Click here for data from ComScore. Great insights about the market place.Email and instant messaging are in rapid decline because of texting and Facebook messaging and news feeds.
Some new entrants ala Pininterest are booming!
I am pleased to say that SnagFilms is positioned at the intersection of video and sharing; watch a film; snag it – share it and embed it and stream it to your friends today. Thank you.
This chart shows that Facebook will hit ONE BILLION users in late summer of this year. A fantastic milestone.
Google and all of it sites are at ONE BILLION users.
Clearspring Technologies and its Add This button actually has a BILLION users per month as well. Click here.
There are about 2.5 billion users connected to the Internet around the world now.
The third screen – mobile – wireless is powering almost all of the growth.
We live our lives on the net; Facebook is the new oxygen – the world is breathing it in and “likes” it.
This is a good one to read – as you get more and more social.
Here is why you get into a network or get banished from a network. Thank you Mashable. This rings quite true to me.
On my blog – the comments platform is back on – and working; sorry for the inconvenience of late.Also – someone hacked my Thewashwiz@aol.com account – I am working through the issues. Stay tuned. Thank you.
Small Business Saturday is a coming again.
Saturday – November 26th.
Support your neighbor – go shopping and support a small business!
Do holiday shopping locally.
Stimulate your own local economy, I am very proud of American Express for being so seminal in this effort. Facebook is a big supporter. Groupon is too. Small Business – America’s lifeblood – the job creation engine for our country. Get involved – support your neighbor and small businesses. Read all about this effort here.
These infographics are so smart and so filled with great data.
Check this out and share it. Pay it forward. Thanks.
For a long time saying an eco system and platform was closed was bad.
It was sneered at as a “walled garden” and a “church.”
The world it was said wanted a “bazaar.” Open. Free. Bedlam. “Let a thousand flowers bloom.”
AOL back in the day was cursed for being “A Walled Garden.” I understand why.
I remember ads that ran on television by clients that said for more information go to AOL Keyword “company name” or www.companyname.com.
That was laughable. Every company demanded to brand its url. AOL was in the way.
Read this article about Apple and Steve Jobs by Esther Dyson. Closed. Why? Because Steve was the best?
I think Facebook is closed as well. Not open. I smile when I see clients running ads now that say “See us on Facebook.” And they don’t publish an url for their website.
The most valuable company in the world and the next great company and business. Closed.
Maybe conventional wisdom about closed vs. open isn’t correct?
Maybe value is driven by curation and uniformity and care?
Maybe closed is the new open?
Here is a link to the list of the Top 10 web brands as measured by engagement of audience. This data is from Nielsen as of July 2011.
AOL is still a Top 10 network of sites pulling in at # 7.
Google and Facebook rule as # 1 and # 2.
This list hasn’t changed much as to Top 10 participants in a long time. I thought this list would be of interest to you. Thank you.
Head spinning; breathless; pain; angst; anxiety; sadness.
Surgery; sling; recovery.
Georgetown vs. China. Men’s basketball and a brawl.
Earthquake. Aftershocks.
Son starts work.
Daughter back to college.
Hurricane.
Power loss.
HP exits tablet business.
Facebook exits daily deal business. Groupon shrugs.
Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple. Sad photos of him get distributed far and wide.
Former Wizards player is wanted for murder.
What is next? Locusts?
The Facebook messaging service aside the Facebook homepage reminds me of AOL circa 1994. Home page and Buddy List aside one another.
Content – community – communications – presence; all integrated.
Facebook messaging now looks like AIM to me, buddy lists with real time one click messaging opportunities embedded right next to content.Well done! I have my AOL client software open right now. Looks very similar to me.
Out with the old- in with the new. Recycle the old. Do it better and call it new.
What is next? “Welcome…you’ve got friends?”