148 mln Americans viewed Web widgets in November 2007

In November 2007, nearly 148 mln US Internet users viewed widgets, representing 81% of the total audience, according to comScore. MySpace.com widgets had the widest audience, reaching more than 57 mln Internet users, while Slide.com ranked second with 39.2 mln viewers.

Widget	Audience, 000	Reach in US
US Widget Viewers	147,904	81.1%
MySpace.com	57,747	31.7%
Slide.com	39,213	21.5%
Clearspring.com	39,159	21.5%
RockYou.com	32,557	17.9%
Photobucket.com	26,434	14.5%
Google.com	19,436	10.7%
BunnyHeroLabs.com	16,123	8.8%
MusicPlaylist.us	15,844	8.7%
MyPlaylist.org	15,586	8.5%
BlingyBlob.com	14,967	8.2%

Published on: February 4, 2008 Department: Software, Software dev, Web traffic

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Virtual economies employ 400,000 people in 2008
PC gaming generated $10.7 bln in 2007
Video game hardware and software sales up 28% in July 2008
EAS market in the Czech Republic declined 4.5% YTY in 2007
VMware has 82% share of market of virtualized servers, Microsoft has 13%
RDBMS market reached $18.8 bln in 2007
Virtualization growth rising from 46% in 2007 to 54% in 2008
Location-based mobile social networking to generate $3.3 bln by 2012
65% of US households play video games, 38% have consoles, 40% are female
Malware rates up 278% in the first half of 2008
Global RDBMS market: Oracle - 44.3%, IBM - 21%, Microsoft - 15.8%
Medium-sized business enterprise applications market will grow to $80.3 bln by the end of 2012
24% of European households don’t have landlines
The Brazilian IT market will grow to $24 bln
Open source software to generate $4.83 bln by 2012
Video game sales reached $1.12 bln in May 2008
70% of girls say writing on a computer makes no difference in the quality of their writing, compared with 57% of boys
Casual games generate $2.25 bln annually
210 mln corporate mailboxes run on Exchange in 2008
Video game hardware and software sales up 47% in April 2008
Open-source databases to generate $270 mln in 2008
Enterprise CMS market to grow 12.6% in EMEA by 2012
NAS storage grew 15.8% in Q4 2007
Global storage software market in 2007
Global storage software market grew to $2.9 bln in Q4 2007
Global storage software revenues in Q4 2007
49 out of top 100 sites use Apache
31% of medium US businesses use SaaS
Game software sales up 21% in Germany in 2007
Software sales reached $3.3 bln in US in 2007
34% of North Americans use IM monthly
North American contact center applications earned $2.49 bln in 2006
Enterprise software to generate $190.7 bln in 2008
5.49 mln unique samples of malicious software in 2007
148 mln Americans viewed Web widgets in November 2007
US software sales up 15% in 2007
81% of Chinese Internet users have IM, 56.5% use e-mail
Firefox reached 28% in Europe by year-end 2007
Middle East and North Africa ERP market up 33%
Software solutions market in the Middle East and North Africa grew to 36% in 2007
100 mln copies of Vista sold in 2007
Firefox and IE market shares in December 2007
Asia Pacific SOA market to grow at 40% a year
20% of companies use wikis
IM attacks: 45% on MSN Messenger, 20% on Yahoo! IM, 19% on AIM
4.5 mln US households to run home servers by 2012
73.2% of Americans have not heard of Google Docs
70% of companies view SaaS as opportunity
European Web conferencing software generated $136.3 mln in 2006
Business process management suite market grew 80% in 2006
Indian small and medium businesses to spend $640 mln on packaged software in 2007
SAAS to grow at 22.1% a year
Portal, process and middleware software generated $3.8 bln in 2006
RDBMS market up 14.2% in 2006
IT ops management software up 11.4% in 2006
Global storage software market in Q1 2007
Open software generated $1.8 bln in 2006
EMEA storage management software to generate $3.2 bln in 2010
Business support systems up 6.8% in 2006
Data integration tools to generate $2.6 bln by 2011
19 mln software developers by 2010
$74 bln worth of acquisitions on enterprise apps market in 2004-2006
EMEA ERP market generated $8.1 bln in 2006
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Worldwide storage software market in Q4 2006
25% of software developers have used MySQL
Only 30% of the time spent on BI will be spent on technology
Mapping apps generate $1.5 bln annually
33% of US medium businesses are using ERP solutions
Open source software to grow at 13.8% a year
Software as a service generated $6.3 bln in 2006
Top-selling software in 2006: MS Office, TurboTax, Norton Internet Security, Quickbooks
Spreadsheet management software market to generate $500 mln by 2011
Firefox share at 10.7% in November 2006
Asia-Pacific application networking to generate $296 mln
Digital creation software to generate $16 bln by 2010
Security compliance and control to generate $7.4 bln in 2006
Middle East and North African enterprise application software market generated $187 mln in 2005
Virtual machines generated $560 mln in 2005
Payroll application grew 4.1% in Western Europe in 2005
Number of software vendors offering subscriptions is down in 2006
36% of Americans use instant messaging at home, 0% growth from 2005
September 2006 browser market shares
8% of CRM software in 2005 was sold as a service
Russian enterprise application suite market grew 21% in 2005
25% of software revenues to be generated by SaaS by 2011
Business intelligence platforms up 15.5% in 2005
Adobe Acrobat Readers runs on 500 mln PCs
Storage software market up 8.6% in Q2 2006
MPEG encoders to generate $555 mln in 2010
Asia-Pacific applications market generated $1.26 bln in 2005
Antivirus sales generated $4 bln in 2005
Asia-Pacific applications market to reach $2.08 bln by 2010
EMEA CRM market up 10% in 2005
European mechanical apps market generated $2.3 bln in 2005
SCM apps generated $56.5 mln in China in Q2 2006
RDBMS market reached $267.6 mln in China in 2005
Remote access services to grow at 34% a year
Enterprise apps in Slovakia up 33% in 2005
Asia-Pacific business intelligence market generated $340 mln in 2005
Asia-Pacific EDA market generated $524.7 mln in 2005
US SMBs to pay $6 bln in software licenses in 2010
Storage management software to grow at 8.6% a year
Architecture and construction apps generated $1.46 bln in 2005
European EDA market generated $783.2 mln in 2005
Content management market leaders: EMC, FileNet, IBM, OpenText
Application acceleration to grow 37% in 2006
Browser shares in July 2006: IE - 75.88%, Firefox - 13.71%
Czech enterprise app market grew 24% in 2005
Content access tools generated $976 mln in 2005
Web conferencing to grow at 19.5% a year
EMEA DBMS market up 5.8% in 2005
URL filtering generated $300 mln in 2005
Asia-Pacific CRM market up 13.8% in 2005
Digital asset management to grow at 25% a year
Asia-Pacific content management market generated $127.6 mln in 2005
VMWare owns 55% of virtualization market
Operating environment software generated $1.86 bln in 2005 in Asia-Pacific
CRM software market up 13.7% in 2005
EMEA IT operation software up 14% in 2005
IM market in May 2006: MSN - 204 mln, Yahoo! - 78 mln, AIM - 34 mln, ICQ - 33.9 mln
Global ERP market up 5.2% in 2005
Database management systems software up 5.8% in Europe in 2005
Personal firewalls generated $160 mln in 2005
Business rule engine software to grow by 9.2% a year
Enterprise e-mail and calendars up 11% in 2005
Global storage management software up 8.8% in 2005
IT operation management software generated $9.9 bln in 2005
End-user spending on speech recognition software to generate $191 mln in 2010
Application acceleration generated $344 mln in Q1 2006
Global ERP market up 5.2% in 2005
Enterprise application suites in Central and Eastern Europe to grow at 18% a year
Global storage software market up 10.2% in Q1 2006
Application integration and middleware generated $8.5 bln in 2005
RDBMS market growth numbers
Open source software to replace 22% of commercial software in the next 5 years
Supply chain management software apps grew 2.6% annually
IT operations management software generated $9.9 bln in 2005
RDBMS market up 8.3% in 2005
Project and portfolio management software market up 6.7% in 2005
35% of software in the world is pirated
18% of drivers need navigation maps 20% of the time
RDBMS market up 9.4% in 2005
Firefox global share is at 11.79% in May 2006
20% of organizations use an open source business intelligence system
Russia has piracy rate of 87%
Western European market for analytic apps to grow at 10.3% a year
Asia-Pacific DBMS market to grow at 10.5% a year
Top buyers of vertical industry software: financial services, discrete manufacturing, communications
US SMB infrastructure software market to generate $13.3 bln in 2009
Asia-Pacific business intelligence market to reach $259.3 mln in 2009
In March 2006 Firefox broke the global 10% market share threshold
ERP market to grow at 7.7% a year
Product lifecycle management market to reach $12 bln in 2006
Top storage software vendors in 2005: EMC, Symantec, IBM
Storage software market leaders in Q4 2005: EMC, Symantec, IBM
Worldwide storage software market up 11.2% in Q4 2005
Workforce performance management to grow at 16.3% a year
Western European CRM market generated $2.549 bln in 2004
SAP owns 41% of Western European ERP market
Global business intelligence market will generate $2.5 bln in 2006
EMEA business intelligence software up 10% in 2004
Top-selling software titles in 2005: TurboTax, Norton AntiVirus, Spy Sweeper Tech Bench
Global browser shares: IE - 85.8%, Firefox - 11.2%
62% of marketers happy with their Web analytics package
Packaged software market to grow 11.1% in 2006 in Asia-Pacific
33% of Western European companies run open source databases
PC games sales down 14% in 2005
21 mln TurboTax users in 2005
Firefox reaches 20% share in Europe
Western European government GIS market to reach $280 mln by 2009
Top storage software vendors: EMC, Symantec, IBM
35% of software is pirated
EMEA supply chain management software market will generate $1 bln by 2009
Asia-Pacific DBMS sales up 15.4% in 2004
40% of helpdesk calls are related to password problems
EMEA content, communications and collaboration software reached $1.2 bln in 2004
20% of CRM revenues will come from mobile CRM in 2010
Global DBMS market will generate $13.2 bln by 2009
Wordlwide ERP market up 9.4% in 2004
Most popular open source technologies in the enterprise: Linux, Apache, Python, Tomcat
DRM software demand to grow at 106.1%% a year, reach $3.6 bln by 2008
Czech enterprise app market up 11.7% in 2005
Firefox share reaches 8.59% in September 2005
Firefox global share reached 11.5% in October 2005, USA share reached 14.1%
Enterprise management software to reach $3.7 bln in 2009 in EMEA
Mobile middleware to generate $1.4 bln by 2009
64% of IT managers evaluating CDP products
74% of employers building benefit portals value access to benefit policies
Enterprise management software up 19.7% in EMEA
Business intelligence services to reach $23.2 bln by 2009
Business intelligence reporting and analysis topped $5.5 bln in 2005
Electronic design automation software to reach $5.7 bln by 2009
17.6% of Asian-Pacific companies are using system management software
On-demand CRM market shares: Salesforce.com - 49.5%, RightNow - 13.5%
Application maintenance costs 11% of the app price
EMEA ERP market up 8% in 2004
Business intelligence software up 12% in 2004
Supply chain management software down 0.2% in EMEA
Mechanical apps to grow 13.5% in 2005
Speech recognition telephony to generate $173 mln in 2009
Financial compliance process management software to grow at 19% a year
Business intelligence market in India grew at 27.09% a year
37% of SOHO customers don’t buy IAS, since separate voice and data services present a good value
Russian enterprise application software sales up 53.4% in 2004
Application integration, middleware and portals to grow at 8.2% a year in Asia-Pacific
Accounting applications to generate $586.8 mln in 2009
CRM market up 10% in 2004, hosted CRM up 105%
$498 mln of educational software sold in 2000, $152 mln in 2004
Only 20% of IT executives are satisfied with CRM integration
Application delivery market up 23% in Q4 2004
Global ERP software sales up 9.4% in 2004
Supply chain app revenue up 3.3% in 2004
4.4 mln US households are editing digital movies
European architecture, engineering and construction software market up 16.8% in 2004
Application integration, middleware and portals grew 7.5% in 2004
2D and 3D scientific visualisation market to generate $10.7 bln in 2005
Mechanical apps generated $2.1 bln in 2004
Enterprise content management market to grow 10.6% a year
Asia-Pacific database management systems market to grow at 10.3% a year
64% of Canadian computer science students have pirated commercial software
Web conferencing and collaboration software up 14.2% in 2004
Content management system software sales to grow at 16.6% a year in Asia-Pacific
Operations support systems to generate $19.7 bln in 2005
Project and portfolio management software up 12.3% in 2004
Architecture, engineering and construction software grew 14.9% in 2004
ERP software revenues up 9.3% in 2004
CRM software market grew 8% in 2004
Linux relational database shares: Oracle - 81%, IBM - 17%
Location-based services to generate 274 mln euros in Europe in 2005
Application deployment software market leaders: IBM, BEA, Oracle
29% of companies purchased a solution for SarBox, 26% - for HIPAA
Services integration market to grow at 4.6% a year and reach $89.9 bln by 2009
Global CRM market is worth $3.2 bln in 2005
Only 10% of companies deployed identity management
Collaboration software to generate $1.1 bln by 2008
Firefox share up to 8.71% in June 2005
57% of teenagers support file sharing
Asia-Pacific business intelligence market topped $233.2 mln in 2004
Medium businesses to spend $16 bln on applications in 2005
Global software market to reach 214.8 bln euros in 2006, 270 bln in 2008
European app integration and middleware market to grow 7.4% in 2005
Polish enterprise application software market up 25.3% in 2004
Browser market share in May 2005: IE - 87.23%, Firefox - 8%
Western European supply chain management software market grew 6.5% in 2004
Asian-Pacific network management market generated $175.2 mln in 2004
Global storage software market up 14.9% in Q1 2005
Global software market worth 190.1 bln euros in 2002
Fortune 1000 app servers: 43.6% use ASP.NET, 12.2% use J2EE, 5.2% use PHP
Factory automation tools market grew 97% in 2004
30% of Finnish and 24% of German Web users prefer Firefox
A security vulnerability causes software company stock to fall by 0.63%
Israeli enterprise software market generated $52.14 mln in 2004
84% of profits in software industry are generated by top 15 companies
$386.4 mln of system management software sold in Asia-Pacific in 2004
Average Web user has 3 adware applications
CRM software to grow less than 5% in Western Europe
Relational database market generated $7.8 bln in 2004
Relational database sales reached $7.79 bln in 2004, Oracle and IBM tied for top spot
44% of UK small businesses ready to pay for hosted applications
Storage management generated $5.6 bln in 2004
Global software sales to reach 270 bln euros in 2008
Major obstacle to electronic health records: 55.5% name funding
Application management market generated $17.9 bln in 2004
Corporate intranet users name search the top priority
What online users installed: 98.3% have Flash, 87.6% have Java, 87.1% have Acrobat Reader
35% of PC software installed in 2004 was pirated
$4.2 bln spent on software as a service in 2004
IDC names largest business software ecosystems: SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft
Infrastructure software generated $6.7 bln in 2004
US Trade Representative published a list of countries with highest piracy rates
25 car models run Microsoft software
April 2005 browser market share: IE - 83.07%, Firefox - 10.28%
Application integration and middleware market worth $6.7 bln in 2004
Firefox preferred by 10% of business users
Electronic design automation revenues up 2.8% in 2004
191 buyouts in enterprise applications market within the past 15 months
Voice verification was a $45.9 mln market in 2004
Real-time business analytics market to be worth $10 bln in 2005
Firefox site visitors are 71% male
73% of software in India is pirated
Financial compliance software to generate $1.1 bln in 2005, $2 bln by 2009
Content management generated $2.93 bln in 2003
Firefox share at 6.17% in February 2005
Biller direct invoice processing to grow at 28% a year
Dynamic enterprise publishing software market to reach $1 bln by 2009
Will writing software up 63% in Q1 2005
31% of Australian PCs had pirated Microsoft software
Storage software market generated $7.9 bln in 2004, led by EMC, Veritas, CA, IBM
Russian IT solutions and infrastructure market up 29.1% in 2004
Relational database management systems sales up 11.6% in 2004
Unified messaging applications market generated $489.7 mln in 2003
Less than 5% of Web users use RSS readers
Core and predictive analytics to grow 7.7% and 8% a year
Microsoft Outlook has 60% of corporate e-mail client market
$213 bln will be spent on software in 2005
Nationwide electronic health network will cost $276 bln
$79 mln of software was pirated in December 2004
$1.54 bln will be spent on e-commerce platforms in 2008
CRM software market to grow at 9% a year
Single sign-on solutions to grow at 9.4% a year
60% of companies will use open source to some extent by the end of 2005
Top 20 companies own 60% of European solution services market
Pakistan software piracy rate reaches 83%
Electronic patient record solutions generated $1.1 bln in 2004
Enterprise resource management software generated $152.9 mln in China, $102.8 mln in Australia, $53.2 mln in Korea
Software piracy in UK is at 29%
2% of ERP apps run on Linux today, 15% to run on Linux in three years
Spending on speech-enabled self-service apps to double by 2008
Baltic enterprise application software market to grow 17% in 2004
70 mln download protected intellectual property, software piracy totals $20 bln
Corporate instant messaging leaders - Akonix, FaceTime, IBM, IMlogic, Jabber, Microsoft
Average corporate user accesses network remotely 8-24 times a month
Russian software market is estimated at $4.5-5 bln
Software market to generate $189 bln in 2004, led by Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, SAP
Firefox has 3% of the browser market share, IE on decline
Philippine market for service solitions to reach $372 mln in 2007
$13.6 bln will be spent on healthcare applications by 2008
In 2006 45.7% of software will be subscription-based, 23% - license-based
Swedish software market to grow at 5.1% a year
Small business spending on CRM software grew 15% in 2003
34% of software sold in 2008 will be subscription-based
CAD software and services to generate $2.1 bln in 2004
Software bestsellers for August 2004
75% of companies plan to invest into service-oriented architectures in 2005
Embedded systems market to grow at 6.27% a year
24% of all games sold in Japan are for mobile devices
Software piracy in Ukraine is at 91%
48 vulnerabilities discovered in Windows software weekly
Asia-Pacific content management software market to grow at 14.9% till 2008
Software vendors spent $5 bln on partner programs in 2003
Arab Gulf storage software market grew 32% in 2004
UK interactive software market doubled in 6 years
Automatic identification shop-floor software to generate $135 mln by 2007
Chinese software market to double in the next 5 years
Feds will spend $5.6 bln on ERP in 2004
20% of IT costs is software
CRM software market will generate $11.4 bln by 2008
43% of open-source database users use them for mission-critical tasks
Video game sales up 1% in units, down 2.5% in revenues
79% of successful CRM launches took timing into account
PC gaming market declines 14.3% in 2003
Product data management market to increase 1% in 2004
37% of European software is pirated
60%, $29 bln of global software is pirated
80% of companies employing BPM get 15% ROI
Software deployment market grew 4% in 2003
Autralian CRM market netted $426 mln in 2003
90% of SMBs run Microsoft
Database market shares: Oracle - 40%, IBM - 31%, Microsoft - 12.1%
Database market grows 5.1%, Microsoft gains 11%
Search software market generated $617 mln in 2003
25% of critical F1K data is corrupted
Data backup software sales grow 7.9% in 2003
Chinese software market grew 24% in 2003
More than $1 bln of online games sold in 2003
Software sales to grow 7.4% in 2004, driven largely by Microsoft
XML, Web services popular among Western European banks
Clustering software to grow 8.5%
43% of software vendors and only 26% of customers prefer software subscriptions
Sun StarOffice installed on 30% of Linux desktops in Germany, 7% worldwide
Microsoft’s code sharing program reaches 1 millionth mark
Storage software market grew 17.7% in Q4 2003, 8% in 2003
82% of companies don’t take advantage of existing software apps
Top selling software products in 2003
India’s software industry to grow 23% this year
GBP 1.5 bln wasted on needless software
34% of IT spending will go towards supplier-customer interaction
Chinese software piracy rate is at 96%
China to lead EIP $29.4 mln industry
Merchant Traffic Manager market to grow at 42% yearly
Successful CRMs yield 16-1000% ROI
IT firms are the biggest pirates in UK
79% of Russian software is pirated
Speech Recognition Centers Reduce Call Time by 35%
CRM market to reach $10.8 bln in 2004
Malaysian software revenues grew 5.5% in 2003
IDC: Integration software market to grow to $5 bln by 2007
Storage software up 11.4% in Q1-Q3 2003
Winter Corp. publishes the largest databases
IDC: 87% of software in Russia is pirated
Gartner: Half of software companies dead by 2008
IDC on messaging applications market
Gartner: Virtualization software to triple in the next 5 years
CRM spending among small businesses
Rethink: IT priorities in EU
Gartner: IBM, EDS tops in services
IDC: Storage up in Q2
IDC: Chinese software market to grow 28% yearly
QNB: J2EE bigger than .NET in EU
Imaging technologies spending in finance and banking
Antivirus software to grow to $4.4B in 2007
Worldwide Analytic Applications Software Market to Reach Over $4.8 Billion in 2007

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