Location-based social networks and other location-based services have been immensely popular this past year. As such, it doesn’t come as a surprise that people are getting ready to make the most of these services this holiday season. JiWire, a leading mobile audience media company, recently released their Mobile Audience Insights Report, which included a lot…
Facebook is the largest publisher of Internet display ads. If you’ve seen video ads, small ads, or any static ads lately, chances are they were published by social media site Facebook. According to comScore, Facebook ad impressions represent 23.1% of the market share. Yahoo only holds 11% of the market and Microsoft represents about 5%…
Facebook just announced today the long awaited news of their rumored email system. But is it really email? Not quite, according to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook’s new messaging system can handle IM, SMS, and email, but it’s not email itself. However, Facebook users are going to be able to send messages with an @facebook.com…
Tired of browsing on Facebook? Bored of the chatter on Twitter? Well, there’s always something new to watch on YouTube. According to YouTube’s blog, 35 hours of video is uploaded every minute. To put it into perspective, YouTube estimates that 35 hours of video per minute is the equivalent of over 176,000 full-length Hollywood releases…
Today Ask.com, once a powerful contender in the search engine industry, laid off most of their search engineers, and has stepped out of the search engine market. Although Ask.com will still provide a search feature, the service and the algorithm will now be contracted through one of their competitors, likely Google. Since 2005, Ask.com has…
Brand pages, also known as fan pages on Facebook, have proven how powerful social media is in creating a name for products and services. Twitter’s microblogging feature updates followers with the latest promotions on merchandise in less than 140 characters. To optimize social networking sites for your online business, we give you a few helpful…
When you think search engines, you think Google. With over 60% market share, Google still dominates the search engine market. It’s no surprise then that Google is constantly innovating, in an effort to stay on top. Google’s most recent creation is Google Instant Previews, a new tool that allows users to view a screenshot of…
Money may be universal but in the world of e-commerce, it comes in different forms. In an article for GetElastic.com, Peter Sheldon wrote some of the different forms of global payments for e-commerce transactions all over the world. According to Sheldon, China has the largest consumer market in the world with 420 million Internet users….
Digital politics has now entered the social media world. Now that Election Day is here, more and more candidates invest time in doing social media via Facebook and Twitter. Forget that you are looking through personal accounts of John Heckenlively or Republican candidate Thaddeus McCotter. The practice of social media has become a mainstay of…
Internet users worldwide spend approximately 4.6 hours each week on social media, compared to only 4.4 hours spent on email. According to the TNS Digital Life study, social media consumes more of our time, but email still remains on top as the most common Internet activity. It makes sense that web users spend the most…
