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The 2010 Social Networking Map This post was written by Jenny Urbano, our Social Media Manager. Here at Demandforce, we love seeing and celebrating your ideas! And more than that, we love to hear from YOU. We want to bridge the gap between us and you, so that’s why we’re offering a once in a lifetime opportunity to win a trip to San Francisco, sightsee in this amazing city, visit Demandforce headquarters and share your ideas with us! 6 winners, and a guest of their choice will be flown out to San Francisco, California on March 12-14th, 2014, where they will stay in Union Square, spend a day at Demandforce, have dinner with the team, and explore the lovely City by the Bay! For contest rules, and how to enter, please visit our post in the Generation Demandforce Community here.

10 Top New Web Services of 2009 (From My Perspective) Last year, I highlighted ten top Web services that debuted in the year, from Socialmedian to BackType and Feedly. Not an all-encompassing list, blogging colleague Robert Scoble asked if "I was right", adding on a few of his own. With 2009 coming to a close, I thought it made sense to highlight some of my own personal favorites which are gaining traction. Breakdown of the Blogosphere Everything you need to know about who makes up the blogosphere, what and why they are blogging, and how much time is being spent doing so. Breakdown of the Blogosphere Who’s Blogging Right Now?

Facebook Grabs Soc Net Share Not only has Facebook surpassed MySpace as the leading social network in the US, it has moved far ahead in terms of market share of US social networking site visits. According to September 2009 data from Experian Hitwise, almost 59% of all social network category visits were at Facebook, compared with just over 30% for second-place MySpace. That amounted almost to a tripling in share for Facebook year over year, while MySpace dropped 55%. Twitter, in fourth place with 1.84% of social networking site visits in September 2009, posted a huge increase over September 2008. But reports of a Twitter slowdown are bolstered by the fact that the site actually lost share since August 2009, down 0.11 percentage points. Time spent on Twitter was down year over year, by 56%.

5 Technologies Shaping the Future of Social Media Measurement One of the things that continues to amaze me about social media measurement is how quickly our abilities are evolving with the ongoing changes in technology and the Internet. Computers are getting faster, math is getting slicker and the number of people working on social media measurement is multiplying like a viral tweet. These new technologies are a digital gold mine for marketers – not only will our lives get easier, but our planning will become more robust and our marketing efforts more successful. After all, that’s what this is all about – using technology to do a better job and in less time. So what’s shaping the digital future?

The State of the GeoSocial Universe [INFOGRAPHIC] Jesse Thomas is the CEO and Founder of JESS3, a Creative Interactive Agency. JESS3 designs products and experiences for brands like Google, Nike, Facebook, MySpace, C-SPAN, Microsoft and NASA. With constant news reports and studies regarding the adoption rates of social networking platforms like Foursquare, Gowalla, Facebook, Loopt and SCVNGR, a clear idea of the big picture can get a little muddled.

Fashion Week Takes Over Twitter [INFOGRAPHS] This fall, brands, marketers and media turned to social media to generate real-time coverage and buzz among followers of New York Fashion Week — and nowhere was the impact of those efforts more apparent than on Twitter. According to social media measurement platform Trendrr, which produced the infographs below, more than 165,000 tweets pertaining to Fashion Week were posted between Thursday, September 9 and Thursday, September 16. Friday, September 10 was the biggest day at 34,000 tweets; hashtag #nyfw also became a trending topic on Twitter that day. Of the tweets delivered during that period, 70% came from female users, 50% were positive and 17% were negative in sentiment. The conversation generated a number of benefits for brands who were active during the week, most of which received a healthy increase in followers. Diane von Furstenberg led the way with an increase of 3,000 followers, whose show garnered positive reviews both in print and online.

StatCounter: IE6 Usage Falls Below 5% In The US, But IE8 Still On The Rise Microsoft’s oft-lamented browser, Internet Explorer 6, may finally be put to rest. This will make many a Web developer happy – but also Microsoft itself. Web analytics company StatCounter claims its latest global data set shows IE6 usage in the US and Europe has fallen to 4.7 percent of the market from 11.5 percent a year ago. That said, IE8 usage in the US increased to 30.5 percent in May (up from 8.5 percent a year ago) while IE7 is currently at 16.6%, so it’s not all bad news for Redmond. Firefox 3.6 comes in second in terms of browser usage in the US, with almost 19.85%, while Google Chrome 4.0 only has some 6.5% of market share according to StatCounter.

Planning a social media strategy? Then try this. « 'If only we'd thought of that' Posted by Richard Pentin on September 25, 2010 This fabulous chart by Advanced Human Technologies Group really struck a chord with me. Not only does it beautifully explain the process one needs to go through to develop a social media strategy but it also made me realise just how much I need to brush up on my powerpoint skills!

Whatever Happened to the Top 15 Web Properties of April, 1999? As I quietly lamented (or at least noted) the impending death of GeoCities today, I wanted to double-check my memory that it was once one of the very largest sites on the Web. Yup–ten years ago, in April 1999, Web measurement company Media Metrix rated it as the sixth largest online property. Which got me to wondering: How many of 1999′s Web giants remain gigantic today–assuming they still exist at all? The Noun Project Uncovers the Designers Behind Our Universal Symbols Pop quiz: who designed the instantly-recognizable, universal symbol for "recycle"? Yeah, we didn't know either -- until we consulted The Noun Project, a brilliant site that's part design utility, part history lesson. Not only can you download any of these icons and symbols for free, the site also pops up a neat little factoid for each one. ("Recycle" was designed by Gary Anderson in 1970, by the way.) Edward Boatman launched The Noun Project via Kickstarter with a simple goal: to build a site for "sharing, celebrating and enhancing the world's visual language."