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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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% [...]
Location-based social networks have been in development over the last several years but have only recently been made popular with the launch of the iPhone 3G and the Apple App Store opening up to developers. What’s unique to these social networks is their ability to map a user’s current location by using the GPS capabilities [...]
Title: PodCamp Montreal
Location: Montreal
Description: An ‘unconference’ gathering of new media enthusiasts and professionals to discuss podcasting, blogging, social networking and how to use web 2.0 technologies to engage users.
Check the PodCamp event schedule for topics and list of speakers.
Register for PodCamp Montreal here
Start Date: 2008-09-20
End Date: 2008-09-21
