VP of global sales of Facebook Mike Murphy said in a Bloomberg interview that the number of its advertiser clients -though without divulging actual figure - quadrupled since the start of 2009.
Its share of the US display ad market also grew from 11% in the fourth quarter of 2009, to 16% in the first quarter of this year, putting it ahead of rival Yahoo!, whose share fell from 13% to 12% in the same period.
YouTube videos got short lifespan and they seem to be getting shorter. According the data from analytics firm TubeMogul, 50% of views of a YouTube video are generated in the first 6 days it is on the site, compared to 14 days in 2008. After 20 days, it captures probably 75% of its total views, which is around 24 days shorter compared to 2008.
Indonesia marks a 48 per cent growth in online usage which tops the list in Southeast Asia according to the second annual Net Index Study 2010 by Yahoo. Indonesia’s tariffs and 3G expansion has certainly play a key role in the growth.The big leap is due to an increase in internet usage in different parts of Indonesia (inlcuding Tier 2 cities) through mobile access and the increased poplularity in online reading. Social networking usage has also reached 77 per cent, growing 19 per cent from last year.
Sony Computer Science Laboratories (CSL) Inc has developed a liveblogging device for Cats. The device fits well onto cats’ collar, and with a camera, an acceleration sensor plus a GPS, it can detect your cat’s movement and translate it into actions. Currently there are 11 default phrases available in it but Sony CSL is hoping to increase the cats’ vocabularies.
Nestle informed its 90,000 Facebook fans that: “We welcome your comments, but please don’t post using an altered version of any of our logos as your profile pic — they will be deleted.”
Jagos Golubovic comment: “I was a big fan of your products, but now, when I saw what you guys wrote, I think I’m gonna stop buying them.” Others commented to just stop being fans.
Facebook not only for teens…… This phenomenon Social media platform’s fastest growing user group are women 55 and over (increase over 175%) and men age 55 and over (increase over 138%), according to the New York Times
