Mar
17th
Posted by Keirsun on March 17, 2010 at 9:04 am
Julianne Pepitone at CNNMoney shares traffic stats from Hitwise showing that Facebook was the most visited site in the U.S. for the week ending March 13th, beating out top-seat Google for the first time for a full weeklong period.
Stan Schroeder at Mashable shares the findings of a recent study showing that “mobile app downloads should jump from 7 billion in 2009 to almost 50 billion in 2012.”
Raj Dash at All Facebook tells us about an upgrade to Facebook’s search feature that includes more results that are related to your social graph on the network, in addition to “globally relevant results.”
Mar
15th
Posted by Keirsun on March 15, 2010 at 8:33 am
Robin Wauters at TechCrunch tells us that Brightcove, an enterprise-level video publishing platform, plans to announce signing EMI Music to its client roster.
Samuel Axon at Mashable tells us about location-sharing service Foursquare’s record-setting day, with nearly 350,000 check-ins on Saturday, mainly due to the SXSW festival.
Frederic Lardinois at ReadWriteWeb previews upcoming changes to the social news sharing site, which were announced over the weekend.
Mar
10th
Posted by Keirsun on March 10, 2010 at 9:19 am
Barb Dybwad at Mashable shares an in-depth interview with MySpace Co-Presidents Jason Hirschhorn and Mike Jones who are planning to bring the ailing social network back to life.
Nick Bilton at The New York Times tells us about a new analytics dashboard that Foursquare is planning to roll out to business owners in the very near future.
Eric Eldon at Inside Facebook points out that next month Facebook is planning to launch a social check-in feature, similar to Foursquare, that will allow users to share location information with their friends.
Mar
8th
Posted by Keirsun on March 8, 2010 at 9:05 am
Stan Schroeder at Mashable shares traffic and user stats from Tumblr showing strong growth for the micro-blogging platform, in addition to a couple details on Tumblr’s soon-to-be-released revenue generating features.
MG Siegler at TechCrunch reviews a new Foursquare feature that adds a “new layer to your location history data.”
Nick O’Neill at All Facebook takes a closer look at a significant jump in mobile Facebook usage over the past week.
