Saturday, January 18, 2003

Blogging is Young Age Distribution The following shows the age distribution of LiveJournal users: 13 2149 14 9897 15 26704 16 43772 17 53482 18 53603 19 48856 20 42848 21 32950 22 25639 23 18798 24 14295 25 11732 26 9331 27 7627 28 6579 29 5127 30 4480 31 3778 32 3548 33 2942 34 2221 35 1756 36 1598 37 1292 38 1122 39 870 40 816 41 663 42 695 43 521 44 495 45 421 46 394 47 380 48 309 49 275 50 284 51 219 52 209 53 184 54 167 55 189 [LiveJournal Stats] 7:55:51 PM    comment [] Connections Make connections, make money?. David Galbraith: "The three most successful eCommerce sites in terms of number of paid subscribers are Classmates, Match.com and Ancestry.com - this is not surprising, they are all about networks of people and so is the Internet." James Hong: "I have a theory that the only companies that make money on the net are the ones that serve as 'routers' between two nodes in the decentralized space we call the web."  David Galbraith: Weblogs and bio's:. "In order to link weblogs to bios I am proposing a blogroll format of $name ($blogname): $one_line_bio (maximum 150 characters total). Where this becomes the headline link to either an XML bio or 'about me' page." [evhead]   2:14:12 PM    comment [] LiveJournal Stats The LiveJournal boom. Did you know that LiveJournal is probably the largest weblog service around? Their users seldom read weblogs outside LiveJournal, which is what makes them less visible to outsiders. Here's a company profile from late 2002 which states that LiveJournal boasts a total of 782,000+ users. Of these users, 64% are female, 93% are free accounts, and a large majority of the users are between 15 and 21 years of age. The 729,000 free accounts are made possible because of the 37,000 users that pay. When a user pays, they are contributing a little over $2 a month to pay for LiveJournal and the extra features they have access to. In case you want to see the impressive growth curve, here's a little zipped Excel file for you: LiveJournalStats.zip, based on the data here. (Scroll down to line 625.) I've estimated that if their membership continues to double every year, their user base will surpass in number the population of Canada around 2008. And here's another post on LiveJournal demographics at Unbounded Spiral, a blog that you'll surely enjoy if you like reading (or writing!) Ross Mayfield's weblog. [Seb's Open Research] I don't know where the other 16,000 subscribers went, but its close to being $1M in revenue at 200% CAGR.  Expect AOL, Earthlink and MSN to go after this proposition this year with their declining volume of dialup users.  But at the $2 price point and 5% penetration, thats only a $48M revenue stream for AOL.  So look for more features;  the question is how isolationist their implementations will be. 2:07:51 PM    comment []

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