Check out “Mini Maps” – an advergame using social networking and Google Maps – just created by Mini France. A Facebook app that allows you to customise a virtual MINI, and then challenge your Facebook friends to time trials around the world using a Google Maps ‘mash-up.’ Read →
Recent data from comScore shows that LinkedIn use has increased across the globe from March 2010 to March 2011. The social networking site for business professionals has grown 65% worldwide, from 48 million users in March 2010 to 79 million in March 2011. Read →
eMarketer reports current statistics and growth rate projections for Facebook and Twitter in the U.S. While 57% of US web users will use Facebook in 2011, Facebook’s ‘once-dramatic’ growth rates are over, and eMarketer predicts that Twitter’s growth rate will be significantly larger in the next few years. Read →
Micro-blogging continues to grow in China, and Sina Weibo – referred to by the SFGate as “China’s homegrown equivalent” to Twitter – is responsible for 87% of the time spent on micro-blogging services there. The last figures released by Weibo listed the service as having 50 million members back in October 2010. SFGate reported analyst [...] Read →
Over 1.4 million fans comment and share stories on NPR‘s Facebook page, and Nieman Journalism Lab reports that this is one of the most popular media outlets on Facebook. The referral traffic on NPR’s Facebook page has grown from 1.5 million in August 2010 to 4.5 million pageviews a month. While that traffic used to [...] Read →
eMarketer predicts that the number of mobile social network users in the U.S. will more than double in the next five years, from 38.9 million in 2010 to an estimated 79.1 million in 2015. As mobile use of social networks gains in popularity, the adoption of location-based mobile services will also grow rapidly. eMarketer reports [...] Read →
Japan’s three largest home-grown social networks – GREE, mixi and DeNA’s Mobage-town – in September 2010 each had between 21 million and 23 million users, and all three have strong mobile offerings, as reported by eMarketer. GREE and Mobage-town have rapidly increased user numbers and engagement by offering hundreds of free and paid social games, [...] Read →
In an interview with Social Times, Tagged social network co-founder and CEO Greg Tseng claims that the platform is the third-largest social network in the US, with over 100 million registered users who form 100 million “new connections” every month. The site is seeing 5 billion monthly page views. Tseng says that there is an 80% [...] Read →
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