Time Spent on Social Networks up 82% Around the World. InShare11 Nielsen recently released a new report that officially documents what many of us already know, just never substantiated through data. According to a study published at the end of January 2010, Nielsen observed the online social activity of consumers around the world and discovered an 82% increase in time spent on social networking sites in December 2009. On average, users spent more than five and a half hours on popular networks such as Facebook and Twitter in December 2009.
In December 2008, users clocked just over three hours on social networking sites. The audience for Social Networks also increased year-over-year for the last three years, reaching an estimated audience of over 300 million. Specifically, online visitors concentrated their time on social networks and blogs, placing them ahead of other forms of engagement and interaction including online games and instant messaging. Facebook and Twitter were alone in the competition for attracting visitors. Apple's HTC lawsuit pays off: Rival roadmaps disrupted | Between. Apple's high-profile patent lawsuit against HTC is already delivering returns since it is "meaningfully disrupting the development roadmaps for would-be iPhone killers," according to an Oppenheimer analyst. Oppenheimer's Yair Reiner pens an interesting tale of the behind-the-scenes look at Apple's effort to defend its intellectual property and then launching the HTC suit.
Reiner's tale is based on "industry checks" and has garnered a good amount of buzz. Starting in January, Reiner contends that Apple "launched a series of C-Level discussions with tier-1 handset makers to underscore its growing displeasure at seeing its iPhone-related IP infringed. " The HTC lawsuit was a "lawyered-up exclamation point on a series of blunt conversations that have been occurring behind closed doors. " More: Apple's HTC lawsuit: Is it biting off more than it can sue? Reiner picks up with the January launch of the Motorola Droid and HTC Eris. The message has been received loud and clear.
And froze a market. Run Your Own Twitter Clone: Status.net Launches Public Beta. StatusNet, the open-source microblogging service that serves as the foundation for identi.ca, just announced the launch of the public beta of its StatusNet Cloud Service. Thanks to this, you can now easily host your own Twitter-like community for your blog, club or company.
The StatusNet Cloud Service also supports OStatus, a new standard that allows users on different social networks to follow each other. StatusNet accounts are currently available for free. The company will begin to offer additional paid services in April. Getting Started To get started, just head over to status.net, sign up for a free account. Connect to Twitter Just running your own microblogging network isn't too exciting unless you are running an internal site for your business, but you can easily connect your Twitter account to your StatusNet site, so that every update from your personal site gets syndicated to your Twitter stream as well. StatusNet in the Enterprise. Avatised celebrities: stars made to look like the Na'vi from Ava.
Do luxury brands need social media? | SmartBlog On Social Media. Untitled. CitizenshipPanel on USTREAM: Will the Internet determine the out. Vibes » Qype is hiring. I am excited to share that Europe’s largest local reviews site, Qype, has agreed to be acquired by Yelp and become part of our fast growing company. Welcome! Our mission is to become the defacto choice for local search globally, connecting people with great local businesses all over the world. We’ve built a great foundation, launching Yelp communities in 19 countries so far.
Bringing Qype into the fold will enable us to accelerate our international growth and increase our benefit to consumers and businesses. Qype’s contributors have written more than two million reviews of local businesses, resulting in more than 15 million monthly unique visitors to the service. Combine that with more than 30 million Yelp reviews and 78 million unique monthly visitors, and you can see why teaming up will make us even better at helping you find that perfect restaurant/museum/dentist/hair salon/shoe store in Los Angeles/Memphis/London/Hamburg/Singapore. So, what’s next? US anti-gay rights senator Roy Ashburn comes out. A conservative US state senator who has voted against gay rights measures during his 14 years in office has announced he is gay. Republican Roy Ashburn came out during a radio interview in California, where he sits on the state legislature.
He has been on leave since his arrest last week on suspicion of driving under the influence. Mr Ashburn said his votes reflected the way his constituents wanted him to vote, not his own "internal conflict". "I am gay... those are the words that have been so difficult for me for so long," the 55-year-old divorced father-of-four told KERN radio. Mr Ashburn said he felt the need to address rumours that he had visited a gay nightclub before his arrest on suspicion of drinking and driving in Sacramento on 3 March. Last year, Mr Ashburn opposed a bill to establish a day of recognition to honour murdered gay rights activist Harvey Milk. He has also voted in the statehouse against efforts to expand anti-discrimination laws and recognise out-of-state gay marriages. How Are Companies Leveraging Social Media? / Flowtown (@flowtown.
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For contest rules, and how to enter, please visit our post in the Generation Demandforce Community here. Good luck! The contest ends on February 21st, 2014! I Tickled Aide, but That Was All, Massa Says - City Room Blog - Updated, 6:21 p.m. | Representative Eric J. Massa, who resigned from Congress amid allegations of sexual misconduct, vehemently denied any wrongdoing during a television appearance on Tuesday even as he described having tickle fights with staffers in a house they shared. But he insisted that was as far as it went. “No, no, no!’’ He said when asked during an interview with Fox’s Glenn Beck. “I did nothing sexual.’’ Mr. Massa made the comments amid new reports that the House Ethics Committee is investigating allegations that he groped several male aides in his office. The allegations were first reported on Washingtonpost.com on Tuesday. That is at odds with an account provided by Mr. In the interview with Mr.
“Now they are saying I groped a male staffer,’’ he told Mr. Mr. “My chief of staff had a conniption and said: `You can’t live there; It’s not Congressional,’’’ he said. “I should not have allowed myself to become so familiar with my staff,’’ he said. Last week, Mr. Mr. Gov. Mr. Social Marketing Compensation Research | Online Community Report. How the New York Times and CNN try to keep up with the tech comp. "The New York Times is now as much a technology company as a journalism company," its executive editor Bill Keller said recently. A glance at the top 10 breaking news sites online shows how seriously that statement must be taken, because in 2009 that list was often led by a tech company rather than a traditional news organisation.
AOL News, Yahoo News or MSNBC News attract more US readers than CNN – or the New York Times. Being a big traditional news brand doesn't necessarily bring you success on the web. "What got you to where you are, is not necessarily where you have to go now," says Kenneth KC Estenson, senior vice-president and general manager of CNN.com, when we meet at the Courthouse Hotel to talk about CNN Worldwide Digital.
The now renovated Courthouse displays the situation of news organisations perfectly: lots of nicely renovated rooms, but no windows to get what happens outside. Estenson's role is exaxtly to break down that wall. R&D at the New York Times Conclusion. Cash Is So Twentieth Century: Bump iPhones to Exchange Money Ins. While PayPal has been less and less relevant, thanks to competitors like Google Checkout and Amazon, they may just stage a comeback with an idea that's cute and useful at the same time: a bump-triggered iPhone app. Bump Technologies, the company that makes the Bump iPhone app, provided the underlying tech for PayPal's newly announced app.
But instead of exchanging contact information, now you can exchange money. The app also includes a tax, tip, and check calculating feature, so you can figure out who owes what at a table, then simply bump phones to get all the money to one person, who can then pay a single bill for the entire table, saving the waitstaff at the restaurant the headache of running twelve different credit cards through. The app could, at some point, also be used for very small businesses in place of expensive credit card readers--especially independent sellers like those at a farmers market, craft fair, or adorable lemonade stand.
[Via The New York Times] Did The iPhone Kill The Girl Phone? - Forbes.com. My Favourite Tweets. Brands Must Become Media to Earn Relevance. InShare8 What follows is the complete version of my recent post on Mashable, “Why Brands are Becoming Media.“ One of the greatest challenges I encounter today is not the willingness of a brand to engage, but its ability to create. When blueprinting social architecture and the engineering that connects people to other people strategically, enthusiasm and support typically derail when examining the resources and the commitment required to rhythmically produce, distribute, and support content.
Indeed, we are programming the social web around our brand hub and as such, we’re required to capture attention and also hold it through the introduction of engaging dialogue, interaction, and the introduction of relevant information packaged and published as social objects. Social Objects are the catalysts for conversations and occurrences — online and in real life — and they affect behavior within their respective societies. We Become Media Social Media is an earned privilege. Influence. Twitter Charging More Companies For Access To Firehose. While Twitter promotes their open developer platform, Social Times has confirmed a number of new deals which involve 6 figure monthly fees for access to the Twitter stream. Both Google and Bing recently announced deals which involve the exchange of access to the public stream for significant sums of money, yet it wasn’t clear that this practice continued on down the line (of smaller developers).
While the stream may appear free, if you consume too much information from Twitter, you will be billed. Rumors Emerge About Facebook’s Competing Firehose If rumors that Facebook is going to open up their firehose to developers this April are true, the two companies could soon be competing for market research dollars. However Facebook has their own problems to deal with. Instead, Facebook has been driving developers toward Facebook ads to drive new users. Stream Fees Make Business Sense. Social Media Influence: Social Media News & Intellegence » As st. ICQ Is Back And It Uses Facebook and Twitter. Do you remember ICQ (“I Seek You”)? It was one of the first desktop download chat applications and was sold to AOL for $400 million in 1998.
Strangely, it fell off the map after the acquisition, but has since resurfaced as a type of community-based social network that leverages Facebook and Twitter. We take a look below. ICQ has expanded its range to include a community based web page that allows you to log in, view your friends information, chat and customize your profile. For all intents and purpose, it is a new social network.
That said, the latest version of the desktop ICQ client introduced the ability to integrate your Facebook and Twitter. One of the problems was that ICQ would not connect with Facebook properly unless I gave it full access to Facebook wall posts as well, which would effectively allow ICQ to post any updates onto my Facebook wall. Hiring Freeze Thawing as Ad Agency Business Hunts for Talent - A.
Making Things Happen In Your Community - FeverBee. If you’re struggling to get your community to do something, it’s probably because you’re telling them to do it. This doesn’t work too well. It relies too heavily on your influence over the collective influence of the community. If you want members to take an action, begin small. Reach out to a group of people and persuade them to start doing it. This doesn’t have to be an influencer group, just members that believe in it.
For example, if you want members to share their best pictures of …. If it doesn’t take off, you know it’s not something the community wants to do and you stop trying to get your community to do things they don’t want to do This takes time and planning. Google is still in the race for smartphone users | Blog | Econsu. The iPhone may have revolutionized the smartphone market, but as other competitors launch their own web friendly phones, Apple's Jesus phone is starting to have to fight for market dominance.
And while other phones may not have seeped into consumer consciousness in the same way yet, that doesn't mean they wont. According to Crowd Sicence's brand loyalty survey, 1/3 of Blackberry users are willing to switch to Google's Android operating system when they purchase a smarphone. But there's still the matter of whether Google's online stategy can compete with AT&T and other carriers' sales strengths. Google's gotten some flack for its decision to sell the Nexus One solely through its website.
Cutting out the middleman of phone carriers may seem like a noble cause to some, but sales didn't prove it to be an efficient sales mechanism in 2009. Goldman Sachs recently downgraded its revenue prospects for the year and ZDNET has declared Google's online only retail strategy a failure. Image: Google.