I stumbled upon (not via StumbleUpon by the way) the image below and thought it would be nice just to post something really light. Notice something missing? Might be my eyes but is Twitter not there? This might be an old sketch though specially since Facebook country is also given a pretty small land area. [...]
Google is definitely not content with being the leader in the search industry but is bent on making an impact on the social media industry as well. They have Open Social, Real time search, and Social search … and now they have Buzz.
Buzz was launched just last February 9 but the Buzz section of my [...]
If you have any doubts that the social media wave is here to stay then maybe Nielsen’s latest findings will make you a believer.
According to the Nielsen Company recent studies show that the time spent by people from U.S., U.K., Australia, Brazil, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain and Italy in social media sites have gone [...]
When I wrote my post, “Feeding the World Through Social Media”, just several weeks ago little did I know just how much more relevant it will be today.
The news is plastered with everything that’s been happening in Haiti and while it’s been shocking, sad, and tragic the support and goodwill that people from all [...]
I’ve been trying to write here for a couple of hours now but was distracted by the repetitive Christmas music drifting in from outside. Luckily they played the song “feed the world…don’t they know it’s Christmas time…feed the world…” I don’t know the title of the song and have no plans of Googling it up. [...]
Scott Monty, Ford Motor’s social media head, recently wrote an article that reminded me how easy it is to get tunnel vision. Admittedly, I focus all my energies on the “most popular” social media sites namely: Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Bebo. I dabble with other social media sites (who doesn’t watch YouTube?) but lately these [...]
According to the Strait Times a survey of 100 small and medium enterprise businesses from 5 countries in Asia showed that 72% of the businesses use social media platforms like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.
Facebook is in the lead among the social media platforms with 79% of the business users citing Facebook to be at [...]
Though metrics for evaluating the effect of social to businesses are still questionable, businesses everywhere are hopping onto the social media bandwagon. As we all know though if everyone’s starting to pay attention, though we don’t have neat round figures to prove that something is good or beneficial, then something must be right about that [...]
Google launched its Social Media Search last Monday. The social search engine is still in its experimental stage but it is already available for everyone. Below is a video of the search demonstration.
Here are some of the features of Google Social Search listed on their help page:
1. Finding relevant public content from your [...]
We know how mundane Twitterers’ updates can be but I never really realized just how boring most people’s update have are.
A recent study conducted by the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology revealed that the top five most frequent postings include the words “working,” “home,” “work,” “lunch,” and “sleeping”. According to the study the reason [...]
