What 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 MoreSmartBrief Advertising Industry Predictions for 2011
Recent responses collected from SmartBrief showing different opinions regarding the US advertising market, social media marketing plans, regulation and more: What overall trend do you anticipate in the U.S. advertising market in 2011? More slow, steady growth 64.42% U.S. advertising spending will be about the same 22.12% Economic growth and ad spending will accelerate rapidly 11.54% Spending will be down from 2010 1.92% Do you expect your company to create jobs in...
Read MoreBlack, Green and Cyber – The Colors of Online Spending
In 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. The week ending December 12 surpassed $5.31 billion in spending, an increase of 12 percent in comparison to the same week in 2009. Monday, December 13, known as “Green...
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 MoreBeware … The End Is Near … For Google, At Least.
Pundits 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, while Facebook users languish in the throws of interpersonal communication for hours on end. Hardly a fair fight. Yes, I do realize they are talking about...
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