On Wednesday Jan. 18th thousands of sites will go dark to protest SOPA & PIPA, two US bills racing through Congress that threaten prosperity, online security, and freedom of expression. PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet Biden on Internet Freedom = Anti-SOPA
This is another interesting infographic, this time around how mobile is shaping the way social media is consumed. It’s interesting to see that from these stats, 25% or more than 100 million facebook users access from a mobile phone, and those who do, are twice as active on social networks compared to people accessing from a computer! The 35-54 year…
Google.com has introduced adverts for daily deals to its searchers. This service is called “Google Offers“. It’s currently in beta thefore its only available for 42 cities in United States but they do plan to expanding to the UK late 2012. What is Google Offers? Google Offers is a deal-of-the-day website that will be localized to major geographic markets in the…
Microsoft Tag has just released a infographic highlighting statistics on how people are using mobile phones in 2011. The infographic shows that In 2014, mobile internet usage will overtake desktop internet usage and already in 2011, more than 50% of all “local” searches are done from a mobile device. Plus over 1 billion of the worlds 4+ billion mobiles phones are…
Is social media marketing effective? That’s the question being asked as more and more businesses are investing in increasing amounts of social media marketing. With no standard means of measurement, there’s a wide variety of goals and metrics used to define the ROI of social strategies. Fortunately, this enlightening infographic, developed by MDG Advertising, helps clear up the confusion by…
Google+ is growing a lot now that it’s open to the public. It’s worth noting, but there is a much bigger picture in the social media competition conversation than Facebook users vs. Google+ users. In Bradley Horowitz’s own words, “Google+ is Google itself. We’re extending it across all that we do—search, ads, Chrome, Android, Maps, YouTube—so that each of those…
An infographic showing what happens online in 60 seconds. I have pulled out a few key stats: 695,000+ Facebook status updates. 98,000+ Tweets. 1,500+ Blog Posts. 20,000 New posts on Tumblr. 600+ New Videos on YouTube.
Everyone knows the growth of social media has been huge over the last 4 or 5 years, but what about in the last 12 months from 2010 – 2011? I have pulled out a few key statistics from the infographic: If Facebook were a country, it would be the world’s third largest country (about two times the size of the…
PayPal has just released a video depicting what the future of shopping might look like with the introduction of PayPal’s next generation payment platforms, as they aim to re-imagine money. It includes everything from person to person “bump” payments and transfers, location based offers that instantly transfer real dollars to your PayPal account for use in a certain store, barcode…
