PATRONS DE PRESSE, TOUS MAUVAIS ! Facebook may have surpassed Google in the US, but what about oth. Posted in Tech blog on March 19th, 2010 by Pingdom There was a significant amount of media attention earlier this week around a report from traffic monitoring company Hitwise that claimed Facebook now has more traffic than Google in the US.
First of all it’s worth noting that Hitwise only compared Facebook with Google Search… So Facebook didn’t really surpass Google, if you read the fine print. All of Google’s sites counted together (including sites like YouTube, Blogger, etc), would still crush Facebook in terms of sheer traffic. Still, it’s an interesting trend to examine. Facebook has managed to amass users like no other social network before it.
Data journalism. Link journalism. Théories sur les médias. The lethal self-complacency of advertising. Is advertising the next casualty of the on-going digital tsunami’s?
For now, advertising looks like the patient who developed an asymptomatic form of cancer without realizing how sick he is. Such behavior usually results from excessive confidence in one’s body past performance, mixed with a state of permanent denial and a deep sense of superiority, all aided by a complacent environment.