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Google Wave, retirement

Google has admitted in a blog post that the Google Wave product never gathered enough users and there is now the possibility that the product will be pulled. Google has said they will continue supporting the product for the rest of the year and the code will be open source so other developers can use […]

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Breaking down Facebook’s 500 Million Users

David Correll on July 23, 2010 | Facebook | Comments (0)

Ok, so Facebook has now hit the 500 million user make. Lets look at how this is broken-down. Of the 500 million users: 34% reside in North America 32% in Europe 9% in South America 3% in Africa 20% in Asia 2% in Australia Looking at Australian Facebook statistics, of our total population – there […]

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Facebook Passes 500 Million Users

David Correll on July 22, 2010 | Facebook Social Media | Comments (0)

Facebook has announced that it has passed 500 million members. CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a blog post: ‘I could have never imagined all of the ways people would use Facebook when we were getting started 6 years ago. I want to thank you for being part of making Facebook what it is today and […]

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User Donations helping Reddit

David Correll on July 14, 2010 | Reddit Social Bookmarking Social Media | Comments (0)

Social Bookmarking Service, Reddit, has been in a spot of financial troubles lately and they asked their users if they could support the site with contributions. This has been a success with Reddit after about 6000 members donated to their cause. The donations will goto employing new staff and keeping the service reliable and online. […]

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Facebook Applications now tell what Private Data is Shared

David Correll on July 1, 2010 | Facebook | Comments (0)

Facebook is rolling out a new feature that requires 3rd party applications to inform users exactly what parts of their profiles will be shared to make the applications work. Applications already had to ask for user permission to access anything in their profiles that wasn’t public. But these apps didn’t actually have to specify what […]

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Social Media and Online Video [STATS]

David Correll on June 30, 2010 | Facebook MySpace Social Media Youtube | Comments (0)

Over the past couple years the use of video across the web has exploded. Video used to be a technical and ‘hard to create’ media – but now with an abundance of online tools it is easier than ever for regular internet users to create and watch videos online. Social Media Video statistics to take […]

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[HUGE] Facebook and Twitter Integrate

David Correll on June 24, 2010 | Facebook Twitter | Comments (0)

Twitter has announced that it is bringing major updates to their connections with Facebook and LinkedIn. A new Facebook app has been created – the Twitter app for Facebook. http://apps.facebook.com/twitter/ This allows you to post your Tweets onto your Facebook profile, lets you see which of your Facebook friends are on Twitter – and even […]

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Facebook ready to launch Location Based Services

David Correll on June 23, 2010 | Facebook Geo-location Geolocation | Comments (0)

There has been alot of competition lately location-based services (LBS) market (applications such as Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite) and that has now sparked interested from Facebook Twitter has just launched their own Twitter location features showing they too want to capitalise on this rapidly expanding segment. That moves the whole Twitter service one step close to […]

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How does the world spend its time online? [statistics]

David Correll on June 23, 2010 | Social Media | Comments (1)

As Global internet users how are we spending our time online? Here are some interesting statistics for you to think about: – 22% of our time is spent on social networking sites – 42% of our time is spent viewing websites – 36% is other activities such as email, web searches, commerce, shopping. On a […]

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Latest Twitter statistics update

David Correll on June 21, 2010 | Twitter | Comments (0)

Twitter recently hit its 10 billionth tweet in February this year. This has come from about 80 million users currently using the site. A majority of Twitter’s users and usage has come in the last 6-12 months. User retention rate is around 40%. Alot of people come and leave. Many people drop the service after […]

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