Web based email usage is down 31% amongst 12-17 year olds and up 15% amongst 45-54 year olds.
Our thirst for health related information made it the fastest rising search category in 2011 up 134%, followed closely by online retail up 87%.
The average person online spends 7.05 hours per month in FaceBook, 2.51 hours in tumblr, 1.3 hours in Pinterest and 25 minutes in Twitter.
These insights, as well as why we’re using homeless people as portable Mi-Fi hot spots and the decline of the printed encyclopedia and what that means for future knowledge quests were all part of this weeks FutureTech segment with Jason Jordan and Morris Miselowski on Perth radio 6PR.
>Twitter is heading into its sixth year soon and this week 6PR Perth’s Jason Jordan and I take a look at some of the more unusual ways and things we can tweet, including…
• Penguin book club for twitter
• Using twitter to write fiction novels
• Tweeting the 2nd world war as if it’s actually happening now
• Best Buys in the U.S. uses Twitter to provide technology advice to anyone
• Hail a Chicago cab using Twitter
When you put Twitter back into perspective and think of it as a communication tool, just like a phone, fax or telex machine, then the possibilities and purposes abound.
Foursquare the new on line social networking phenomenon arrives in Melbourne and Hong Kong and 48 other countries, twitter on TV, “unfriend” unveiled as the word of the year, what’s been happening in Oz in the last week, word of the week and more were some of the topics Phil Kafcaloudes, Adelaine Ng and Morris Miselowski discussed in their weekly Future Tech segment on ABC Radio International’s Today Show, which of course included a live cross to Phil Whelan on Hong Kong Radio. Recorded live 20 Nov 2009. Listen live each Friday at 12.25
In this weeks segment we chat about Apple’s touch screen netbook to launch in October (the worst kept industry secret), China to get the iPhone without WI Fi and Microsoft takes on Google Office with its own free online offering and retail stores, before exploring a UK teenagers ad hoc handwritten comment of what he thinks of social media and who is actually using it – and here’s a clue it’s not him or his friends.
In their regular weekly segment Mark and Morris discuss online social networking sites including imeem.com, bebo and others as well as announce the competition winner for Morris’ one day What, Why, Wow and How of Business Social Media, . Recorded live 25 March 09.
In this weeks segment 6PR’s Tod Johnson and Morris Miselowski discuss what’s ahead for 2009, the ever increasing pace of online life driven by Twitter and Facebook, the economy and much more including an extraordinary testimonial (thanks Tod) Recorded live 21 March 09.
In their regular weekly segment Denis and Morris discuss social media, twitter, the fact that 1 minute in every 10 spent on line is now spent on a social networking site and social networking is larger on line than emails and take callers questions. Recorded live 11 March 09.
Morris Miselowski, Futurist Guru: your eye on the future
The highly-regarded principal and founder of Success through Focus since 1981, Morris Miselowski's speciality is future-vision.
He's a business mentor and consultant, a venture capitalist, an academic, and a dynamic presenter whose mission is to inspire, to encourage, and to motivate his audiences to embrace the unlimited opportunities of their future.
Each day he consults with business leaders around the globe, helping to shape their businesses so they can be first to take profitable advantage of tomorrow's business opportunities.
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Web based email usage is down 31% amongst 12-17 year olds and up 15% amongst 45-54 year olds. 
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