Since some weeks ago, the music industry looks quite busy due to Christmas single charts competition. In UK, for the last four years the Christmas number one position in the UK Singles Chart has been occupied by the winner of The X Factor TV show. But this year things were different for the successful talent hunting show.
But once again, social networking managed to change the rules of the game in the music industry and driven by thousands of downloads and Facebook group campaigning “Killing in the name” reached number one UK single chart list again.
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According to Reuters, Telefonica just bought Jajah, the VOIP service provider, for 200 Millions dollars. Jajah currently has around 15 million subscribers that can make cheaper phone calls on their landline and mobile phones via its site. There are seven key points for understanding Telefonica´s strategic move.
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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
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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
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Google has been working hard on giving a lift to Google Chrome platform. Even do still there is a long way to go, during the last two week some interesting developments put additional hope on Chrome’s future. For instance they launched a Beta version for Mac and Linux and also a extensions gallery from where you can upload and download a growing number of applications.
The current gallery is extremely simple, but you can get a good feeling on the top applications downloaded by users. And based on that ranking, I would like to share the top 10 extensions for Google Chrome.
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Generation 2020 (by some analysts a segment born around 2000 and graduating from high school by 2020) is the latest generation made up of today’s kids and youth. Gen 2020 will face a very complex world but they are more conscious about it than any other generation before
Social researchers have studied and debate deeply about gen Y or digital natives (segment between 15-30 years) and their rapid embrace of digital technology. Neverthless, generation 2020 is the first group born into a full digital world. It’s like comparing learning a language in school with being a native speaker.
This generation is not currently part of the workforce but within a decade they will comprise 10%-15% of the workforce and and by 2025 they will be the largest generation at work.
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Some few weeks back my mother, which is 70 years old, started her own Facebook account. As a new social media user it took her sometime before she really understood the concept of social networks, but after three weeks she started uploading pictures, tagging people, commenting on walls (sometimes without distinguishing between walls and direct messages) and increasing her network by adding all our extended family.
Maybe this is good reflection on how Social media sites are becoming a mainstream channel for communication. And in the case of Facebook, it looks like its attracting a bigger amount of old users meanwhile younger users are focusing more on microblogging.
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Social networking and blog sites accounted for 17% of all internet activity worldwide during last August. This means that every one out of six minutes online is devoted to social media activities according to Nielsen Company.
The popularity of sites like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, MySpace is four times higher than 2005. On September 2009, Facebook reached 300 Millions users and also increased their user time spent on the site in more than 83% compared to last year.
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Youtube, Twitter and Wikipedia are three emblematic services that attract hundreds of Millions Visitors every month. Their current company value is skyrocketing, but ¿Are these companies making big money for their owners?
Today’s missing piece of Web 2.0 can be summarized in one sentence: “Show me the money “.
No one has figured out how anyone could be willing to pay for the kind of services we are enjoying today and how to create a sustainable business model that could bridge the gap between value generation ( the relevance of these applications for users) and value creation (monetization).
In this article we explore the cases of these three companies
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LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional social network with over 40 million members and growing rapidly. Is great place for connecting you to your trusted contacts and helping to exchange knowledge, ideas, and opportunities with a broader network of professionals.
One of the great benefits about LinkedIn is the ability to get visibility from other professionals or business partners and therefore create new opportunities for your business without investing much.
I would like to share 8 ways for using Linkedin as a business development tool for your business.
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