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: [...]
What Do 10 Million Facebook Friendships Look Like?
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SmartBrief Advertising Industry Predictions for 2011
TweetRecent 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 [...]
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Black, Green and Cyber – The Colors of Online Spending
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. [...]
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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) [...]
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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. [...]
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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Twitter Wants You To Push Its Buttons … Twitter’s New Tweet Button, That Is
TweetTweet Twitter has become ubiquitous with sharing information through social media. In fact, according to a recent post on their blog, Twitter shares that nearly a quarter of all Tweets include a link. One of the common complaints surrounding Twitter is the work that is required to share information in the form of a Tweet. Copy. Paste. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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