TweetThis year for the super bowl, not too many ads aired without a link displayed to their corresponding website, their twitter or facebook pages, and in Audi’s case, their ad took a twitter hashtag mainstream. We spent Super Bowl XLV engaged online, devouring Buffalo Wild Wings at our local Buffalo Wild Wings location. Some may [...]
Did You Observe or Engage for Super Bowl XLV?
Cast Your Vote! Best and Worst Ads of Super Bowl 45?
TweetShare your thoughts on super bowl 45 and which ads were your favorite. From the buzz on Twitter, it seems many were disappointed! Which ads from Super Bowl 45 were the GREATEST disappointment? Can’t remember? Check out this line up in order of the game to refresh your memory …
What Do 10 Million Facebook Friendships Look Like?
TweetRecently, an intern working on Facebook’s data infrastructure engineering team took a sample of nearly 10 million pairs of friends from Facebook’s data warehouse and plotted out their relationships. The result? This intriguingly beautiful image and an accurate map of the world. Here are the thoughts that Paul shared about the image and its creation: [...]
Year In Review: A Look Back at 2009
TweetCurious to see what we were talking about on Twitter in 2009? Here’s the list: 2009 Twitter Trends News Events 1. #iranelection 2. Swine Flu 3. Gaza 4. Iran 5. Tehran 6. #swineflu 7. AIG 8. #uksnow 9. Earth Hour 10. #inaug09 People 1. Michael Jackson 2. Susan Boyle 3. Adam Lambert 4. Kobe (Bryant) [...]
Year In Review 2010 Trends on Twitter
Tweet The numbers are in. Over 25 billion tweets were sent in 2010, and Twitter has analyzed these tweets and organized them into the top categories as the overall top 10 Twitter trends. Twitter has broken out the top trending topics into eight categories: News Events, People, Movies, Television, Technology, World Cup, Sports, and Hashtags. [...]
Lest We Forget … 69th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor Remembered
TweetLest we forget … today is the 69th anniversary of the sneak attack on the US Pacific Fleet anchored in Pearl Harbor, on the island of O’ahu in Hawaii where 2,403 American servicemen and women lost their lives. This years event was attended by just 120 survivors as due to advancing age there are fewer remaining each year. That attack [...]
Happy 80th Birthday Mickey Mouse!!
Tweet“I hope that we never lose sight of one thing: that it was all started by a Mouse.” – Walt Disney. We remember these famous words on 80th Mickey Mouse birthday. On this day 80 years ago, the scrawny little mouse broke onto the scene with his first film Steam Boat Willie, On November 18, [...]
comScore Releases September 2010 U.S. Online Video Rankings
TweetTop 10 Video Content Properties by Unique Viewers Google Sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube.com, ranked as the top online video content property with 144.2 million unique viewers. Yahoo! Sites captured the #2 spot with 54.4 million viewers, followed by Facebook.com with 52.2 million viewers. Microsoft Sites jumped 3 positions in September, securing [...]
What Can Location Based Services Do For You?
TweetAccording to the Chinese calendar, 2010 is the year of the Tiger, but for social platforms it is the year of Location Based Services. A location based service may not strike as much fear in the heart as a tiger would, but it is a service that should stop some businesses in their tracks because [...]
Social Networking by People 50+ Doubles in One Year Pew Research Reports
TweetA new Internet & American Life Project by the Pew Research Center reveals that social networking use among Internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled from 22 percent in April 2009 to 42 percent in May 2010, according to a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Social networking use among [...]