May 20, 2012 • 8:10 am 0
INVESTORS have gotten used to a swift run-up, or “pop”, in the share price of tech firms that stage an initial public offering (IPO). But doubts swirling around Facebook’s business model meant that the giant social network’s stock failed to …
MORE via Facebook goes public: Not top of the pops | The Economist.
Filed under: analytics, Blogosphere, consumers, Culture Think, MashCrunchWired, News, Can we trust Facebook?; Cyber corporations cataloging an Orwellian world?;, facebook, Facebook IPO
May 18, 2012 • 4:43 am 0
When you get a lot of smart and interested people together to make a prediction in aggregate, it can be scary accurate. Anyone who has read the James Surowiecki business science classic The Wisdom of Crowds, and a host of corroborating authors such as …
MORE via Facebook IPO: Did Twitter Crowdsourcing Just Give Us Closing Price?.
Filed under: analytics, Blogosphere, Culture Think, News, symbols as swords, Can we trust Facebook?; Cyber corporations cataloging an Orwellian world?;, facebook
April 21, 2012 • 4:48 am 1
WordPress rules the blogosphere. That for close observers not surprising fact has been proven once again: Our friends at the website monitoring service Pingdom have looked at the current list of Technorati’s top 100 blogs and analysed which software those 100 most popular blogs in the world are …
via WordPress rules the blogosphere « Twingly Blog.
Filed under: analytics, Blogosphere, Culture Think, Social Media, Using Social Media, WeSeeReason, blogging, blogosphere, wordpress
March 14, 2012 • 4:22 am 0
Social media has turned the purchase funnel on its head.
That’s the crux of a study that Facebook recently published in conjunction with …
MORE via Facebook’s 6-Point Plan for Building Brands in the Social Media Age.
Filed under: analytics, Blogosphere, MashCrunchWired, Mass Media and Public Opinion, facebook, internet marketing, marketing; Branding; Internet 2.0; The Social Web; Building a Web Presence;
February 17, 2012 • 6:04 am 0
If you haven’t heard of Pinterest, you likely will soon.
Traffic to the website—which lets users create online scrapbooks to share …
MORE via What’s This Pinterest Website? – WSJ.com.
Filed under: analytics, Blogosphere, consumers, MashCrunchWired, Mass Media and Public Opinion, Using Social Media, WeSeeReason, Internet 2.0; social media; twitter; followers; media success; building social media
February 17, 2012 • 5:44 am 0
Google Inc. and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple Inc.’s Web browser on their iPhones and computers—tracking the Web-browsing habits of people who intended for that kind of monitoring to be …
MORE via Google Tracked iPhones, Bypassing Apple Browser Privacy Settings – WSJ.com.
Filed under: analytics, Blogosphere, Changing Media Paradigm, consumers, Culture Think, MashCrunchWired, Mass Media and Public Opinion, News, Social Media, Using Social Media, WeSeeReason, Google; Google world; You have been Googled; Big Brother is Searching?
February 17, 2012 • 5:23 am 0
Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his …
MORE via How Companies Learn Your Secrets – NYTimes.com.
Filed under: analytics, Blogosphere, Civic Engagement, consumers, Culture Think, News, WeSeeReason, Big Brother is Watching; government surveillance; FBI waste; September 11th impact on civil liberties; civil liberties; civil rights; freedom under fire;, privacy, statistics and marketing
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