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 [...]
For many, watching the Super Bowl ads is an event in and of itself. This year, there were several ways for Super Bowl viewers to watch and rate their favourite ads.
The Ad Blitz channel on YouTube allowed viewers to vote until February 4, 2009. Ad Blitz has received over 3.4 million channel views to date.
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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 [...]
Amazon and Sears were quick to capitalize on the potential of m-commerce with Sears launching its mobile optimized site sears2go.com and Amazon launching its ‘TextBuyIt’ service in April 2008. Amazon’s latest innovation, ‘Amazon Remembers’ allows iPhone users to take a picture of a product, the Amazon system will then scan the millions of items in [...]
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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It’s been an exciting year in the web analytics world. Let’s take a look back at some of the biggest stories of the year and what to expect in 2009! Rockey Nebhwani of Infosys Consulting writes an excellent post here, giving us a visual representation of some of the big stories in web analytics over [...]
Twitter has just released an official statement indicating that effective immediately Twitter will no longer be offering outbound SMS in Canada. Shame on Canadian mobile carriers for continuing to squeeze customers at every turn and forcing companies like Twitter to remove services that many people use. Twitter stated that a scalable solution is in the [...]
