While we are use to seeing the PC belittled in ads, Verizon is now taking aim at the iPhone, in a new campaign for their branded version of Android-based smart phones. The aptly named Droid is quick to highlight the many shortcomings of the iPhone and then churns out some nice typography through a science-fiction, [...]
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October 26th, 2009 | Tags: Advertising, android, Apple, bell, Google, iPhone, rogers, smart phones, Technology, telus | Category: Social media marketing | 4 comments
Bing’s usage during the month of September dropped off 5% even with the ‘decision engine’s’ advertising success and some gradual growth during the summer. Bing’s market share, the obvious statistic of choice, declined from 9.48% to 8.96%. The leader, Google, increased their share from 70.24% to 71.08% in America. Yahoo Search experienced a 3% decline, [...] October 9th, 2009 | Tags: bing, Facebook, facts and figures, Google, Real time search, search engine, Twitter, Yahoo | Category: Social media marketing | Leave a comment
Google acquiring reCAPTCHA was probably my favorite story last week. Mostly because I am amazed at the sounds that come out of the speaker button when you press it on the reCAPTCHA window. reCAPTCHA has a great motto though: “Stop spam. Read books.” Considering Google is in the process of digitizing hundreds of thousands of [...] September 21st, 2009 | Tags: Acquisitions, Google, reCAPTCHA | Category: Social media marketing | Leave a comment
The only way I could pry myself away from the random statistic button on the new Google UK Internet Statistics is if they made a North American equivalent. This immense collection of data comes from research firms such as Comscore, Nielson, Forrester and Hitwise and publications like BusinessWeek, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Financial [...] September 14th, 2009 | Tags: Facebook, Google, Privacy, Social media statistics, ToS, Twitter | Category: Social media marketing | Leave a comment
Facebook mobile has reached a total of 65 million users according to the Facebook Blog. With such a massive audience, detached from their desktop, Facebook is in an enviable position to introduce Facebook Connect into a whole host of other mobile internet features. It is important to note the level of dedication it took for [...] September 8th, 2009 | Tags: Google, Real time search, Social media statistics, Wordpress | Category: Social media marketing | Leave a comment
Whole Foods is suffering some serious setbacks, faltering heavily after an opinion piece that ran in the Wall Street Journal by their CEO, John Mackey, about health care reform. Once considered a pinnacle of industry in terms of their social media strategy, with 1.2 million followers on Twitter and 100,000 fans on Facebook, Whole Foods [...] August 25th, 2009 | Tags: Anonymity, Apple, Auto industry, Craigslist, Crisis management, Facebook, Google, iLike, iPhone, MySpace, Privacy, Social media strategies, Spotify, Technology, Twitter | Category: Social media marketing | Leave a comment
Interesting visualization of three studies (conducted by Sysomos and Pear Analytics) that the Information is Beautiful blog released in an appealing way that really helps to understand a multitude of Twitter stats in a colorfully, fun way. Click the picture above to take a look at the rest of the stats. Google has been [...] August 20th, 2009 | Tags: Anonymity, Captchas, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Privacy, Social media statistics, Social media strategies, Sony, Technology, Twitter | Category: Social media marketing | Leave a comment
Google making efforts to become more sociable by implementing some social networking tools to their iGoogle personalized homepage platform. Users already have the ability take headlines of major news sites and blogs and add other gadgets in order to personalize their homepage. This will make Google a very well rounded service with many users probably [...] August 12th, 2009 | Tags: Google, Intern misadventures, Technology, Twitter trends | Category: Social media marketing | Leave a comment
Pretty sensational last few days with a pile of interesting news items, including FriendFeed being acquired by Facebook and subsequently used to make Facebook’s search real time. 300 million users real time events to search through, though I hope their input is as relevant as the much smaller Twitter user base who actually seems to [...] August 11th, 2009 | Tags: Advertising, FriendFeed, Google, Intern misadventures, Open Source, Real time search, Twitter | Category: Social media marketing | Leave a comment
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