More than 70 percent of Internet users in Australia visited a social networking site in June, up 29 percent from the previous year, according to a new study from comScore.
"Social networking continues to grow in popularity both across Australia and throughout the world," said Will Hodgman, comScore executive vice president for the Asia-Pacific region.
New AdWords Interface Comes to Google TV Ads
Google announced that its TV advertisers now have access to the new AdWords interface. Users will be able to access the old one for a while, but by the end of the month, they will have no choice but to use the new one.
TV advertisers that aren’t already familiar with the new interface will want to get acquainted. They can start with the following video:
INTERPOL Launches Site Featuring Stolen Artwork
International police organization INTERPOL announced today it has launched a website featuring a database of global stolen artwork.
The move is part of the agency’s effort to combat the illicit trade of stolen artwork.
Wolfram Alpha Provides Financial Answers Based on Xignite Info
Xignite, which provides global financial market data, is working with Wolfram Alpha, so that Wolfram Alpha users can get such data when performing a query.
YouTube Adds Captions Option to API
About a year ago, YouTube added its feature, which lets users include captions in their videos. The company is now including this feature in the YouTube API, so developers can utilize the functionality.
WordPress.com Launches WP.me – URL Shortener
If you’re a blogger with WordPress.com, you’ll be happy to learn that you now have the capability to shorten your URL’s within Wordpress.com with the new WP.me service. You can see an example of a WP.me link below.
Original
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/shorten/
Shortend Version
http://wp.me/sf2B5-shorten
MySpace Way More Popular Than Twitter.com
You wouldn’t know it from the amount of media attention that Twitter receives these days, but MySpace.com is still way more popular than Twitter.com in the US. It’s not getting the visitors of Facebook.com, but in July MySpace.com had 59,613,985 unique visitors, while Twitter.com had 23,284,395, according to Compete.
Twitter Tries To Put A Stop To Follower-Selling
It seems that Twitter may be taking a stand against the practice of selling followers for cash. uSocial, an Australian company that became rather infamous for trying something similar with Digg, has apparently been directed to stop spamming the microblogging site.
Facebook For iPhone 3.0 Has Been Submitted To Apple
Soon you’ll be able take better control of your Facebook account as Facebook for iPhone 3.0 has been sent to Apple for approval.
Are you looking forward to the new Facebook app? Let us know.
Online Video Viewing Reaches Record Audience
More than 157 million U.S. Internet users viewed online video during the month of June, the largest audience recorded for a single month, according to a new report from comScore.
The rise in video viewing is mainly due to important news stories during June, including Michael Jackson’s death and the Iranian elections, which generated significant gains particularly at major media properties such as Viacom Digital (includes MTV), Microsoft sites (includes MSNBC) and Turner Network (includes CNN).