eMarketer Lowers Social Networking Ad Spending Estimate (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
In spite of media hype around social networking, worldwide advertising spending on social networks has not met expectations. eMarketer has revised its worldwide social network ad spending estimates, now projecting that advertisers will spend 1 billion pounds Sterling on social networks worldwide in 2008, rising to only 2.2 billion pounds in 2011.
Nielsen: MySpace, Club Penguin growth static, LinkedIn soaring
Music-focused social networks Imeem and Buzznet are also growing fast, the numbers found, and Facebook continues to grow but not as quickly as one might expect.
CMU Mobile Commerce Lab: (Sr.) Research Programmer (Pittsburgh, PA)
The Mobile Commerce Lab at Carnegie Mellon University has an open position for a (senior) research programmer, projected to start in the summer of 2008. The position, affiliated with a project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), will focus on scalable solutions for providing users with …
AOL wraps up Bebo buy
Ian Williams, vnunet.com, Tuesday 20 May 2008 at 16:35:00 Deal spawns People Networks business unit AOL has completed its $850m acquisition of social networking site Bebo, and has launched a new People Networks business unit based around the buy…. > Read the full article …
James Stewart: Innovation Edge: Are online social networks the new cities?
Today I m at NESTA s Innovation Edge conference and did a little live blogging. These notes are largely unedited, so they re likely to be a bit sketchy and may be missing bits and pieces as my attention shifted. For context, feel free to post a comment and I ll catch up with them when I can. The panel: …
No surprises, Indians favor social networking (CIOL)
OSLO, NORWAY: Traffic to social networks comprise almost 40 percent of the mobile Web according to Opera Software’s “State of the Mobile Web” report.
Nielsen: MySpace, Club Penguin growth static, LinkedIn soaring
Music-focused social networks Imeem and Buzznet are also growing fast, Nielsen finds, and Facebook continues to grow, but not as quickly as one might expect.
What Nutella (and I) Can Teach You About Blog Marketing
by Jennifer Laycock Yesterday I spent the day at a small conference here in Columbus put on by Ohio Web Leaders. They’d asked me to come and speak about blogging for business and blog marketing to a mix of small business, PR types and in-house marketers. Now I always try to break things down into every …
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