Did You Observe or Engage for Super Bowl XLV?
This 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 think this is sensory overload, but we feel like we’ve uncovered the best way to watch big events like the super bowl. We drove to our local Buffalo Wild...
Read MoreCast Your Vote! Best and Worst Ads of Super Bowl 45?
Share your thoughts on super bowl 45 and which ads were your favorite. [poll id=”4″] From the buzz on Twitter, it seems many were disappointed! Which ads from Super Bowl 45 were the GREATEST disappointment? [poll id=”5″] Can’t remember? Check out this line up in order of the game to refresh your memory...
Read MoreWhat Do 10 Million Facebook Friendships Look Like?
Recently, 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: After a few minutes of rendering, the new plot appeared, and I was a bit taken aback by what I saw. The blob had turned into a...
Read MoreYear In Review: A Look Back at 2009
Curious 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) 5. Chris Brown 6. Chuck Norris 7. Joe Wilson 8. Tiger Woods 9. Christian Bale 10. A-Rod (Alex Rodriguez) Movies 1. Harry Potter 2. New Moon 3. District 9 4. Paranormal Activity 5. Star Trek 6....
Read MoreYear In Review 2010 Trends on Twitter
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. Twitter’s list indicates what we were interested in during the course of the year and what the buzz was online. It should be noted that this is a...
Read MoreLest We Forget … 69th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor Remembered
Lest 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 thrust the US into World War II and a total of 405,399 American military personnel lost their lives in combat and non-combat roles during the...
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