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Social Media Yearbook, 2011 Infographic Edition
Infographics: the web’s unique way of defining our tech-heavy times, destroying our productivity levels, and giving us the giggles. Flowtown has a fun new highschool-themed shakedown of today’s social media giants. Where do you fit into the 2011 yearbook? Do note the omission of any gaming networks (i.e. Apple’s Game Center, OpenFeint or Xbox LIVE), [...]
Continue reading...How Generations Are Using Social Media
Saturday, May 22, 2010
A new chart has been released showing how different generations are using social media. First, the graphic: Now, a lot of this seems to be not all that surprising, such as the older you get, the less likely you are to participate in social media. After all, most senior citizens probably would freely admit that [...]
Continue reading...Facebook Traffic Up 69%, Twitter Up 45%
Friday, May 7, 2010
Social networking in general grew 100% last year in a report from media data service Nielsen. Facebook and Twitter are still leading the pack with each gaining enormous amounts of users and internet traffic over the past year. Facebook saw the largest growth with 69% which could largely be attributed to the launching of several [...]
Continue reading...College Students Can’t Make it Without their Media
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
While not an official psychiatric disorder, many college students suffer from internet and media addiction. According to a study conducted by the University of Maryland, students that gave up their media connections had withdrawal symptoms similar to those of a drug or alcohol addict. They also experienced craving, anxiety and preoccupation which made it difficult [...]
Continue reading...7 Ways Console Game Developers Could Be More Social
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Many developers are moving into the social direction with increasing integration into services such as Xbox Live, PSN, Steam and the like. However, few are interacting with the social networking world that exists outside the console like Facebook and Twitter. Currently, Xbox Live features Twitter and Facebook as parts of their Xbox Live Gold Subscription [...]
Continue reading...Social Media Continues to Pick Up Steam
Saturday, April 17, 2010
According to new research released by Nielsen Online, social media is continuing its rapid rise in use and reach. Nielsen surveyed 1,700 online users and found that 73 percent of those respondents engaged in some form of social media at least once at week. Of course, considering that the survey was held online, the numbers [...]
Continue reading...Tomorrow is April 16th aka Foursquare Day
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Tomorrow, April 16th is officially “Foursquare Day” a holiday that comes from the social media company that wants you to check-in as much as possible. What does the holiday mean for us Foursquare users? Well, a special badge of course! Check-in to any venue tomorrow and you will have a special badge in your profile. [...]
Continue reading...I Got 99 Problems But Social Media Ain’t One
Saturday, April 10, 2010
We all love social media here at Frisky Mongoose, and social media consultant Mirna Bard has collected (via WebNewser) some of her favorite social media quotes–99 of them, in fact. Some choice quotes: “Don’t say anything online that you wouldn’t want plastered on a billboard with your face on it.” – Erin Bury, Sprouter community [...]
Continue reading...Founders of MySpace Acquiring MindJolt
Friday, March 5, 2010
The founders of MySpace have decided to once again return to the social market but this time with a gaming twist. Chris DeWolfe, Colin Digiaro and Aber Whitcomb along with Austin Ventures have acquired MindJolt which is a social gaming powerhouse with over 20 million unique players on Facebook among other sites. The model in [...]
Continue reading...Blindfolded Man Finishes The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time Using Skype
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Social gaming and networking have been showing dominance with communication, sharing and competition, but rarely do we see a group of people team up to collectively prove a point or for a cause. Jordan Verner from Ontario Canada was told at a young age that he would go blind. Despite that actually not happening, he [...]
Continue reading...Most People get their News from Social Networks
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
As reported by Mashable, Pew Internet has analyzed the consumer habits of Americans which includes how they find out about news. The study conducted had a sample of 2,259 adults and found that 75% of the participants found their news through email or social networking sites. 52% of the participants forwarded the news on as [...]
Continue reading...A List of 20 Interesting Internet Statistics
Monday, March 1, 2010
The group known as JESS3 have created a new video about the internet and its most popular web destinations. As originally posted by SocialTimes, the statistics show some very interesting points about how social media has not only affected the internet, but the entire world. As shown in the video: There are 1.73 billion of [...]
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