TweetIn a look at the colors of the online spending rainbow, ComScore reported the holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 43 days of the November – December 2010 holiday season. To date, more than $23.82 billion has been spent online, which is a 12 percent increase versus the same time period for 2009. [...]
Black, Green and Cyber – The Colors of Online Spending
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 [...]
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 [...]
Beware … The End Is Near … For Google, At Least.
TweetPundits web wide are asking if Google is afraid of Facebook based on the latest comScore data regarding time spent on sites owned by each of the megalith internet companies. Well … hold on a minute … last time I checked, actual time spent on Google’s search site averages about 3 nano seconds to return about 150 gazillion results, [...]
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 [...]
King James and How He Leveraged Twitter …
TweetTweet What can business owners learn from LeBron James? Any thoughts on what the most active water cooler buzz was about recently? World events? Global warming? The BP oil debacle? Not so much … Arguably the biggest question on the tip of everybody’s tongue was where NBA all star LeBron James would end up? While [...]
Location Based Social Media … The Sexy Newcomer to the Social Scene
TweetTweet No matter how you look at it, Foursquare is sexy and offers something that Facebook and Twitter do not. Foursquare is a Location-Based Service (LBS) that has been around since March of 2009 and has 1.3 million members already checking into it’s registered locations. This number, actually the growth, is incredible. it is comparable [...]
“Shocked” By Recent Facebook Virus and Spam Attack
TweetTweet Beware of a recent Facebook virus that we’ve seen circulating online beginning early today, Friday, June 25, 2010. It will arrive as a message in your inbox on Facebook and will include a link. Immediately delete this message and do not click on the link. If you receive this message, you should notify the [...]