The world is forever changing in the world of the Internet….so much so that at times it’s hard to keep up. So here is something else to rock your technological boat….
‘Facebook has unveiled a new messaging platform which takes aim at one of the internet’s first applications, email.
Although blogs had been speculating that Facebook would announce an email service to rival Google’s Gmail and others, Facebook said email was just one component of its plans.
Declaring email past its prime in the age of texts and instant messages, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company doesn’t believe email is going to be a modern messaging system. The first internet email system arrived in the early 1970s.
Continue Reading…
In this day and age, you can’t ignore the fact that social media has had an enormous impact on the way we do business and life in general.
If you choose not to be a part of the Social Media revolution, you are potentially sabotaging the future of your business. The impact you can make can be quite substantial; you just need to choose to join in the Social Media revolution.
Sometimes it is easy to lose sight of the number of people collaborating, researching, and interacting online through the different aspects of Social Media.
Continue Reading…
Only a few years ago we would have all asked, ‘What is a Facebook’ and ‘What is a Twitter’,because the online world changes so quickly. Behind the scenes there is a battle raging that will impact the way we sell and the way we buy in the days ahead. Here’s a small insight…
‘….Selling ads is Google’s big money-maker, but the online-ad business is broadening away from Google’s sweet spot, selling ads tied to the search-engine terms people use. Instead, advertisers want to target people based on more specific personal information such as hobbies, income, illnesses or circle of friends.
The changes at Google reflect a power realignment online. For years, the strongest companies on the internet were the ones with the most visitor traffic. Today, the power resides with those that have the richest data and are the savviest about using it.
Continue Reading…
We live in a day and age where the lines between our social life, our purchasing life and our work life are becoming more and more blurred because of the ever increasing hold that social media is taking a hold in our lives.
As a worker we are continually bombarded with what is happening in the world, in the lives of our friends and through all forms of online advertising and alerts. And as employers we are presented with the challenge – should we create an environment that is totally devoid of this interference, or should we encourage our staff to engage?
New research shows almost three quarters of Australian workers say ‘watching YouTube’ is the most common online activity at work. The survey from Dynamic Business Magazine also shows more than a third of Australians spend at least an hour on Facebook while at work.
‘Many of us are in front of a computer for the majority of our work day, often in our own cubicles or offices and now we know what’s really going on,’ said DBM’s Jen Bishop. ‘This kind of online activity is often generated by emails we receive promoting sales or new products, emails about new messages or posts on Facebook or friends emailing about new YouTube videos we just have to watch.’
Continue Reading…
And we all thought that there couldn’t be anything bigger than Google. Oh how wrong we can be. See what has just happened in this amazing world called the Internet.
‘Facebook has overtaken Google to become the most popular website in the United States for the first time, according to new data from Hitwise, which measures Internet traffic. For the week ending March 13, the social networking juggernaut registered 7.07% market share, beating the search giant’s 7.03% market share.
“The market share of visits to Facebook.com increased 185% last week as compared to the same week in 2009, while visits to Google.com increased 9% during the same time frame,” Heather Dougherty, Director of Research at Hitwise wrote in a blog post. (Facebook briefly topped Google last Christmas and New Year’s, but this is the first time the website’s weekly numbers have beaten Google.)
The new data is sure to unnerve Google, which has been trying to crack into the social networking market — with controversial results. For Facebook, the data will add further fuel to its push to go public sometime in the next year or two, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg has suggested. Analysts predict that when Facebook does go public, it could see an immediate valuation of $35 billion — a figure which could rise to $100 billion by 2015.
Since December 26, Hitwise’s data shows Facebook steadily closing the gap on Google in terms of weekly U.S. visits.
Continue Reading…
