Will Google+ Replace Facebook as the King of Social Media? [Plus Infographic]
Tweet Nothing is forever and the rise of Google plus begs the question “When will Facebook be dethroned? ” MySpace lasted 5 years as the king of social networks until 2007 after launching in 2002. Smart business heads such as Rupert Murdoch paid over a half a billion dollars for direct ownership, betting on the [...]
The Latest 15 Facts and Figures on Facebook – Plus Infographic
Tweet Facebook continues to turn the web upside down as the third phase of the web continues to mature. The first phase of he web started with portals such as Yahoo and AOL, providing sources of information from news to mega categories of information. The reason this ocurred was that search engine technology was so [...]
What are the 10 Top Social Networks for Marketing?
Tweet So you are the new marketing manager for an organisation with a 100 employees and you are planning your social media marketing strategy for the next 12 months. If you are a follow the crowd type of marketer and want to play it safe then the decision of which social media networks to deliver [...]
Google+ Hits 25 Million Users in Less than One Month
Tweet Records were made to be broken. The Guinness World Records publishes an annual bible documenting all sorts of amazing feats from the fastest pie eater in the world to the quickest man on a bike. They even published a recent article on their website highlighting 10 social media world records These included The fastest [...]
Insights into Google’s New Google+ Social Network
Tweet Evolution is about winners and losers and survival of the fittest. The origin of any species, digital or flesh and blood depends on the ability to adapt to rapidly changing environments. If you want to see it happening in real time you only have to survey the digital world to view it happening before [...]
Potential Facebook Competitor That Offers Privacy and Control
Tweet If there was a social network that functioned like Facebook but boasted more privacy, would you make the switch? Dmitry Shapiro sure hopes you would. The former Myspace Music CTO recently rubbed elbows with investors like Draper Fisher Jurvetson in order to put wheels on the project he, for the moment, calls Altly. What [...]
50 Awesome YouTube Facts and Figures
Tweet YouTube is a modern phenomena. The social media platform’s original concept is rumoured to have been inspired by the idea of being a video dating site with the unlikely title of “Tune In Hook Up”. In the end it launched as a simple video sharing site that has helped reinvent the web from a [...]
Who Are The 3 Biggest Losers Of Social Media?
Tweet Facebook has become the biggest party pooper since the term “social media” was invented with it’s success sucking the oxygen out of the air for most of the second tier social networking platforms. Social networking emerged in 2002 as a phenomenon with the creation and meteoric rise of Friendster which was quickly mimicked by [...]
How To Connect 100 Million Facebook Fans
Tweet Traditional marketing is still a powerful marketing medium and email is still one of the best ways to get someones attention. The challenge for email is that it is much harder for it to be shared compared to new emerging low friction social marketing channels such as Facebook and Twitter. Many well optimized blogs [...]
5 Insights On The Future Of Social Media
Tweet It is a very sad fact about our world that it is most often through conflict and disaster that we discover the most about ourselves and our connections to others. I have felt this palpably in recent months and years as I’ve watched the ebb and flow of so many conversations, about things both mundane [...]
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