There's a fun dialog going on between Jeff Pulver, Moshe Maeir, and Shel Israel over Facebook adoption in Israel. It's sprinting towards 100K users. As Jeff notes, that's a little more than 1% of the total population. Since October 14th, when Jeff spoke at VON Israel, it's grown from 70,000 to 97,000, which is remarkable since Israel is first and foremost a Hebrew speaking nation, not English.
Just for fun, I checked some other statistics from English speaking countries.
- The USA has 19,951,900 Facebook users, out of a total population of 301,139,947. 6.6% of Americans are Facebook users.
- The UK has 6,407,580 Facebook users, out of a total population of 60,776,238. 10.5% of UK residents are Facebook users.
- Australia has 1,498,320 Facebook users, out of a total population of 20,434,176. 7.3% of Australians are Facebook users.
- Canada has 7,361,720 Facebook users, out of a total population of 33,390,141. 22% of Canadians are Facebook users.
Canadians are daffy for Facebook.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
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