Social Media Archive

• 0January 24, 2010

  Social Technographic Profiles

  Nearly three years ago, Forrester Research released a study of Social Media where they grouped Internet users into six segments of social media usage, dubbed Social Technographic Profiles. These six profiles – Creators, Critics, Collectors, Joiners, Spectators, and Inactives, became widely used in the industry to describe the behaviors of consumers in social media, and to help inform corporate social [...]

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• 0January 10, 2010

  The Future Internet: Service Web 3.0

  With over a billion users, today’s Internet is arguably the most successful human artifact ever created. The Future Internet, an initiative driven by the European Union, has become a prime research focus of STI International and the Service Web 3.0 project. In order to explain, promote, and attract new contributors, we created a video to be viewed by stakeholders, who may be non-experts, in a new [...]

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• 0January 05, 2010

  Online Video Continues To Surge

  November Sees Number of U.S. Videos Viewed Online Surpass 30 Billion for First Time on Record
  Hulu Extends All-Time High to 924 Million Videos Viewed

  RESTON, VA, January 5, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released November [...]

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• 0December 17, 2009

  How HTML5 Will Change the Way You Use the Web

  I’ve been meaning to get down to the nitty-gritty of HTML 5 and write a post about it for months now.
  HTML5 is the next major revision of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), the core markup language of the World Wide Web. The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) started work on the specification in June 2004 under the name Web [...]

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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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• 0November 11, 2009

  Protected: vPass - Your Ultimate V.I.P. Pass

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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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