I just heard that there is a new iPhone  hitting stores today.  Apparently, there is some sort of craze behind it as well, because the Boylston Apple store has fan boys and girls up queued up through Fairfield Street.    As such, I figured it was a perfect time to head into Pinyadda’s index and check out some iPhone data.

The below graph shows the relative number iPhone items over each day in June.

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The most iPhone items on a single day occured on June 7th, the day the iPhone 4 was announced.  Interestingly, the 5th and the 6th of June showed the lowest number of iPhone items, respectively.  I guess it really is darkest before dawn.

So which publications had the most iPhone items over June?  See the below graph

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Scanning the publications on this list, only a handful are strictly tech-related.  Many of the publications are larger media outlets (like Yahoo or the New York Times), indicating the strength of the iPhone’s reach to all demographics.

Some other notes of interest:

• 8.2% of TechCrunch’s articles this June have been about the iPhone, compared to 7.3% for VentureBeat and 9.6% for CNET.com
• Over 400 sites have had an iPhone item this June

Now are these publications fanboys or is Apple such a cash cow that even mentioning the iPhone on your publication does wonders for your traffic?  Perhaps Apple is too important financially to these publications that not mentioning the iPhone is just bad business.  Thoughts?

On Tuesday, we were lucky enough to speak with the Downtown Boston Rotary club at 225 Franklin Street.  During Chase’s speech, he referenced the amount of articles published each day by the New York Times, which got me thinking:  How many items do these massive sites publish in a day?

Going through Tuesday, June 16th’s data, I was able to construct the following graph comparing the highest volume publications on Pinyadda.

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As suspected, Yahoo, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times are all in the top 5.  I was surprised to see some sites (like Contra Costa Times or the Sacramento Bee) publish as much content as they do.  I mean, with the news industry in a downward spiral and Miami’s unemployment rate hovering around 11%, you’d assume that the Miami Herald would be lacking for content.  After closer inspection, however, these sites are not creating their own content at high volume but publishing many items from news syndication sources like the Associated Press or Reuters.

Does anyone else notice any trends or anything interesting from this data?  Recall that all of this data is from a Tuesday- it might be interesting to re-calculate the top 25 sites on Pinyadda by volume on a Friday or Saturday.

Only five days into the 2010 World Cup and there has been plenty to talk about.  I decided to take a stroll through the World Cup feed to see what people are talking about.

Ignoring country names, I created the following graph based on popular strings in article titles.



If you don’t know what a ‘vuvuzela‘ is just yet, you haven’t watched any World Cup games.  Coverage of these annoying horns  accounts for  8.7% of all of the World Cup items since June 11th.  58% of the sites to have at least one World Cup article have mentioned vuvuzela in the title as well.  Hopefully, the vuvuzela will be banned from the stadiums before the World Cup is finished.

I was surprised to see ‘Travolta’ as a World Cup topic, but apparently he is affiliated with the Australian team’s sponsor, so he and wife Kelly Preston flew to South Africa to speak with the team as well as make a donation to a charity of Nelson Mandela’s.

Robert Green, the English goal-keeper who botched a gimme-save in Saturday’s game with the US, accounted for 2.2% of the World Cup items while the American goal-scorer on that play (Clint Dempsey) accounted for 1.6% of World Cup items.  Lionel Messi, the Argentinian who is arguably the world’s best player, was only mentioned in 0.5% of articles (enjoy the Messi highlight reel below).

On a somber note, Nelson Mandela’s 13 year old daughter was killed in an car collision the day before the World Cup began, which accounted for roughly 2% of the World Cup coverage.  Zenani Mendela was in her school’s choir, played both the saxophone and piano, and was described as a loving child.

Comparing the first week of May to the first week of June of this year, the number of Foursquare mentions in Pinyadda’s index has increased 2.46x. From my previous knowledge (see here regarding Facebook), I assumed that  an increase in Foursquare mentions would be directly proportional to the number of different sites to mention Foursquare.  This, however, was not the case.

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