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Users Over 55 Quitting Facebook: The Baby Boom Times Over?

Via Mashable by Josh Catone According to new data from Inside Facebook, users over the age of 55 haven’t been as actively using Facebook over the past two months after triple digit growth in that demographic earlier this year. The … Continue reading

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Boring Holidays = Social Networking Extravaganza

Via Mashable December 30, 2008 – 4:16 pm PDT – by Adam Ostrow There are a lot of reasons that social networks experience a bump in traffic during the holidays. For one, lots of people are off from work or … Continue reading

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Pew survey shows online news overtaking print in the US

Via ARS Technica By John Timmer | Published: December 28, 2008 – 09:10PM CT People who have followed the development of the Internet are probably well aware of the Pew Charitable Trust, which has tracked the growth of the web … Continue reading

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Facebook Is Gaining Ground On Google In Time Spent On The Internet

Via Tech Crunch by Erick Schonfeld on December 18, 2008 Facebook long ago passed MySpace in global visitors and time spent on the site, but now it appears to be gaining ground on Google. A couple days ago, Facebook released … Continue reading

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Is RSS adoption peaking?

Via Bogging Me Blogging You By Ed Lee On Monday, technology analyst house Forrester released a report that demonstrated consumer adoption of RSS had reached 11 per cent (versus almost 50 per cent of interactive marketers) and wonders: “What’s holding … Continue reading

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ComScore: YouTube Now 25 Percent Of All Google Searches

Via Tech Crunch by Erick Schonfeld on December 18, 2008 Video search on YouTube accounts for a quarter of all Google search queries in the U.S., according to the latest search engine numbers from comScore. Its monthly qSearch report, which … Continue reading

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Just How Stupid And Poor Are MySpace Users, Exactly?

Via Tech Crunch by Michael Arrington on December 1, 2008 If you thought Randall Stross’ attack on Tesla yesterday was in poor taste, wait until you read what Michael Wolff has to say about MySpace. In a dinner interview with … Continue reading

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Maybe Canadians Have More Friends

Via the New York Times By ALEX MINDLIN Published: November 30, 2008 Canadian Internet users are far more likely than Americans to use a social networking Web site, according to September figures released by the research firm comScore. That number … Continue reading

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Reconciling Social Technographics and 90-9-1

Via Groundswell by Josh Bernoff Forrester’s Social Technographics surveys show that when it comes to social content 21% of online US consumers are Creators, 37% are Critics (those who react to content created by others), and 69% are Spectators. The … Continue reading

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IAB Reports U.S. Online Advertising Almost $5.9 Billion In The Third Quarter

Via Tech Crunch by Erick Schonfeld on November 20, 2008 The Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers just released their quarterly report on U.S. online advertising revenues. For the quarter, they estimate online advertising revenues were almost $5.9 billion ($5.865 billion, … Continue reading

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