October 30th Published by: Mike Sachoff Filed under: Social Networking
More major financial service companies are embracing social media according to a new report from market research firm, Corporate Insight.
The report found that 15 percent of the firms have added significant social media features to their online platforms in 2008, and 70 percent have developed online communities.
“Two years ago, very few financial services companies [...]
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October 22nd Published by: Mike Sachoff Filed under: Miscellaneous
The Internet and cell phones have become a central part of modern family life. Among all household types, the traditional nuclear family has the highest rate of technology usage and ownership according to a new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
The majority (89%) of married-with children households own multiple cell phones, and [...]
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October 17th Published by: Mike Sachoff Filed under: Miscellaneous
Google accounted for 71.16 percent of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ending September 27, 2008, according to Hitwise.
Google increased its percentage of the search market 7.61 percent over its September percentage of 63.55 percent and was up slightly over August 2008 by 0.15 percent.
Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 18.06 percent, [...]
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October 10th Published by: Mike Sachoff Filed under: Social Networking
MySpace and HP have announced plans to integrate HP printing technology across multiple areas on MySpace, including all photo sections.
The partnership is an effort to improve the MySpace experience and allow users to print the photo sections, personal profile, blog entries, comments and messages from their profiles and share them offline.
“Sharing and storing photos online [...]
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October 3rd Published by: Mike Sachoff Filed under: Social Networking
Ad- supported social networks will make up most of the revenues in the mobile user-generated content (UGC) space by 2013, according to a new report from Juniper Research.
The report says that the total value of the UGC market, consisting of social networking, dating and personal content delivery (PCD) services will increase from $1.1 billion in [...]
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