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Mary Meeker's 2014 Internet Trends

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Re: Mary Meeker's 2014 Internet Trends

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Post by Dorian-Marie »

anonymous_ wrote: post #3
conorh wrote: post #2

I figured this might appear on hacker news soon enough. If anyone has any questions about the tech behind this microsite (although it is pretty straightforward) let me know. We developed the site and the hosting to account for an enormous amount of traffic in a very short period of time. So far everything is working fine.

when I tried to view using firefox, the cpu bar kept high eating all the memory and unresponsive. I saw in firebug net tab that every slide was being fetch from slideshare in a loop. Does not happen in chrome.

I can confirm that Slideshare is eating all CPU, maybe use Speaker Deck: https://speakerdeck.com/

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Post by grandalf »

conorh wrote: post #2

I figured this might appear on hacker news soon enough. If anyone has any questions about the tech behind this microsite (although it is pretty straightforward) let me know. We developed the site and the hosting to account for an enormous amount of traffic in a very short period of time. So far everything is working fine.

Very poor usability on chrome osx. Clicking next takes 2-3 seconds before the next slide shows...

Re: Mary Meeker's 2014 Internet Trends

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Post by [deleted] »

grandalf wrote: post #12
conorh wrote: post #2

I figured this might appear on hacker news soon enough. If anyone has any questions about the tech behind this microsite (although it is pretty straightforward) let me know. We developed the site and the hosting to account for an enormous amount of traffic in a very short period of time. So far everything is working fine.

Very poor usability on chrome osx. Clicking next takes 2-3 seconds before the next slide shows...

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Re: Mary Meeker's 2014 Internet Trends

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Post by masterleep »

conorh wrote: post #7
iandanforth wrote: post #5

Such poor design for mobile. Almost unusable on a nexus 4. Ironic given the emphasis mobile gets in the presentation.

I'm interested to hear the feedback. We did the design for the site and tested it extensively on mobile. What issue are you seeing? My email is in my profile if you want to drop me a line. edit: The slideshare embed is having some issues on mobile and desktop unfortunately. Very slow. They are working on it.

It was unviewable due to the slowness. Just linking to the PDF on a static webserver somewhere would have been far superior.

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Post by sutterbomb »

Tablet growth still booming, while iPad growth has slowed considerably and is causing analysts to rethink importance of iPad/tablets.

Slide 96 helps tell the story - cheap generic tablets market in underdeveloped countries as tv supplement/replacements.

Re: Mary Meeker's 2014 Internet Trends

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Post by tmsh »

'Ain't bout what you walk away from, it's bout what you walk away with.' -Lil Wayne

I'd summarize the end of this report (which for me is the best part with):

a) it doesn't matter if you're first-generation or second-generation as a founder b) if your app or site or service can participate in China, you have 10x booster thrusters.

Re: Mary Meeker's 2014 Internet Trends

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Post by jmsdnns »

sutterbomb wrote: post #15

Tablet growth still booming, while iPad growth has slowed considerably and is causing analysts to rethink importance of iPad/tablets. Slide 96 helps tell the story - cheap generic tablets market in underdeveloped countries as tv supplement/replacements.

Also interesting: http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/4/25/ipad-growth

Re: Mary Meeker's 2014 Internet Trends

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Post by mathattack »

tmsh wrote: post #16

'Ain't bout what you walk away from, it's bout what you walk away with.' -Lil Wayne I'd summarize the end of this report (which for me is the best part with): a) it doesn't matter if you're first-generation or second-generation as a founder b) if your app or site or service can participate in China, you have 10x booster thrusters.

The China piece is a big insight. Huge population! I think the overseas strength is what made WeChat so valuable.

Re: Mary Meeker's 2014 Internet Trends

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Post by callmeed »

From Slide 9: mobile usage as a % of web usage is now 25%. It was 14% last year.

This seems contrary to what we hear about native apps dominating smartphone usage. Obviously that web usage isn't "HTML5 Apps" per se and I'm sure apps dominate services like Facebook, Yelp, etc ... but that number and growth seems very significant.

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