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Yearly Archives: 2010
65 percent of web users have paid for digital content
A recent study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project has revealed that 65% of internet users have paid to access or download some kind of digital content – music and software being the most common kinds of content purchased. The company surveyed 755 internet users who were asked about 15 different kinds of online material that could be purchased or access after a payment. As explained in the…
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Get ‘that’ cool new Facebook profile picture that everyone’s talking about
Facebook recently rolled out its new, streamlined, more ‘visual’ profiles. The new profile layout has caught the imagination of many users who have taken advantage of the new photostream feature at the top of the profile page. You may have seen some interesting examples pop up on your friends’ pages – this sort of thing; Achieving this look is a pretty complicated procedure that requires a degree of Photoshop knowledge…
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Android Market reaches the 200k app milestone
Little over over two months ago the Android Market surpassed 100,000 apps, and now according to AndroLib, the store has broken the 200,000 app benchmark. (Please not that this information is “estimated”) Google’s Android app store took almost two years to reach 100,000 apps, but just 63 days to double that number. Much of this growth can be attributed to the Android Market expanding it’s offering to over 20 countries….
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158 items sold per second by Amazon on “Cyber Monday”
Amazon has announced that on its peak day for 2010, November 29, customers ordered more than 13.7 million items worldwide. This translates to 158 items per second, a self-proclaimed record-breaking sum. In the US, November 29 is known as '”Cyber Monday” – the Monday that followed “Black Friday”. The best sellers on Amazon this holiday season were the Kindle Wi-Fi and Kindle 3G. The third-generation Kindle is now the best…
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Foursquare announces new features
Just in time for the Christmas holidays, geolocation giant Foursquare has rolled out some new features. Due to popular user demand, Foursquare has announced the addition of photos and comments to the service, making it “more useful and social”. These new features are available on the updated iPhone app and on foursquare.com Users will notice the following features immediately; “Comments make meeting up and exploring so much easier. Improve your…
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Facebook vs. Twitter – 2010 demographics breakdown
We’re fast approaching the end of 2010 and what a year it’s been for social media. Facebook and Twitter particularly. Online marketing agency Digital Surgeons has put together a nice little infographic highlighting the breakdown of the 2010 demographics on Facebook and Twitter. The infographic provides some interesting insights. Here are a few key points; Users are more willing to follow brands on Facebook than on Twitter More than half…
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Most viral brands of 2010
It’s been a big year for brands going viral. Two campaigns that stand out to us straight away are the ‘Old Spice Questions’ from Old Spice and ‘A Hunter Shoots a Bear’ by Tipp-Ex – both fantastic campaigns that captured the imagination of millions. If you haven’t yet experienced the latter, we thoroughly recommend you do so, it’s brilliant. The good people of Rubber Republic’s Viral Ad Network have gone…
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It may be Christmas, but don’t neglect social media
In the words of Andy Williams, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year”. There will indeed be “parties for hosting” and “marshmallows for toasting” but there’s also blogs to be blogged and tweets to be tweeted. There's a temptation to slow down social media efforts over the Christmas period, but don’t make that mistake, because for many businesses it’s one of the most important times of year. There are…
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Facebook uses facial recognition technology for new photo tagging feature
Another day, another advance in Facebook technology. Today Mashable brings news that Facebook is due to give its photos feature a big upgrade with a new feature that automatically suggests who users should tag in photos based on facial recognition technology. The feature is called ‘Tag Suggestions’ and Facebook says it works like this… “When you or a friend upload new photos, we use face recognition software—similar to that found…
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Top UK Facebook status trends of 2010
Yesterday, we posted a list of the global top ten Facebook status trends of 2010. ‘HMU’ (hit me up) was the top trend with ‘World Cup’ ’ Bieber’, ‘Haiti’ and ‘Apple’ making appearances too. In this period of year-end statistics, we were interested to see what our fellow UK ‘Facebookers’ have been talking about over the last 12 months. It’s been a big year for news – BP oil spill,…
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