You may have noticed that Facebook isn’t exactly my favorite social media network. There are 100 reasons not to like Facebook, but now I have another one. According to the Financial Times , Facebook traffic has just surpassed Google. Over the last year the company has seen phenomenal growth, especially among the baby boomer crowd. But as of this week it made up for a 7.07% of popularity compared ...
It’s hard to imagine a Web sans URL shortening services nowadays but you can rest assured that they’re here to stay – for better or worse. Question is: how do the likes of bit.ly, TinyURL and Goo.gl score in terms of speed and availability?
That’s exactly what Dutch startup WatchMouse sought to find out , by monitoring the performance and uptime for 14 popular URL shorteners for a whole month...
Bizony, mondták páran próféták, jönni fog, mert jönnie kell valaminek, aki meg fogja tudni szorítani a Google-t. A pillanat elérkezett, nagy időknek, izgalmas időknek vagyunk tanúi megint. A Facebook bizonyos mérőszámaiban már utol is érte az utolérhetetlent. Komoly kutatócégek is jelezték, hogy az oldalletöltések számában úgy látják, a Google már többször is alulmaradt. Az Alexa grafikonjain ...
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In another move signaling its increased focus on opening up data, Facebook is rolling out a set of enhancements to its search experience. The changes are focused on getting you to the relevant profile, page, group or event on Facebook before actually running a query. Previously, Facebook would auto-suggest existing connections, for example, if you’re my friend and started typing “Adam …” in th...
David A. Yovanno is the CEO of Gigya, Inc. , a leading social optimization platform for online business. He can be found on Twitter at @daveyovanno or e-mail dave(at)gigya(dot)com. Now that most social networks are supporting functionality on third party sites — via Facebook Connect , Sign in with Twitter , Yahoo! Open Strategy, MySpaceID, and other similar technologies — entertainment com...
I can’t see this on my own Facebook profile yet, but we’ve gotten a number of tips in our inbox in the past 10 minutes so it’s safe to assume it’s not a hoax or anything: Facebook appears to have started enabling users to generate custom two-dimensional QR codes .
From the looks of the screenshot embedded above, there are two types of QR codes: a personal barcode or a “status QR barcode”. Th...
Facebook Connect Vs Chatroulette, which kinda defeats the objects right?
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This afternoon, as most of you know, Ev Williams , CEO of Twitter sat down for a much-anticipated and heavily-attended keynote interview at the South By Southwest conference in Austin. After thousands of Twittering geeks and quasi-geeks alike had settled in to the packed exhibition hall and overflow rooms to hear the latest updates delivered straight from Twitter's leader, their excitement so...
Feature-length documentary film Earth Days will premiere on Facebook with a live video stream and a chat at 8 PM EST on April 11, more than a week before the over-the-air PBS television premiere at 9 PM EST on April 19. The film chronicles the history of Earth Day in the United States and investigates issues related to the today’s American environmentalism movement. It has been playing the fe...
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A few hours ago, Twitter CEO Evan Williams keynoted SXSW in an on-stage interview with Umair Haque of Havs Media Lab. During it, Mr. Williams announced the @Anywhere platform and answered Mr. Haque’s questions. While Mr. Haque did ask a lot of questions, some thought that he did not ask enough tough questions about the future of Twitter. Perhaps that’s why Twitter’s CEO decided to answer m...
Social networking has finally become something valuable for brick-and-mortar businesses. Smartphones and location-based social networks allow users to interact, share, meet up, and recommend places based on their physical coordinates. This real-world connection to social media can mean more foot traffic and profits for business owners. So-called “lo-so” networks like Foursquare , Loopt , and G...
Facebook.com was the most-visited web site in the U.S. last week, surpassing even Google.com. And this is not the first time it’s happened.
According to Experian Hitwise, Facebook.com received 7.07% of all internet visits during the week that ended on March 13th, with Google getting 7.03%.
This compares visits between the two home pages — Facebook.com and [...]
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According to Hitwise, Facebook is the largest single website in the United States garnering some 7.07% of all internet visits in the country. Yes, more than seven out of every one hundred total visits to any website in the US is now to Facebook. Google, you are number two. Facebook is a massive social behemoth around the world, but in its home market it has shown particular strength. The website...
New data released from analytics service Hitwise today names Facebook the largest website in the U.S. with 7.07% of all U.S. visits. Google is second at 7.03%. Yahoo Mail is third with 3.8% and Yahoo is fourth at 3.67% (if you combined both Yahoo properties, and I’m not sure why they don’t, Yahoo would be first). YouTube (a Google property) is fifst with 2.14%.
This is the first time Hitwise ha...