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0December 22, 2009
Top Mobile Phones, Sites & Brands in 2009
From Nielsen Wire:
The iPhone and various Blackberry handhelds dominated the mobile device market, while Google, Yahoo! and YouTube led the way as far as most accessed sites and brands on the mobile web. [...]
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0December 16, 2009
Facebook’s Road To An IPO
With the recent introduction of a dual-class stock structure emulating that of Google, rumors of an impending Facebook IPO abound. Though nothing has been officially announced, it seems a likely possibility in 2010. Below we look at the ever-changing and often controversial valuation time line of one of the web’s most popular [...]
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0December 15, 2009
Morgan Stanley’s Mobile Internet Report
Today the good folks over at Morgan Stanley released Mary Meeker’s amazing mobile Internet tome. It’s a wealth of information for all things related to the mobile web… stats, trends, forecasts and more. There are several versions since some may be a bit intimidated by the the full 694-page report.
Below, I’ve included each version: The Mobile Internet Report [...]
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0November 23, 2009
Videos Rise 98% on Social Networking Sites
From Nielsen Wire:
Facebook is Top Social Networking Destination by Video Streams for the 2nd Month in a Row in October
Time spent viewing video on social networking sites increased 98 percent year-over-year, from 503.8 million minutes in October 2008 to 999.4 million minutes in October 2009, according to Nielsen. In [...]
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0November 11, 2009
Boxee Beta Unveiling on Dec 7th
In the last year Boxee has gone after the media center world with a vengeance. What’s surprising is that they’ve been quite successful while remaining in just an alpha release. That is, until December 7th, when Boxee rolls out an official beta release. The new version promises several enhancements like; a new user interface, better navigation, search functionality for TV shows and movies [...]
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2November 09, 2009
Xbox Live Update Preview II Review
It’s been over two weeks since I first got preview access to the new Xbox Live update. But, I didn’t really get into it until this past weekend and I must say, overall, they did a great job. Xbox has been touting these new offerings since they were first announced back in June. While the official release of the public update is still unannounced, Xbox is giving its preview users plenty to check out. [...]
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0October 30, 2009
How Google Social Search Works
Google recently launched a new experimental feature in Google Labs that searches your social circle in addition to your regular Google search results. Announced at Web 2.0 in San Francisco last week, Google Social Search is currently in its Beta testing phase. In the video below, Matt Cutts from the search quality team explains how Google Social Search works. [...]
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0October 20, 2009
20 Essential Resources for 4 of the Web’s Hottest Social APIs
From Mashable:
This series is supported by PayPal X Innovate 2009, PayPal’s first dedicated developer conference. Register for $49 with the code ppblog3 or join us at $50 if you are a student.
The API (Application Programming Interface) has been [...]
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0September 01, 2009
Brand New World
View more documents from Marta Kagan.
Modified version of “What the F**k is Social Media” presented on August 25, 2009 at 321 Takeoff’s Brand New World event www.itsabrandnewworld.com.
Marta is the S**t!
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2August 28, 2009
New Site Features
Yesterday I implemented a couple of enhancements to this site. I’m thoroughly happy with the outcome and thought I’d point out some of the fresh new goodness. What’s really cool is that while I incorporated just two new features (essentially two custom plugins) the end result is a number of features that provide a full smorgasbord of social media connectivity. I’m really lovin’ the functionality and [...]
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