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 [...]
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 [...]
News Blaze recently reported a new social platform for artists and art lovers called TheArtistFinder.com.
TheArtistFinder.com, as the name implies, is a site where you can browse at the work of artists worldwide, click on the artist whose work catches your eye, and get information (links to sites) on where you can buy that artist’s [...]
Last time I warned about being selective of what you post on your social media account for your career’s sake but now an even more pressing reason to be careful about what you post online has emerged – safety. According to a report from Legal and General there is no doubt that criminals (especially burglars) [...]
The popularity of social media is obvious but according to the Consumer Internet Barometer, a quarterly survey of 10,000 households, the pace at which it is gaining popularity is explosive. Recent result have shown that the number of people who go online that use social media sites has almost doubled (43%) compared to last year [...]
The internet’s all abuzz at the latest Twitter security breach. Apparently though the security breach does not affect the actual Twitter accounts of Twitter users but instead affects other online accounts (Paypal, Gmail, Amazon, etc.) of Twitter employees. According to Ev William’s email to Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch the hacker, who’s using the alias Hacker [...]
Think social media is just for big businesses? Of course, it’s not. As can be attested by two young freshmen from University of Chicago, Alex Aciman and Emmett Rensin, with one great idea and just one social media platform, Twitter in their case, you can not only do something really cool but even get sure [...]
UberCEO reported the other day that CEOs of top companies don’t seem to be interested in social media. They gathered data about this year’s Fortune 100 CEO and came up with the following results:
Only two CEOs have Twitter accounts.
13 CEOs have LinkedIn profiles, and of those only three have more than 10 connections.
81% of [...]
Google is making waves again, that is Google Wave. Google wave is getting rave reviews from all over and is obviously something that will be changing the way we communicate online. The team that came up with Wave, headed by the Rasmussen brothers, designed Wave with one thought in mind – how email would look [...]
