The virtual world is proven to provide opportunities for anyone without a care place to develop a business without having to be too busy thinking about how to get the capital and the workforce in large numbers. The Internet Provides space for corporations and small businesses to scoop up the number of subscribers to all corners of the world. This is proven by the large number of companies and Organizations that provide services to large numbers of users while having only a handful of staff.
Small-sized companies and organization are some of the which have a number of users WHO are estimated at more than 10 million worldwide.
Tumblr
Number of staff: 18
Number of users: 12 million (in the form of a blog at Tumblr.com)
Tumblr is one of the most successful projects in 2010. Tumblr has Become one of the blogging services that grow up to Rapidly and currently home to as many as 12 million blogs.
Automattic
Number of staff: 72
Number of users: more than 32 million (in the form of a WordPress blog)
Automattic Became famous after successfully developing as a company that Brings the concept of open source. Automattic’s WordPress blogging software (WordPress.org) and a free WordPress.com blogging service. The ratio of the number of WordPress blogs that use open source software is owned by Automattic blog at WordPress.com and the number is estimated to be comparable, 50-50. Rather there are 16.7 million blogs have own hosting using the WordPress.org software installation and 16 million free blog at WordPress.com.
Mozilla
Number of staff: 250
Number of users: all users of the Internet browser Firefox. There are 400 times recorded weekly Firefox version 3.6 to date and still growing.
Mozilla is an organization or company under Firefox the which is one of the many open source projects based on a loyal community. As many as 40% of the work done by the volunteers of Firefox.
Firefox is not the only project in Mozilla. There is Also a Thuderbird email client. Firefox, however, remains a project that most have a user base across the world. Firefox was estimated as many as 30% of the market control of the web browser.
Craigslist
Number of staff: 30
Number of users: more than 50 million (for the US only)
Craigslist was founded in 1996 as a site that offers online classified ads free of charge. With age and experience as it was, so awesome that its employees was only 30 people. Worth noting that the number of people outside of US territory has not yet been added so it is very possible the number above our estimates.
Wikimedia
Number of staff: 57
Number of users: according to the note, Wikipedia is visited Click or call now 408 million users month.
The Wikimedia Foundation is an organization that runs Wikipedia and a few other Wiki-similar projects. The content of Wikipedia as it is known, together with the donations of Hundreds of Thousands of people over the years. There are over 100,000 volunteers WHO write and edit Wikipedia (and its sister project that other smaller scale).
Skype
Number of staff: 500
Number of users: more than 560 million users (2010)
Skype was founded in 2003 to facilitate the users to be-able to the make voice calls (plus our video and chat) through the connection of the virtual world. Although both have the category and the target consumers are not WHO-similar, it could be said that the number of Skype users is equivalent to the number of Facebook users.
opera
Number of staff: 757
Number of users: 150 million users use all the Internet browser Opera version (either version of the desktop, mobile, and other devices).
The Opera is only one of the five applications the most popular Internet browsers today. Despite only holding the last sequence in the list of the top 5 Internet browser, Opera’s market share can not be underestimated Because The Opera has its own advantages in the mobile version. Opera Mini browser application up to now be the top on many mobile phones. The Opera is based in Norway.
Canonical
Number of staff: approximately 350
Number of users: Dates to reach 12 million users of Ubuntu Linux
Canonical is a company under the Ubuntu distribution of Linux, the most popular desktop and the second most popular in the server. Canonical Also Became the most popular in the use of cloud computing.
Number of staff: 300
Number of users: 175 million (2010)
Reviews their Twitter managed to improve performance dramatically in recent years. The explosive growth of the number of users makes a number of staff Also should be added. Anyway still the comparison is still astounding.
