December 15, 2008

Enlightening Look at Social Media Activity of Forty Million Americans

By Nichole Mrasek

Netpop Research is releasing data on the online habits of social networks. The findings cite “76% of all U.S. broadband users actively contribute to social media sites in one form or another, and 29% contribute regularly to social networking sites.” Comparisons are drawn between social networkers and non-social media users. Facebook and MySpace also go head-to-head in the research, with Facebook touting the largest increase in users from 2006 – 2008 (500%).

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Study Shows Many Would Rather Forgo Sex than Give Up Internet Access

In their study “Internet Reliance in Today’s Economy,” Harris Interactive and Intel wanted to know just how far consumers would be willing to go to have the Internet. New York Times reports, “According to the study, 46% of women and 30% of men would opt to forgo sex for two weeks instead of giving up access to their precious Internet for the same period.”

Read more from the report, here.

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December 13, 2008

Best Web Services of 2008

Silicon Valley blogger Louis Gray reviews the ten best new Web services from 2008 and previews how the services will fair in 2009. Summize, ReadBurner, SocialToo are among the top reviewed.

To see who made the list, check it out here.

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December 11, 2008

Fast Company Forecasts for 2009 on the Web

"8 Experts Predict How Web 2.0 Will Evolve” provides insight on possible emerging digital trends we might expect to see in the new year.

Influencers from leading organizations and online media share their thoughts on how the mainstream impact from 2008 will carry over into social media in 2009.

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December 10, 2008

Did You Know 3.0 Video

A must-watch powerful video on the magnitude of digital and predictions for its growth. You can view the video here.

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December 09, 2008

The New York Times Launches Times Extra

In a rather adventurous move for the top daily paper, NYT is changing their homepage and allowing consumers to view top stories from other Web sources. From Times Extra: “Enrich your news reading experience with Times Extra. This new feature on nytimes.com offers related links from other news sources and blogs from around the Web.” Check it out here.

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December 07, 2008

When Clients Want Viral

Clients ask for their campaigns to “go viral” and AdAge’s “Can You Guess Which Pitch Is a Real Viral Campaign? Apparently, Many Agencies Can’t” serves as a great discussion on viral. AdAge defines viral campaigns as, “content passed from one person to another, including images, videos, links, applications, games, stories, e-mails, documents or virtually any other type of digital content that one person passes to another via e-mail, IM, text messaging, or social network like Twitter, FriendFeed, etc.”

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December 06, 2008

Facebook Video Upgrade

The Facebook Blog reports on higher video quality for uploads now available on Facebook . Additionally Facebook states, “You’ll also be able to take videos you’ve added to Facebook and embed them on other websites. If you have a blog, personal or business website, you’ll be able to display any of your Facebook videos on that site as well.” With 100,000 videos added a day, more than 45 million to date, this updated format is sure to please fans and enhance consumer viewing experience.

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