A Nielsen report Global Faces and Networked Places, tracks the shift in consumer behaviour and the emerging growth in popularity of social networks. The Nielsen study measured online activity in the USA, Brazil, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Japan and Australia.
AIG has become the poster child for the financial bailout. Public outrage over the financial mess came to a head after it was revealed that $165 million would be paid out in bonuses to AIG employees as a retention strategy. The main focus from the White House was on the financial products division that was [...]
The Pew Internet and American Life Project discovers that Twitter users tend to be a younger, more diverse, and untethered bunch. 11% of online American adults said they used Twitter or similar services to share updates online about their activities from research collected as of December 2008.
Nearly one in five (19%) of online adults ages [...]
Jeff Clark of Neoformix uses statistical analysis to discover patterns in data and presents his findings in some truly amazing visualizations. The NeoMapper was created using Modest Maps and their Processing version. The Twittervision API and Yahoo’s Geocoding API pulled streaming data from Twitter and plotted the location of the tweets, and the map images [...]
The anticipation of Barack Obama’s ascendency as the 44th president of the United States of America and the first African-American to reach the highest level of government was overwhelming. Amid economic crisis, U.S. forces still mired in an unpopular war, and uncertainty about the future there was a feeling of change in the air this [...]
While I’m not one to make predictions, I, like everyone else, can’t help but notice the explosion of Twitter of late. There are several other microblogging services out there at the moment including; Plurk, Friendfeed, Tumblr, and Jaiku. Twitter has been getting much of the attention as it continues to grow at a torrid pace.
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Here’s a very cool map from oxyweb.co.uk showing the traffic trends of social networks (Socnets) across the world. It details the traffic volume for over two-dozen social networks using data from Alexa. While Alexa data may not be the most reliable, it still offers great insight into geographic trends and site popularity. Tracking the gains [...]
Here’s an excerpt from a recent conversation between LinkedIn’s director of ad sales, Steve Patrizi and iMedia Connection’s deputy editor, Michael Estrin.
Steve Patrizi: “It’s important that we don’t just lump all social networks together and assume that the same rules apply to each. Some social networks are specifically designed to facilitate private, intimate conversations, and [...]
Facebook Lexicon is a tool that captures data on user trends in a number of ways. The ‘sentiment’ feature captures the percentage of posts that are positive vs. negative about the topic. Here’s a graph of the ‘sentiment’ of Obama vs. McCain since mid-September. Obama holds a steady lead over McCain with just under 70% [...]
LinkedIn announced late last week that it will be opening up its doors to developers with its own LinkedIn Applications. LinkedIn will extend its use to its 30 million plus business users, giving us more ways to interact with our networks. The new apps will allow businesses to collaborate on projects, share your presentations with [...]
