Thursday, December 4th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond
On the same day Google announced their virtual world, Lively, would shut down at the end of the year, they unveiled their latest search engine technology - SearchWiki. Not a fully public, editable wiki in the sense of Wikipedia, the Google Blog reports that SearchWiki is "a way for you ...
Posted in Search Engines, Wikis | No Comments »
Tagged with Google, Lively by Google, SearchWiki, Wikipedia
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond
I was doing research for work, and compiled some interesting numbers regarding Facebook:
Facebook is the fifth most popular website in the U.S. (behind Google, Yahoo, MySpace, then YouTube) and also fifth globally (behind Yahoo, Google, YouTube, then Windows Live).¹
Currently there are 32 million regsistered users in the U.S.,² a number which ...
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Tagged with Alexa, Compete, Evite, Facebook, Flickr, Google, MySpace, Nielsen, Photobucket, windows live, yahoo, YouTube
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 by Kyle Welter
The Olympics never fail to be an exciting time for not only the world of sports, but also for the world of marketing and branding. The Olympic athlete is viewed as patriotic, heroic and even superhuman, so when brands get the chance to be associated with these people, they take ...
Posted in Blogs | 2 Comments »
Tagged with Google, Lenovo, olympics
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 by Nick Bodmer
Cuil, a new search engine created by many former Google employees, recently went live. Cuil (pronounced like "cool") is a search engine that differs from Google in two very important ways. First, page ranking is not determined by popularity, but instead by content analysis. (Google's algorithm relies on how often other ...
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Tagged with cuil, Google, viacom, YouTube
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 by Griffin Hammond
Someone tell me. I'm guessing Facebook started it.
Web design often differs between global cultures, but blue appears to represent social media on websites prominent in the U.S., Europe, South America, and Asia. Interestingly, when blue is not used prominently, a black/red motif seems popular. (YouTube, MetroFLOG, Netlog, Bebo, Tagged, Media ...
Posted in Blogs, Micro-blogging, Photo-sharing, Social Aggregators, Social Bookmarking, Social Networks, Video, Virtual Worlds | 1 Comment »
Tagged with Asia, Bebo, Blogger, classmates, Del.icio.us, Digg, europe, Facebook, fav.or.it, Flickr, friendfeed, friendster, gaia online, Google, hi5, imeem, LinkedIn, livejournal, lively, metroflog, MySpace, netlog, orkut, perfspot, Photobucket, Plaxo, Plurk, Reddit, reunion, skyrock, sonico, south america, tagged, Twitter, united states, v kontakte, windows live, wordpress, yahoo! 360, YouTube
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 by Kyle Welter
Released June 8th, Lively by Google is one of the more exciting virtual worlds to hit the market this year. Realizing the limiting factors that desktop programs similar to SecondLife pose, Lively has alternatively been created as a web-based program which appeals to casual users over heavy creators. The concept ...
Posted in Virtual Worlds | No Comments »
Tagged with avatar, Discovery Channel, Google, lively, Millions of Us, Rivers Run Red, Virtual Based
Friday, July 11th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond
I read this Boston Globe article about customer complaints in social media, and one story caught my attention:
When C.C. Chapman noticed a blemish in his high-definition television's reception during the NBA playoffs recently, he blasted a quick gripe about Comcast into the online ether, using the social network Twitter.
Minutes later, ...
Posted in Micro-blogging, Search Engines | No Comments »
Tagged with Boston Globe, Comcast, Compete, Google, Plurk, Summize, Twitter
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond
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I've compiled a large list of popular social networks in the U.S. and around the world, and using the most recent Alexa rankings, I've made a list of the most popular social networks here and abroad.
"Global rank" and "U.S. rank" represent web traffic compared to every ...
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Tagged with AdultFriendFinder, Alexa, Bebo, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, classmates, Compete, Del.icio.us, egypt, europe, Facebook, Flickr, france, friendster, gaia online, Google, hi5, imeem, india, indonesia, iran, ireland, japan, LinkedIn, livejournal, malaysia, metroflog, mexico, microsoft windows, mixi, MySpace, netlog, new zealand, ning, orkut, pakistan, perfspot, philippines, Plaxo, portugal, reunion, romania, russia, skyrock, sonico, south america, switzerland, tagged, thailand, top, Twitter, ukraine, united kingdom, united states, v kontakte, yahoo! 360
Thursday, June 19th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond
I've been messing around with different web traffic stats sources, as I begin to look at the most influential bloggers. Blogs are starting to rival traditional sources of news and information, so from a public relations standpoint, it's important to know where the loudest voices are, because maybe you can get ...
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Tagged with Alexa, Amazon, Boing Boing, Compete, engadget, gizmodo, Google, graphs, public relations, tech crunch, Technorati, the huffington post, top, web traffic
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 by Nick Bodmer
I ran into a new type of search engine today, called Mahalo. Mahalo is a community driven search engine, akin to what you would get if you took wikipedia and mashed it together with google.
You enter a search term (for example, I tried PS3) and you are taken to a ...
Posted in Search Engines | No Comments »
Tagged with Google, mahalo
