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…
Some statistics around Australian use of social networks such as MySpace Facebook Twitter and other social media sites in June 2009.
Head of MI6 has fotos placed on Facebook by social networking wife. Social media guidelines for staff do not always extend to family…
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 million loss in 1997…
Some random stuff: | View | Upload your own 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…
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…
Business Week always writes such interesting articles: Social Media Will Change Your Business Look past the yakkers, hobbyists, and political mobs. Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out. Our advice: Catch up…or catch you later That month, May 2005, is when NeoPets was sold to Viacom/Nickleodeon, 70 million kids online, more stickability than Facebook….
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…
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,…