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Mon Feb, 2011 by Tiffany Risner
Trending topics on Twitter generally break down into 3 categories (exluding the ever-prevalent Spam as a category): Personal, Promotional and News. Take for instance today’s Top 10 Trends via What The Trend: #iwasthekid – personal #bornthiswaymusicvideo – promotional 1vdebat – news (Dutch) Kirk Douglas – news Wideman news Annie Girardot – news Mother Monster – [...]
Mon Feb, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
Third party sites are now littered with Facebook’s ”Like” button. Since its release last year over 2.5 million websites allow users to link their approval of content to their FaceBook accounts. However, that reference usually only garnered a slight mention on their FB wall. FB has changed that result. From: Uchic Until this recent change [...]
Mon Feb, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
The switch for consumers towards online banks is still happening. This is important because of all the online sectors banking is the least trusted. In 2010, only 75% of bank customers checked their accounts online. In 2005, that number was 44%. There are still some activities where most people prefer to conduct in branch, but [...]
Fri Feb, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
Google has made a change to its algorithm to limit content farms in search results. Google has not released any specifics about the changes, just its overall goal. Google has said, however, the change will affect the rankings of many web sites. Google considers as Content Farms those sites offering low quality content to the [...]
Fri Feb, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
A new report by eMarketer claims to be the most accurate yet of Facebook usage. Taken from meta-level analysis of surveys and statistics from over a dozen sources, eMarketer claims FB will reach 132.5 million people this year. That number is of unique people who log into their FB account at least once per month. [...]
Fri Feb, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
Project Devil is AOL’s attempt to resize the advertisements it displays on its network. The ads are now larger and there will be less of them on the page. This is part of an attempt to “remake the internet”. Over the past year AOL has ended most of the banner and smaller boxes. Those ads [...]
Wed Feb, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
A new report by Yudu shows the iPad is the best platform if you are interested in selling something. Theoretically this makes sense among the other mobile platforms out there. People who have smartphones may have them mainly for phone and texting services. While there is an opportunity for them to purchase applications, it is [...]
Wed Feb, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
Richard Branson is looking to expand the Virgin empire into the daily deals space established and dominated by Groupon. It is not yet certain as Branson is searching for some additional and external funding. While the field may seem saturated with competitors (Google’s initiative, LivingSocial, as well as a supposed Yahoo entrant as well) the [...]
Tue Feb, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
While this issue is not yet part of the digital marketer’s arsenal it soon will be. Both Microsoft’s XBox 360 and Sony’s Playstation 3 have a kinetic control device. These devices, while initially limited to interaction with games, are being hacked by enthusiasts and creative minds. Sony has decided to sue these people and Microsoft [...]
Tue Feb, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
Hotmail had been missing a cool factor Gmail did have: chat. However, instead of just implementing a chat feature, Hotmail integrated it with Facebook’s chat. Now someone logged onto FB’s chat feature can chat seamlessly with someone on a Hotmail chat feature. Since announcing this change, even before worldwide availability, 2.5 million people connected their [...]