Americans dropping email, portals and auctions in favor of social media and online gaming

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/what-americans-do-online-social-media-and-games-dominate-activity/

Nielsen reported a few days ago on Internet usage in the U.S.  Although intuitive to many of us, it offers numeric confirmation of the fundamental shift in user habits online.

Social networks/blogs were where we spent the most time (906 million hours in aggregate for the month of June).  Second place went to online games, at a little less than that (407 million hours), and e-mail–the bastion of baby boomers but shunned widely by X, Y, and Z generations, clocked in at a paltry 329 million hours).

In percentage change up and down, email, portals, and instant messaging took the biggest hits, while social networking, games, and online video saw the biggest increases.

Interesting also to look at the corollary for mobile users and how it was similar/different.  In fact, given that email activity on mobile devices increased from ~37% to ~42%, one might conclude that email has moved off the desktop onto the handset for the most part, and desktops are being preserved for rich media/bandwidth intensive behavior.

Dedham, MA-  Tobii ATI is pleased to announce that John Stamatopoulos has joined the company as Vice President, Sales.

“We’re very excited to have John on board.  Tobii is poised for significant growth in 2010, and John will be instrumental in our success in the coming year,” said Tara Rudnicki, Tobii-ATI’s U.S. President.

“I’m extremely excited about joining the team, and feel a real missionary passion to help bring Tobii’s assistive technologies product line deeper into the markets we serve,” stated Mr. Stamatopoulos.

John’s background prior to joining Tobii included Global Director of Sales, Medical Device, Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, Capital Equipment, & medical Instrumentation for Fiberoptic Components, a contract manufacturer serving the medical devices and industrial manufacturing industries.  While there, John was focused on developing an international medical marketplace for custom Fiberoptic applications including hand instruments, sensors, and analytical instrumentation. Partner with OEM’s and contract manufacturers.   Before this role, John was responsible for sales leadership at IDEX Health & Science where he was recruited to direct sales for newly launched medical arm of $135M Health and Science division. Other sales roles John played previously included Account Sales Manager at Hill-Rom, a fortune 1000 global provider of healthcare solutions and sales executive at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals where he was #1 in district for total Rx market share and recipient of “Best in ‘03″ and “Best of the Best” for professionalism 2004, including  national contest winner for market share growth.  John started his career in the medical industry  at Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals, and has received industry-focused certificates at Loyola University of Chicago and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.  John received his BSBA from Northeastern University in Marketing and Management Information Systems.

Tobii-ATI (http://www.tobiiati.com ) is the founding pioneer in the field of assistive technology.  Tobii ATI has released a range of new alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) solutions that help individuals with speech impairments communicate. Tobii-ATI develops both communication hardware and software solutions for people with physical, cognitive, and speech disabilities. Tobii Assistive Technology, Inc. was formerly known as Assistive Technology, Inc.  Tobii Assistive Technology, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of its venture-backed Swedish parent, Tobii Technology AB.