Twice a year (in June and in December), Vincenzo Cosenza creates a “world map of social networks”, showing the dominant social networks by country, based on traffic data gathered from Alexa and Google Trends for Websites. In June 2009, Facebook was already quite big, and at the end of … [Read more...]
Apple Just Handed Twitter The Keys To The iOS Kingdom — Here’s Twitter’s Take
June 9, 2011 By
When we first broke the news that iOS 5 would come with Twitter integration, I wasn’t thinking big enough. Based on the fairly vague (but credible) information I had, I figured it was mainly based around the Twitter Photos product which Twitter was rushing to get out in time. Turns out it goes … [Read more...]
Apple Just Handed Twitter The Keys To The iOS Kingdom — Here’s Twitter’s Take
June 9, 2011 By
When we first broke the news that iOS 5 would come with Twitter integration, I wasn’t thinking big enough. Based on the fairly vague (but credible) information I had, I figured it was mainly based around the Twitter Photos product which Twitter was rushing to get out in time. Turns out it goes … [Read more...]
Fred Wilson, Chris Dixon, And David Lee On High Valuations And Competing With Platforms
June 8, 2011 By
“Building on someone else’s platform is a good idea, if you have your eyes wide open,” investor Fred Wilson told a packed room of entrepreneurs on Monday night at an Internet Week event in New York City. He was answering a question about whether or not it’s a good idea for … [Read more...]
A Look At Who’s Winning The Talent Wars In Tech (Hint: It Rhymes With Twitter)
June 7, 2011 By
There’s been a lot of talk about the fierce competition for talent among the top players in the tech industry. As the story goes, Facebook has been the primary source of anguish for its competitors, seemingly bearing the gravitational pull of a giant sun. Even the ubiquitous Google was forced … [Read more...]
ShareThis Study: Facebook Accounts For 38 Percent Of Sharing Traffic On The Web
June 6, 2011 By
Sharing is big on the Web. We all know that. But exactly how big? ShareThis has some answers in a study it put together with Starcom MediaVest Group and Rubinson Partners. Looking across the sharing and clicking habits of the more than 300 million people a month who pass links with a ShareThis … [Read more...]
The Internet Makes You Declare Winners, Unless You’re On French TV
June 3, 2011 By
In an extremely absurd move by French TV regulatory agency CSA, the French can no longer say the words ”Facebook” or “Twitter” on television unless they are in the context of a news story. While France has an interesting history of regulating the adoption of commonplace … [Read more...]
The Internet Makes You Declare Winners, Unless You’re On French TV
June 3, 2011 By
In an extremely absurd move by French TV regulatory agency CSA, the French can no longer say the words ”Facebook” or “Twitter” on television unless they are in the context of a news story. While France has an interesting history of regulating the adoption of commonplace … [Read more...]
AdGrok Team Joins Twitter To Help With Revenue — Except Founder/CEO Who Goes To Facebook
May 31, 2011 By
Yesterday, we reported that Twitter was close to acquiring AdGrok, the Y Combinator-backed keyword bidding platform. Today, the company has confirmed the move with a blog post, “@AdGrok Is Going To @JoinTheFlock“. But as we noted in an update to our post yesterday, things are a little … [Read more...]
