Tag: "users"
Are we addicted to the internet?
The internet is a tool many of us use everyday for work or personal reasons. In fact we recently celebrated the internet becoming 20 years old. Fact is the first 10 years of the internet slowly gathered new users. The last 10 years – user numbers have exploded! It is reported now 1 in 8 […]
Read More | ShareSite showcases most bizarre Facebook updates
In ad-mist all the controversy over Facebook privacy controls recently – a new site has been created to try and get the message across to users about protecting their privacy. The site http://youropenbook.org aggregates some of the most bizarre public Facebook status updates you have ever seen. You are able to search on any topic […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare has 60,000 users in Sydney, Business Survey
It is now estimated that there are 60,000 people in Sydney using the Geo-location mobile service – Foursquare. A recent survey of local businesses using Foursquare has generated some interesting responses. Only 10% of businesses using Foursquare said they would be willing to pay for the service. This is an alarming rate, especially considering Foursquare […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media stats in Australia- Facebook, Blogger, MySpace
On a per capital basis Australia has one of the highest uptakes of social media in the world. Out of our population of 21 million, 14 million Australians are internet users. The most popular social media sites in Australia are: Facebook, Blogger and MySpace. Facebook has 9.2 million Australian users which is almost 66% of […]
Read More | ShareMicrosoft 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 | 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 | ShareGoogle crowns Facebook 1st in page views, Yahoo 2nd
Google has recently released more internet traffic data from their Google Adplanner / DoubleClick system. According to Adplanner, Facebook is visited by 540 million people monthly – which is around 35% of the internet population. Yahoo network is visited by 490 million visitors per month – 31% of the internet population. On Facebook approximately 570 […]
Read More | ShareLinkedIn is Maturing
LinkedIn is known as the Facebook for professionals. B2B proffessionals from around the world have been engaging on LinkedIn to help meet new contacts, learn and teach in their own professions and most importantly increase sales leads. The below infographic shows the state of where LinkedIn is currently at with a breakdown of demographics, professions and geolocations of current LinkedIn users. With 1.2 […]
Read More | ShareThe End for Facebook?
May 31 has been labelled as ‘Quit facebook day’. Is this really the end for Facebook? There have been recent global movements to put an end to Facebook’s monopolising of the web, mainly because of their privacy policies. There are a couple of reasons why people are scared of what Facebook is doing such as making more information available […]
Read More | ShareNew Facebook privacy controls
Facebook is in the process of rolling out their new privacy controls. Facebook is simplifying their system so with a single click you are able to set the privacy option on various account and information settings. Mark Zuckerberg announced the changes yesterday and there has been positive comments from various Government officials, Senators and technology […]
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