Nokia E61 it looked like it was just the standard web page - rather than being optimised for this particular device - although it functioned quite well the scrolling made it unworkable.  I think the idea is that you find the destination guide or whatever you want and then get it sent to your phone - you can do this from your desktop machine or mobile although I couldn’t get it work for my UK phone on the T-Mobile network. 

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