Internet commerce keeps-a-growing

I’ve written quite a bit over the past few weeks about the “Internet reality distortion field” and the dangers of extrapolating online findings to the world at large, a-la Howard Dean.

However, away from the hype, the Internet is continuing to grow nicely.  Research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project has found that two thirds of online Americans have purchased products and services over the Internet, while Forrester estimates that $120 Billion worth of goods will be sold online this year.

Unfortunately it’s four years too late for the Internet boomers… c’est la vie.

The story in the New York Times has a lot of very interesting statistics if you’re interested in the changing online demographics.

Footnote:

Thanks to MarketingVox/MarketingWonk/Up2Speed for the link.

Pew Research also did some recent research on Blogs.