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Malaysia: Social Media and Facebook numbers

by Laurel Papworth on September 19, 2009 · 20 comments

There’s a great article in The Star (Malaysia) by David Gibson of Inter-Asia.
Malaysian Internet users like Facebook, Myspace, and Friendster. They’re also connecting via Twitter, LindedIn and Plaxo, and eBlogger.
They use resources such as Slideshare, iTunes, Flickr, and YouTube. 
Nine of the Top 20 websites in Malaysia are social networking sites, and the top 6 [...]

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Australia: Twitter 800k of users in June

by Laurel Papworth on August 19, 2009 · 0 comments

Some statistics around Australian use of social networks such as MySpace Facebook Twitter and other social media sites in June 2009.

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Facebook: MI6 wife’s photos

by Laurel Papworth on July 7, 2009 · 3 comments

Head of MI6 has fotos placed on Facebook by social networking wife. Social media guidelines for staff do not always extend to family…

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Social Networks and Economic Downturn

by Laurel Papworth on October 12, 2008 · 3 comments

Following on from my The Coming Tech Bust post:

Amid a downturn, another Internet company’s initial offering catches fire

Article Abstract:
Geocities’ stock price surged in its initial public offering, which also continued investor appetites for Internet company debuts. The virtual community raised its value to $1.1 billion despite its $5 [...]

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Australia etc: Social network Social media statistics

by Laurel Papworth on May 1, 2008 · 0 comments

Some random stuff:

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Thanks TechCrunch!
Then Australian Internet Usage (mentioned before, announced at ad:tech sydney):
AUSSIE INTERNET USAGE OVERTAKES TV VIEWING FOR THE FIRST TIME- Australian consumers approaching point of media ‘saturation’- Aussies clocking up over 84 hours per week in media usage Sydney, 18 March 2008— The amount of time Australians [...]

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Australians DO Blog – number of Australian bloggers

by Laurel Papworth on February 26, 2008 · 8 comments

I’ve felt a bit like a voice in the wilderness, claiming Australians blog, we just don’t do it in a centralised, countable way (Blogger and Wordpress are overseas sites). Certainly there have been some PR and media bloggers who say that Australians don’t blog or engage in User Generated Content (Consumer Generated Media). They were [...]

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Hit wise: Online Dating (Singapore)

by Laurel Papworth on February 8, 2008 · 5 comments

I like the Hitwise email newsletter:
Need a Date?For the week ending 02/02/2008, Singaporean Internet users spent an average visit time of 17 minutes and 44 seconds on Lifestyle – Dating websites. 74% of the total traffic to the Lifestyle – Dating industry for that week was directed to international dating websites such as Adult Friendfinder.com [...]

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Consumer Economy: Play word games, donate rice.

by Laurel Papworth on November 21, 2007 · 1 comment

Bumpz0red because I added in the stats from Hitwise.For each word you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger.Freerice needs to have a much better backstory/about section than this (is it really for the UN?):

FreeRice is a sister site of the world poverty site, [...]

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Virtual communities as good as the real thing

by Laurel Papworth on December 1, 2006 · 0 comments

From VNUNet:

More than a third of Americans believe that the virtual worlds they visit online are as important as their dealings in the real world, according to a study.
Forty-three per cent of internet users who are members of online communities say they “feel as strongly” about their virtual community as they do about their real [...]

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Baidu versus Google

by Laurel Papworth on September 17, 2006 · 0 comments

Snippets from New York Times’ David Barboza article, courtesy of The Ledger Online:

Today, Baidu has a market value of $3 billion and operates the fourth-most trafficked Web site in the world. And Baidu is doing what no other Internet company has been able to do: clobbering Google and Yahoo in its home market.
But Baidus evolution, [...]

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Spanish VOIP

by Laurel Papworth on December 6, 2005 · 2 comments

PeerMe announced today:Announcing the availability of the Spanish version, Tom Lasater, founder and CEO of PeerMe said “With the availability of the Spanish version of PeerMe, we can now supply three out of four of all world-wide internet users with free PC to PC calling and instant messaging services.” “Similar to the impact of mobile [...]

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