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Internet Index #25
From: mea culpa <jericho () DIMENSIONAL COM>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 10:38:44 -0700
[Moderator: While not security related, this is great info. ;)] From: treese () openmarket com The Internet Index Number 25 Inspired by "Harper's Index"* Compiled by Win Treese (treese () openmarket com) Co-author of "Designing Systems for Internet Commerce" 30 November 1999 Number of e-mail messages I needed to change a name server address with Network Solutions: 7 Number of faxes: 2 Number of phone calls: 2 Total number of days before the change was processed: 31 Number of US cities with greater than 50% Internet penetration among adults: 5 Amount of the SEC budget reallocated by Congress to investigate financial fraud on the Internet, in millions of dollars: 5.5 Number of web sites reviewed each week in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: 50 Number of stores at the Saint Louis (Missouri) Galleria barred from promoting e-commerce: 170 Number of dot-com balloons in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: 2 Estimated spending in France for Internet advertising, in millions of francs: 350 Estimated percentage of US small businesses with web sites: 37 Estimated 1999 revenues of ISP market in the US, in billions of dollars: 15.1 Number of people sued by the US Securities and Exchange Commission for illegally offering securities for sale on eBay: 3 Rank of Microsoft for spending on Internet advertising, in 1998: 1 Rank of Volvo: 43 Estimated percentage of total ad agency billings from dot-com companies, from January to October, 1999: 30 Sale price of the domain name name "business.com", in millions of dollars: 7.5 Estimated number of Internet users in China, in millions: 4 Percentage of adults in the UK who use the Internet: 27 See http://www.treese.org/Commerce for more information on "Designing Systems for Internet Commerce" Copyright 1999 by Win Treese. Send updates or interesting statistics to treese () openmarket com. "Harper's Index" is a registered trademark of Harper's Magazine Foundation. Past issues and citations to sources can be found at http://www.openmarket.com/intindex/. To subscribe to future issues of the Internet Index, send a message saying "subscribe" in the body to internet-index-request () openmarket com. ISN is sponsored by Security-Focus.COM
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