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Pizza Hut, a brand that has been in social media-related news in the past when they sought a Twittering intern, has now…
Yahoo's first commercial from the big $100 million "Y!ou" campaign has hit the web. The clip has been posted at several video sites and social networks around the web, and has likely been embedded all over the place by now. The company says it will soon air on TV (via SIA).
Nielsen set out to prove that social media use put a significant dent into email use, assuming that the more time people spent on social networks, the less time they were likely to spend using email. It didn't quite work out that way in the firm's experiment however. Nielsen explains its methodology:
The European Commission said today it wants to implement new rules for the makers of MP3 players that would require them to follow new volume standards. The Commission pointed to a study that found listening to personal music players at a high volume over a long period can lead to permanent hearing damage and 5 to 10 percent of listeners risk permanent hearing loss. It's…
The Washington Post has sent a memo to its editors/journalists outlining the publication's social media policies. They don't leave too many options for what is actually allowed to take place on social networks. This is an issue that never really seems to go away, and is brought up every time a publication's social media policies are discovered.
Research from Nielsen indicates that wealthier people and people who live in big cities (at least in the US) are more likely to use social networks than people with less money that live in smaller towns. Nielsen Claritas, a branch of Nielsen that looks at segmentation in consumer behavior, says that there is a "marked difference" in the demographic makeup between the two largest social…
