Posted on April 24th, 2008 by dhirender
Expecting to make a windfall from the country’s cellphone addiction, Twitter, the service that launched the micro-blogging movement, has launched an edition in Japanese - which in a first for Twitter will also carry advertisements.
Despite the site’s popularity in the United States, an estimated one-quarter of the people who accessed Twitter in February originated from […]
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Posted on April 24th, 2008 by dhirender
A recent survey found that 72.2% of the respondents use social media to research a company’s reputation for customer care before making a purchase, and 74% choose to do business with companies based on the customer care experiences shared by others online.
The survey also found that while 81% of the respondents feel that blogs, online […]
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Posted on April 20th, 2008 by dhirender
Even though a universal password is like a open sesame for cyber crooks to steal all of a person’s sensitive data, nearly half the Internet users queried in a new survey said they use just one password for all their online accounts.
At the same time, 88% of the 800 people interviewed in the U.S. and […]
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Posted on April 17th, 2008 by dhirender
An emphatic yes, by 25%, if you believe this article in Mint.
According to the article, there has been a sharp increase in women subscribers, especially from countries like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Nepal, apart from US, UK, UAE and European nations, for social networking sites.
Convincing women used to be a problem for […]
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Posted on April 16th, 2008 by dhirender
According to the February 2008 stats from the comScore Video Metrix, U.S. Internet users viewed more than 10 billion online videos during the month, representing a 3% gain versus January and a 66% gain versus February 2007. Google Sites once again ranked as the top U.S. video property with nearly 3.6 billion videos viewed (35.4% […]
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Posted on April 16th, 2008 by dhirender
A group at the University of California-Irvine decided to work on this rather intriguing question, approaching it from the perspective of human-computer interactions, where the humans involved were blog readers.
No doubt, blogging as a social phenomenon is significant, but studying it becomes a challenge because of the rather abstract nature of the blog itself, making […]
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Posted on April 14th, 2008 by dhirender
Mobile Internet devices and online communities are merging to a new kind of web diary: “micro-blogging,” where people fire off terse missives about what they are doing or thinking at any given moment.
The postings are bare-bones, on-the-go versions of online journals in which people share their lives and dreams — hence the name micro-blogging, says […]
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Posted on April 13th, 2008 by dhirender
While newspaper readers agree with editors on the basics of what makes good journalism, they but they are more apt to want looser rules for online conversations, according to the Online Journalism Credibility Study.
For instance, about 70% of editors surveyed said requiring commenters to disclose their identities would support good journalism, while only 45% of […]
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Posted on April 8th, 2008 by dhirender
According to blog search engine Technorati, there are over 112 million blogs in the blogosphere, a number that increases by over 175,000 blogs every day.
Around 1.6 million blog posts on almost every topic that you can imagine (or probably cannot imagine) are added every day to what Technorati calls the World Live Web.
While one way […]
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Posted on April 6th, 2008 by dhirender
In a rather surprising move, OpenMoko has published the 3D drafting files for the phone’s case online. What more, the CAD files for the Neo branded handsets let anyone who knows how to work with CAD alter the case’s design.
The Taiwanese manufacturer had published their software earlier, allowing developers to tweak it as they wished.
Involving […]
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