Google is still trying to compete with Facebook and Twitter in terms of traffic generation. Google Buzz. Sharing through Google Reader has risen by over 34% (this is an estimation but thought to be reliable). Even this meteoric rise is dwarfed by Twitter and Facebook which account for the vast bulk of social media traffic. [...]
Have a look here – Royal Pingdom – and you will see that the growth of twitter continues. A nice graph tells part of the story: This visualises all Tweets from all sources and shows that activity in terms of Tweets per month continues to rise. This is a good time to be thinking of [...]
Yahoo has slumped to third in the US in respect of web destination popularity. Google, naturally, is first but Facebook has taken the coveted second spot. Some of this is due to the way the “votes” are counted. This cannot be good news for Yahoo who have always surprised us with their hold near the [...]
Google Buzz is all the talk at the moment. Some say it can take over from Twitter and Facebook, others are more sceptical. But, what CAN be said is that it is certainly something Google is investing time, energy and resources in – and Google gets most things right. So, best to be aware of [...]
Do you have a policy in the workplace on the use of social media? More than two thirds of New Zealand companies don’t. Globally that’s 85%. It appears that the use of social media is accepted for work and business but the distinction between the two are hazy. The challenge, it seems, is to channel [...]