Unless you’ve been cave-dwelling for the past year, the following visualisation probably won’t come as too much of a surprise.
Updated to reflect data as of December 2009, Vincenzo Cosenza (an Italian blogger, photographer and stat-hound) has published the latest World view of the most popular social networks -as measured by publicly available traffic stats.
[update: according to this report over at TechCrunch, the deal is off the table for now. Looks like this has a few more twists and turns to play out yet - including the possibility of an alternative suitor or partner]
News broke today that Google was in the advanced stages of acquiring Yelp for the [...]
Yeah, we never thought we’d hear those words in the same sentence either, but it turns out Telstra are very much on the ball as far as trying to get the best out of social media channels for their business.
As a part of this effort they’ve been training up their staff in everything from the [...]
Love him or loath him, you can’t deny that Robert Scoble knows how to get a good ol’ fashioned Internet ding-dong going. Or perhaps he’s just extremely polished at linkbaiting. Either way, his latest post on the death of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) in 2010 has generated a fair amount of discussion: most of [...]
Well alright, it might well be, but the chances are if you’re not yet utilizing Facebook as part of your marketing and social media strategy you’re missing a trick.
comScore just released its November 2009 Media Metrix data and for the first time in its history, Facebook.com [...]
Morgan Stanley have released an enormous amount of research relating to the state of the Mobile Internet, and the opportunities it presents as we move into 2010 and beyond.
Comprised of two Powerpoint presentations (92 and 659 - yes, 659 – slides respectively), and a 424 page report, there’s plenty here (although there’s some overlap between [...]
If you’re lost in the terminology, never mind the application, of the real-time / social media / new media / future technology / you-name-it space, then you might be interested in our glossary of terms.
Newly harvested from various sources, with a slight touch of irreverence (see if you can spot where), hopefully you’ll find it [...]
