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10 interesting facts about: Linked-In
July 12th, 2010
Posted in General Blog
Linked-In is technically a social network, but not what people really think of when most people think of social media networks… at least not me. I believe that most people think of a play to goof off online while reconnecting with friends. And while Linked-In will allow you to connect with old and current business colleagues, it’s not so mcuh used for gaming or being truly social as much as it is for networking. So even thought you can communicate back and forth using this great online tool, which I use myself, I’d call this more online business networking than I would call in online social networking.
So, without further wait, here are the 10 interesting facts about Linked-In:
- Having been created on May 5 2003, Linked-in is older than Facebook, Twitter and Youtube.
- There are more than 70 million users worldwide.
- Members of LinkedIn come from more than 200 countries from every continent.
- LinkedIn is available in six native languages – English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
- 80% of companies use LinkedIn as a recruitment tool.
- A new member joins LinkedIn every second.
- LinkedIn receives almost 12 million unique visitors per day.
- Executives from all Fortune 500 companies are on LinkedIn.
- Recruiters account for 1-in-20 LinkedIn profiles.
And I thought this one very interesting:
10. Oracle’s Chief Financial Officer, Jeff Epstein, was headhunted for the position via his LinkedIn profile.
Statistics from LinkedIn press centre and SysComm International.
10 Cool Facts About: Twitter
July 9th, 2010
Posted in General Blog
Twitter fun facts:
- Twitter’s web platform only accounts for a quarter of its users – 75% use third-party apps.
- Twitter gets more than 300,000 new users every day.
- There are currently 110 million users of Twitter’s services.
- Twitter receives 180 million unique visits each month.
- There are more than 600 million searches on Twitter every day.
- Twitter started as a simple SMS-text service.
- Over 60% of Twitter use is outside the U.S.
- There are more than 50,000 third-party apps for Twitter.
- More than a third of users access Twitter via their mobile phone.
And I thought this one very interesting:
10. Twitter has donated access to all of its tweets to the Library of Congress for research and preservation… it’s true. see their own tweet about just that!
Statistics from Twitter and the Chirp Conference.
10 interesting facts about: YouTube
July 6th, 2010
Posted in General Blog
Video social network is probably one of the most important types of social media is the use of videos online. While I would say that Facebook is used more often than Youtube, I would say that once people go over to youtube.com, they stay there longer than they would at YouTube…. These are only my thoughts from my research on who long people spend on YouTube in a given session, so don’t take it as absolute fact.
But here are some interesting fact, taken from statistics of the YouTube press center.
- The very first video uploaded was called “Me at the Zoo,” on 23rd April 2005.
- By June 2006, more than 65,000 videos were being uploaded every day
- YouTube receives more than 2 billion viewers per day.
- Every minute, 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube.
- The U.S. accounts for 70% of YouTube users.
- Over half of YouTube’s users are under 20 years old.
- You would need to live for around 1,000 years to watch all the videos currently on YouTube.
- YouTube is available in 19 countries and 12 languages.
- Music videos account for 20% of uploads.
And I thought this one very interesting:
10. YouTube uses the same amount of bandwidth as the entire Internet used in 2000.
Get additional fast facts about youtube.com here, or even some cool store items from the YouTube Store…. or if someone wants to get me this cool google maps shirt, I will thank you for 1,000 years.
Cool Facts About: Facebook… Did you know…
July 6th, 2010
Posted in General Blog
Facebook fun facts:
1. The average Facebook user has 130 friends.
2. More than 25 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) is shared each month.
3. Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application.
4. More than 150 million people engage with Facebook on external websites every month.
5. Two-thirds of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and half of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites have integrated with Facebook.
6. There are more than 100 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
7. People that access Facebook via mobile are twice as active than non-mobile users (think about that when designing your Facebook page).
8. The average Facebook user is connected to 60 pages, groups and events.
9. People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook.
10. There are more than 1 million entrepreneurs and developers from 180 countries on Facebook.
‘Larry King Live!’ Comes to an end
June 30th, 2010
Posted in General Blog, Video Clips
Today, Larry King told the world he will be ending his long-running CNN show, Larry King Live.
“It’s time to hang up the nightly suspenders,” the famous host announced.
If I should say anything, they were more than just nightly suspenders, but very, very mighty suspenders indeed. Larry King Live holds the Guinness World Record for the longest-running show with the same host in the same time slot; in fact, it’s been a regular feature on the air for 25 years. It was also the first-ever worldwide phone-in TV talk show. King himself has been in professional broadcasting for 53 years, during which time he has conducted more than 40,000 interviews with celebrities, politicians, topical experts and others.
Understandably, news about King’s pulling the plug on his show created a significant hiccup in the social web. Let’s take a look at the topic as it trended on Twitter, Google and elsewhere.
First, here is a YouTube video showing King’s announcement:
Larry is a great interviewer and in his announcement, he said “I’ll still be a part of the CNN family, hosting several Larry King specials on major national and international subjects… With this chapter closing I’m looking forward to the future and what my next chapter will bring, but for now it’s time to hang up my nightly suspenders.”
Old audio file, from sonic foundry. I made this years ago with my friend Evan Stout
June 27th, 2010
Posted in General Blog
Old audio file, from sonic foundry. I made this years ago with my friend Evan Stout. I was testing playing and uploading audio to my blog and was using this file to test it with. So, I thought that I would go ahead and make a post out of it. Enjoy the retro flash back oh-mine!
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