During last year, social networks became a key channel for influencing and establishing a two ways communication between brands and consumers. Many companies tried to adapt themselves to this media paradigm shift by positioning their brand in the social graph.
Do you tweet while driving? Do you update your Facebook status at work or during vacation? Have you ever wonder how much time people spend on social networking activities like updating status, checking in on Facebook or posting a tweet on Twitter?
A recent study from Retrevo.com, a consumer electronics shopping site, tried to find the answers on how much control people have over their social media life.
Is clear that the decade 2000-2010 made profound changes in all levels of our lifes. From the way we communicate, interact, socialize, entertain to new paradigms settled in many industries, I think is a good time to stop and think about the biggest losers during the last ten years.
2009 will be remembered as the year of social media growth. Recently, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social network had reached more than 350 Million users. Facebook is not alone, phenomenon like Twitter, Youtube, Linkedin among others have established as a key media component in our daily life.
Taking in consideration the value social networking add to business, entertainment, lifestyle and communication areas: Are users willing to pay to stay connected with friends on sites like Facebook or MySpace? And if they don’t want to pay for any of it, what would they be willing to “give away” in order to keep these sites free?
According to a very close source to the microblogging company, Twitter will get 25 millions dollars due to their search agreements with Google and Microsoft. These revenues would be enough for Twitter to break even before end of this year according to the same source.
Predicting the future is always a rather challenging task. There is one thing about predicting the future….it is so hard to predict.
Mike Elgan makes a great top ten list with the worst predictions by technology pundits for this 2009. Most of them where too vague considering the existing trends happening at the end of this year.
Check the top ten list below
2009 was the year when social media became a mainstream media creating a paradigm shift on digital marketing opportunities, strategies and budget.
We can expect that 2010 will deepen this media shift as the hype dissipates from Social media marketing efforts like Facebook fan pages, Twitter campaigns and other superficial attempts for bringing a more honest community factor to brands and organizations.
This are my 5 likely truths for 2010 when it comes to social networking
Great work done by Flaptor on analyzing 400 Millions tweets using Trendistic in order to rank the top 20 Twitter trending topics for 2009. The ranking is based on the percentage of Tweets who mentioned a specific topic or event during a particular day.
Take a look to the Top 10 list below
Making a list of exciting Iphone applications is always a task, moreover when you have more than 100.000 applications available. Nevertheless, I choose 10 applications that are extremely useful for your daily life and you shouldn’t miss.
Pingdom released a new study showing the ratio between men and women on top 19 social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter, Slashdot, Reddit, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, FriendFeed, Last.fm, Friendster, LiveJournal, Hi5, Imeem, Ning, Xanga, Classmates.com and Bebo.
The research reveals that women rules the social networking space with a higher proportion of users in most of the sites.
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