October 2010
Foursquare Doomed? Facebook Places Has 7X More... →
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Users as in used how many times? Once or over and over and over…
About 30 million people have tried Facebook places, a single source who works with Facebook tells us.
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Despite A Surging User Base, Facebook Remains... →
Last quarter, Facebook was the social network with the fastest average response time – a near instantaneous 1.02 seconds. For those of you who don’t know, average response time describes the amount…
Google yearns to make YouTube a TV network (Claire... →
Claire Atkinson / New York Post: Google yearns to make YouTube a TV network — Tweet — YouTube wants to be the boob tube. — Google is pitching YouTube not only as a popular Web…
Facebook, Twitter say social is the new normal
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Reuters - The social networking phenomenon has nowhere to go but up as computer use becomes more mobile, according to leading figures in the development of the popular sites Facebook and Twitter.
Microsoft latest to dump PR wires for earnings... →
MICROSOFT corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has become the latest high-profile company to end the decades-old practice of using a paid PR wire service to distribute its quarterly earnings announcements – a…
David Karp Explains How Companies Can Win Points... →
Leon Neyfakh / New York Observer: David Karp Explains How Companies Can Win Points With Tumblr Users By Boosting Their Self Esteem — Speaking on a New Yorker-sponsored panel…
Twitter Used to Gather Questions for White House... →
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs took questions from Twitter users this morning and answered a select few in a video on YouTube. “Something new,” Gibbs Tweeted,”You take first crack….
Chart: How Newspaper E-Editions Are Faring (Amanda... →
Amanda Natividad / paidContent: Chart: How Newspaper E-Editions Are Faring — One circulation metric that wasn’t down year-over-year for U.S. newspapers during the first half…
Six keys to success in social media →
One of my colleagues, Pierre Killeen, developed a list of six strategic considerations that corporate communications should bear in mind when planning their approach to using social media. I was…
SEO Is Dead, And The New King Is 'SMO' (Ben... →
Ben Elowitz / paidContent: SEO Is Dead, And The New King Is ‘SMO’ — Ben Elowitz (@elowitz) is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a web publisher, and author of the Digital Quarters…
StumbleUpon Video Gets More Personalized →
StumbleUpon has just rolled out an upgrade to its StumbleUpon Video product, adding support for third-party services like Hulu and TED, as well as…
Flickr Suggests People You May Know →
Photo-sharing site Flickr has just added a new feature that lets you find Flickr users you might know. The new feature is similar (OK, exactly the same)…
Best New 46- to 47-Inch HDTVs - PC World →
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MDEA is a client.
PC World
Best New 46- to 47-Inch HDTVs PC World Again, the LG television’s options are relatively limited, and the…
Is Facebook A Media Company? Is Apple? (Joe... →
Joe Marchese / MediaPost: Is Facebook A Media Company? Is Apple? — It seems like only yesterday Google was constantly reminding everyone who would listen that Google was NOT a media…
Facebook Limits Page Name Changes To Those With... →
Yesterday we wrote that many Facebook Page administrators would soon be able to change their Page names, however we didn’t know the limit. Now we do: pages with more than 100 fans cannot change…
Behold, the Next Media Titans: Apple, Google,... →
Fred Vogelstein / Epicenter: Behold, the Next Media Titans: Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon — smith/flickr. Used with gratitude via a Creative Commons license. — Venture…
5 New Ways to Market Your Brand on Facebook →
The Facebook Marketing Series is supported by the Buddy Media Platform. Seven of the world’s top 10 brands drive their brand on Facebook with the…
There is No New Media: It’s All New Consumption →
“The most ominous of fallacies–the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.” –Freyda Stark
So, now television broadcasters are blocking Google TV from getting access to the…
Plans for News Corp.'s iPad Tabloid Taking Shape -... →
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media: Plans for News Corp.’s iPad Tabloid Taking Shape — Fast! — Who launches a newspaper in the year 2010? Rupert Murdoch, that’s who. The News…
Wanted: Social Media Sifters (Ryan Flinn/Business... →
Ryan Flinn / Business Week: Wanted: Social Media Sifters — Companies are increasing spending for the collection and analysis of online chatter—and social media monitoring outfits are…
How US newspapers are coping with abusive... →
Roy Greenslade / Guardian: How US newspapers are coping with abusive commenters — What’s to be done when readers’ online comments tip over from the critical into the abusive? That…
The Future Of Television And The Digital Living... →
Dana Settle & I are hosting a dinner tonight (Oct. 20, 2010) with some of the biggest companies in entertainment to talk about the future of television, film, and digital media. Michael…
Does Paper.li Break Twitter? →
I love Paper.li, it’s one of the most innovative and useful services I have seen in a long time. I actually look forward to people I follow coming out with their “The xyz Daily is Out” tweets…
Internet users to exceed 2 billion this year
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Reuters - The number of Internet users will surpass two billion this year, approaching a third of the world population, but developing countries need to step up access to the vital tool for economic…
10 Things You Need To Know This Morning (AAPL,... →
Good Morning! Here’s the news:
Apple reported strong earnings last night, but soft iPad sales (which it says was due to supply issues). Steve Jobs was on the earnings call, and stole the…
Does Apple want to buy Facebook? →
Peter Kafka at All Things Digital thinks that Steve Jobs might want to buy Facebook. His reasoning is that Jobs, when asked what Apple plans to do with its now $51 billion in cash,…
Top 25 U.S. Newspapers Ranked By Twitter Followers... →
Jeremy Porter / Journalistics: Top 25 U.S. Newspapers Ranked By Twitter Followers — While the Top 50 U.S. newspapers seem to be just starting to build up their fan base on…
A Newspaper Pay Wall Goes Up-And So Do Visitor... →
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo: A Newspaper Pay Wall Goes Up-And So Do Visitor Numbers — The New York Times is getting ready to roll out a “metered model” pay wall in January, and…
Survey: One Third of Small Businesses Use Social... →
The use of social media to connect with customers is growing among small businesses, according to the results of a semi-annual survey released last week by American Express OPEN, the small…
Foursquare Will Hit 4 Million Members This Week
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Mashable - Foursquare is set to hit 4 million members this week, a source close to the company has revealed to Mashable. The milestone member metric comes roughly 50 days after the location-based…
Facebook Apps Send User Info — Should You Care? →
Facebook has been caught in another privacy-related dust-up, after the Wall Street Journal reported that a number of the social network’s most popular apps and games have been sending…
Top 25 U.S. Newspapers on Facebook →
While Google PageRank is an accurate gauge of authority on the Web, it doesn’t tell us much about how much people ‘Like’ a newspaper. When it comes to ‘Likes’, Facebook is…
Claim: Hard news pays off for newspapers websites →
AdAge.com || prweb.com Nat Ives reports newspaper websites get more ad revenue from articles about serious topics like the Gulf oil spill than from traffic bait like stories on celebrity scandals….
How the Top 25 U.S. Newspapers Stack Up Online... →
Jeremy Porter / Journalistics: How the Top 25 U.S. Newspapers Stack Up Online — Most newspaper rankings are usually based on circulation numbers from the Audit Bureau of…
Size Does Matter When It Comes To Tablets,... →
Tim Carmody / Epicenter: Size Does Matter When It Comes To Tablets, Newspapers Fear — The iPad has been a hit with newspaper and magazine publishers because its 9.7-inch…
How Reuters is changing →
Reuters editor in chief David Schlesinger spoke to journalists and students at the University of Hong Kong on Friday about how journalism is changing, and how Reuters has changed due to the recent…
How to turn a paper of record into a website of... →
Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard: How to turn a paper of record into a website of record — Last week Arthur Brisbane, the new public editor of the New York…
New York Times launches full-content iPad app →
Poynter Online Mobile Media It replaces NYT’s Editors’ Choice app. The new app is free for now, but that will change when the Times rolls out its website pay wall in early 2011.
Is Tumblr the Next Twitter? →
If 140 characters isn’t enough room for all the insightful things you have to say, then maybe you’re ready for Tumblr.
The New York Times goes into detail about the attributes of the…
Most CEOs not tapping into social media →
Study of top CEOs finds that 64 percent aren’t tap into social networking to communicate with customers, stakeholders, says PR firm Weber Shandwick.
Condé Nast Study Concludes iPad Is Not A Mobile... →
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something for the couch, not the commute? Not sure I agree with that.
There have been over 3.8 million downloads of Condé Nast apps on the iPad and iPhone since the…
Facebook and Bing’s Plan to Make Search Social →
Microsoft and Facebook have announced a new partnership that brings “Like” data and profile search to Bing. The deal marks a big leap forward in social search…
The Digital Newspaper: Hands-On with 4 Top iPad... →
Mashable - Consumers have more digital options for reading the news than ever before. From pithy, one-line updates on Twitter, to RSS feed readers with customizable content, to dedicated apps from…
Study: 82% Of U.S. Consumers Bail On Brands After... →
The spotlight — or maybe the flood light — shines on bad customer service online. Companies should worry about public complaints and reports of their brand failures more than ever, suggests a…
Boomers and Millennials Have Similar Tech... →
While the boomer generation may not be the first group to run out and buy the latest technology, they’re nearly as likely as younger generations to own computers, access the Web on a daily basis,…
Google News Showing News Based On Twitter Friends →
A week ago at Search Engine Land, I reported Google News is testing Twitter integration. Google News is experimenting with allowing some users enter their Twitter username and receive personalized…
Boomers and Millennials Have Similar Tech... →
While the boomer generation may not be the first group to run out and buy the latest technology, they’re nearly as likely as younger generations to own computers, access the Web on a daily basis,…
Short Attention Spans for Web Videos (Alex... →
Alex Mindlin / New York Times: Short Attention Spans for Web Videos — After watching an online video for a full minute, 44.1 percent of viewers will have clicked away,…
Posterous Gets an iPhone App →
Posterous, the minimalist blogging platform, may have allowed users to post to their blogs via email, or even the specially-formatted Posterous for mobile devices, but now it’s gone that one…
Twitter Crushing Facebook's Click-Through Rate:... →
Austin Carr / Fast Company: Twitter Crushing Facebook’s Click-Through Rate: Report — What is the most effective way for marketers to spread their message online? Facebook?…
