[OPLIN 4cast] OPLIN 4cast #440: Mary Meeker's 20th Internet report

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OPLIN 4cast #440: Mary Meeker's 20th Internet report
June 3rd, 2015

[image: KPCB logo]Last Wednesday - while you were no doubt reading the
*4cast* - Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) presented
<http://www.kpcb.com/blog/2015-internet-trends> her 20th annual report on
Internet trends at the Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, outside of
Los Angeles. Ms. Meeker started doing these reports in 1995 - the same year
OPLIN was officially created - and they have become a highly respected and
anticipated discussion of the state of the Internet each year. Now that the
Internet has become such an integral part of our lives, these discussions
often have as much to say about our society as they do about our
technology, and this year was no exception.

   - The impact of the on-demand economy, as told through Mary Meeker slides
   <http://recode.net/2015/05/27/the-impact-of-the-on-demand-economy-as-told-through-mary-meeker-slides/>
   (Re/Code | Ina Fried) "You can get groceries from Instacart, lunch from
   Munchery and other goods from Instacart, but society has yet to catch up to
   how quickly labor and the workplace is being transformed. The good news is
   that the next generation of workers isn't expecting the kind of stability
   that earlier generations have taken as the norm. They see the neighborhood
   coffee shop as their office, have no expectation of standard work hours and
   are far more willing to take on freelance tasks...."
   - Mary Meeker's Internet report: User growth slowing, but disruption
   full speed ahead
   <http://www.zdnet.com/article/mary-meeker-on-the-internet-today-and-tomorrow/>
   (ZDNet | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols) "On the plus side, the Internet social
   networking has made this kind of work much easier to find. It may not be
   ideal work, but at least, thanks to the Internet, it's doable. The down
   side is that the average income from these services are far below the media
   US household income of $51,900. For example, an eBay seller will see an
   average gross of $3,000; a Thumbtack contractor will earn $8,000 a year;
   and even in New York City, a typical Airbnb host will earn only $7,700 a
   year."
   - Messaging becoming the heart of mobile, Mary Meeker says
   <http://www.cnet.com/news/mary-meeker-sees-messaging-taking-over-mobile/>
   (CNET | Ben Fox Rubin) "Bolstering her case, Meeker pointed out that
   Whatsapp now has 800 million active mobile users, Facebook Messenger has
   600 million and WeChat has 549 million. Snapchat, she reported, has 100
   million daily active users. On top of those giant user bases, messaging
   apps also make up six of the top 10 most used apps globally. These
   statistics build on Meeker's 2014 report
   <http://kpcbweb2.s3.amazonaws.com/files/85/Internet_Trends_2014_vFINAL_-_05_28_14-_PDF.pdf?1401286773>,
   in which she noted how communicating online was changing, with people using
   messaging and chat apps more frequently to communicate with small groups of
   close contacts than they were using sites like Facebook to broadcast
   messages to larger audiences."
   - Mary Meeker's vertical video future
   <http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenrosenbaum/2015/05/31/mary-meekers-vertical-video-future/>
   (Forbes | Steven Rosenbaum) "But as Meeker pointed out - video isn't
   getting bigger. It's getting smaller, and vertical, and mobile. Said
   Meeker: 'Small Screen Vertical Viewing Became Big Deal...' in 2014.
   Vertical viewing now accounts for 29% of total time spend on screens.
   Vertical viewing is the only category that's growing other than tiny growth
   in 'other' connected devices like OTT [Over the Top]."

 *Articles from Ohio Web Library <http://ohioweblibrary.org>:*

   - Meeker, Mary
   <http://web.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/ehost/detail/detail?sid=2b0c749d-0000-41c8-b1ee-52cf70353d2e%40sessionmgr4004&vid=8&hid=4101&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=brb&AN=203102325>
   (*Current Biography*, 1999)
   - The indomitable Mary Meeker.
   <http://web.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/ehost/detail/detail?sid=8e62990a-6124-4325-adce-2d2e11f92543%40sessionmgr4004&crlhashurl=login.aspx%253fdirect%253dtrue%2526db%253dsch%2526AN%253d83178536%2526site%253dehost-live&hid=4101&vid=0&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=sch&AN=83178536>
   (*Wired*, Oct. 2012, p.100-1 | Steven Levy)
   - Not com.
   <http://web.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/ehost/detail/detail?sid=7c61861b-08b1-4709-bdcb-6bffb1980275%40sessionmgr4004&crlhashurl=login.aspx%253fdirect%253dtrue%2526db%253dsch%2526AN%253d2863343%2526site%253dehost-live&hid=4101&vid=0&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=sch&AN=2863343>
   (*Technology Review*, March/April 2000, p.34 | G. Pascal Zachary)

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