Motorola's Cliq Joins Smartphone Battleground
3 years 36 weeks ago
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Motorola announced its first Android handset device today: The Motorola Cliq, with "social skills." A new, high-performance smartphone is the focus of the Schaumberg, IL-based company's hope to...
Does Twitter Really Skew to an Older, More Male Demographic than Facebook?
3 years 42 weeks ago
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Last week, Ignite Social Media published a fat social network demographics report which covers more than 40 of the top sites (PDF). Ignite’s numbers were culled from search data, so they have to be taken...
Marketing & Advertising, Business & Finance
Man's Wife a "Hot Single": Quirky News Highlights Growing Facebook Privacy Concerns
3 years 44 weeks ago
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In a story that evokes the narrative of the classic Rupert Holmes song “Escape” (better known to music lovers as “The Piña Colada Song”), a Virginia man was surprised to see his wife’s photo advertising a site...
Innovation & Research, Business & Finance
ComScore: Game Sites Growing 10-Times Faster than Internet
3 years 45 weeks ago
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One of the oft-forgotten components of Web 2.0 is online gaming, which continues to grow at faster rates than many other Web categories. Online gaming grew 22 percent year-over-year, growth that comScore...
The Great Youth Facebook Flight?
3 years 46 weeks ago
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In the last six months, the number of high school and college students using Facebook has declined 16.5 and 21.7 percent respectively, while the numbers of users over the age of 55 has shot up 513.7 percent,...
Andreessen: Facebook Will be Worth Billions in Five Years
3 years 46 weeks ago
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Facebook board member Marc Andreessen said in a Reuters interview that the social networking site is presently on track to make $500 million dollars in 2009. The Netscape founder and Obama-campaign folk...
Michael Jackson's Death Tests Web Infrastructure
3 years 47 weeks ago
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I was at Structure 09 without a laptop all day yesterday, so I was shocked when I returned to the office and found out about Michael Jackson’s death. The news was stunning enough, but what really astounded me...
Time Spent on Social Networks Nearly Doubles in One Year
3 years 48 weeks ago
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The time people spend on social networks has grown 82 percent year-over-year between May 2008 and 2009, according to Nielsen. The average time per person has grown 62 percent in that period. Twitter’s...
Do New Technologies Makes Us More Local than Global?
3 years 48 weeks ago
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The internet flattens the world, they say. But researchers Jacob Goldenberg and Moshe Levy argue the inverse, that the internet makes us more local. The speed and facility of communication driven by...
Bozeman, MT City Job Applicants Give Up Social Site Passwords
3 years 48 weeks ago
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Social networking sites and job professionalism do not mix. This fact has been established by too many photo tag-happy individuals who cannot keep their privacy settings straight. Just assume that your...







