Archive for June, 2010
Microsoft adds new social search feature to Bing
Microsoft has added a new social search feature to the Bing search engine allowing users to see the trending topcis on Facebook and Twitter. You are able to access the Bing social search at the following link www.bing.com/social No doubt there will be a lot of trending tweets about Justin Bieber 🙂 Microsoft Senior Vice […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Revolution in Australia
BoxHill Institute in Melbourne, Australia is an education provider and Eric Qualman has put together a presentation on some key social media statistics in Australia and world-wide. To summaries: – Australia is the most prolific social media users in the world beating the USA and UK on a per capita basis. – In the US, […]
Read More | ShareTwitter to change how shortened links are displayed
Twitter is making a change over the coming weeks as to how shortened links are displayed on the site. Twitter will be using shortened t.co links to better protect users from malicious sites that engage in spreading malware, phishing attacks, viruses, and other harmful activity. Basically an effort to improve security to Twitter users. The […]
Read More | Share20 Interesting Social Media statistics
20 Interesting Facts about Social Media #1 – Social media spending is expected to increase from $716 million in 2008 to $3.1 billion in 2014, which is a compound annual growth rate of 34% (CAGR) #2 – That 34% CAGR means that social media spending is growing faster than any other interactive marketing category #3 […]
Read More | ShareSteve Jobs stats from WWDC
If you don’t have time to watch the full WWDC Keynote by Steve Jobs here are some very interesting stats Steve mentioned: – Approximately 15,000 apps are submitted to the AppStore each week, of these 95% are approved within 7 days – The top 3 reasons for an application being rejected from the App store […]
Read More | ShareGoogle says Microsoft is clever, smart and well funded
It is clear as crystal the battle between Google and Microsoft (with Apple in there too) in one of the internets great rivalries. Google CEO Eric Schmidt has made comments on Microsoft’s entrance to the search market saying the software giant is ‘well-funded, smart and clever’. Google holds a high majority of the search market […]
Read More | ShareFull Apple WWDC Keynote now Available for Viewing
If you head over to the official Apple website you will now be able to view the full keynote where Steve Jobs discusses all things iPhone. What you think of the new features? Do we really need video calling?
Read More | ShareAdMob CEO Omar Hamoui on Google and Apple
AdMob is the only real major advertising platform on the current iPhones and iPads. However with Apple announcing news term of service is iOS4 this means any 3rd party applications cannot send data to a 3rd party provider like AdMob does. This could mean Apple shuts AdMob out of the iPhone and iPad markets which […]
Read More | ShareiPad numbers by Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs has given us some insightful comments into the iPad at yesterdays Apple WWDC. In particular the iBooks and iBookstore is looking especially promising for Apple and its publishers. Steve gave us the following stats about the iPad yesterday. – 2,000,000 iPads sold since April, that’s once every 3 seconds. – 8500 native iPad […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare CEO Dennis Crowley a grown up Justin Bieber?
Is it just me, or does Dennis Crowley look like a grown up Justin Bieber? Maybe their hair looks similar. Does anyone if Dennis does a ‘cute’ hair flick like Justin? I think there is some sort of resemblance going on 🙂 What do you think? Do you even care? 😮
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