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Vitaly Rubstein and Petr Antropov - the team that created the Baltics' successful answer to Friendster, called One. It has one third (1 million people) of the entire population of Lithuania as members; those members average two hours a day (n the winter). And in Lavtia, 20 percent of hte useage is by mobile phone. Indeed, One gets most of its revenues through revenue-sharing from cell-phone operators for its widely-used Net-to-SMS services.

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IPDUDEHI says:

The question is: What were those people doing with that time before computers and mobile phones? If they were spending the time playing with their kids or interacting face to face with their spouses then this whole technological revolution must be considered a monumental cultural, moral, and psychological disaster.
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

compositionz says:

And if that 2 hours a day saved them 10 hours of labor that took them away from their family and opened them up to understand cultures beyond their own...can the technological revolution stay?
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

aldask says:

The statement that ONE has 1m people (or one third of the population) as members in Lithuania seems a bit strange, given the fact that the total number of internet users in Lithuania was 835k in spring of 2006. As monthly reach of ONE has been hovering around 48 percent of the total Lithuanian internet audience for the last couple of years, it would seem that the actual ONE audience currently cannot be larger than 400k 'real' users in Lithuania.

(all figures as reported by TNS Gallup in July 2006)

...But, regardless of the actual user numbers, ONE has performed impressively.
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

Tom Lord (Berkeley) says:

IPDUDEHI: yeah. One does detect the stink of an emerging subsumption architecture that calls to mind G. Dyson on Google's AI and Vinge on singularities. All of which seem, to me, like a projection in scifi terms like good ideas from, e.g., Foucault on discourse and power.

Why do you think I intrude on Ms. D's blogs?

-t
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

Tom Lord (Berkeley) says:

Oh, wait, I forgot.. It's because I need money, of course ;-)

-t
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

Automatt says:

This reminds me of when people would tell me how many users Yahoo had, and I would say "and I'm five of them!"
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

vitalyrubstein says:

to: aldask

I believe that we have to analyze TNS Gallup methodology for the research. Such reports our biggest obstacle in selling advertising to media agencies and big clients since they do not correspond with the reality of our own numbers. For example, yesterday over 240 000 unique users (in our case unique user = user with the unique mobile phone number) logged into our system. Based on the assumption that ONE.LT cannot have more than 400k users, more than half of our users logged in yesterday. I believe that none of the social networks can boast of such frequency of use.

Anyway, here is the link to our stats in LT:

reklama.one.lv/ltstatsen/

we define active users as a user with the unique mobile phone number who logged in at least once in the last 3 months.
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

vitalyrubstein says:

I post this just to settle the issue of our users.

We have neither misled anyone nor double counted anything.
Our statistics is simply correct!

For instance, as of today:

Over 1.1 m users with unique mobile phone numbers logged in during the last 3 months in LT.

Over 550k users with unique mobile phone numbers logged in during the last month in LT.

Over 240k users with unique mobile phone numbers logged in yesterday in LT (the average per day is around 220k including weekends).

Each user during the registration process receives his or her password via SMS to the mobile phone. The only possible double counting could be if some users have two or more SIM cards and use them to get more accounts with us for some strange reason. I believe that such cases are fewer than 5%. Also, each user by default receives an email account with us, but there is no double counting.
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

aldask says:

Vitaly,

Thanks for the explanation. My guess would then be that TNS does not take into account mobile internet users (those connecting to the internet solely via their handsets and not via desktops/laptops) in their polls.

I would expect the number of users with multiple handsets to be above 5%, but then it is unlikely that they would be using every of their handsets to connect to ONE = hence inflation of usage figures due to multiple handset use should not be significant.

It is indeed fascinating to observe all this rapid growth unlocked by GPRS mobile web/wap access.
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

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