Well a new survey of nearly 2,000 people found that zero percent of them would pay to use Twitter or a similar service. Mashable.com has more:
This finding is just one unearthed by USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism’s 2010 Digital Future Study, a study that’s been tracking online and social media behavior for the past [...]
You’ve probably seen Old Spice’s wildly successful YouTube campaign featuring the “Old Spice guy” and his video responses to Twitter messages. Well today, Mashable reported that not only were the videos successful, but Old Spice’s sales doubled as a result of the campaign. Here’s more from Mashable:
We already published stats from video analytics company Visible Measures [...]
Facebook is now officially halfway to a billion users, having doubled in size over the last year.
Check out this interesting interview that founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg had with Diane Sawyer. They discussed everything from democracy to Facebook’s continuing privacy issues to private jets:
Despite some scrutiny, the global phenomenon that is [...]
Here’s an interesting take from Paul Leonard at the Dayton Daily News on the landmark animal rights agreement struck between the Humane Society, Ohio Humane, and Governor Strickland. Congrats again to all who supported this initiative. It’s a great victory, and a big step forward, for animal rights in Ohio.
Recently, Strickland reached an agreement with [...]
By now, you’ve probably already heard of Google’s new Android App Inventor — a visual mobile app designer that requires no programming skills to operate. The App Inventor gives anyone the opportunity to create a custom-made app for their cause, business, or brilliant idea at virtually no cost.
Will this lure new developers onto the Android [...]
I ran across an interesting article in the New York Times this weekend that revealed something you probably already knew, yet may not have thought about much. Internet users jump through a surprising number of hoops each day to find their favorite TV show, sort out the best news reports, find coupons, cheap airfare… the [...]
Increasingly, websites are allowing users to login with credentials they may already have — like Facebook, Twitter, Google, or OpenID. While there are a wide array of 3rd party login options, which login is leading the pack? Unsurprisingly, as the largest social networking site in the world, Facebook is leading. ReadWriteWeb (via the New York [...]