Nielsen: Twitter’s Audience Retention Rate Sucks

Getting someone's attention can be difficult these days; people have so many interests and so little time that convincing them to swing by a website can count as a real victory.  Unfortunately for Twitter, it's also important to keep people around, and in this respect, statistics indicate that the micro-blogging service is failing rather miserably.

Internet-Connected TVs Gaining Popularity

Demand for Internet-connected television is growing rapidly, according to a new study by the Consumer Electronics Association. The study, "Net-Enabled Video: Early Adopters Only?" found that about half of potential TV buyers say they are likely to purchase an Internet-connected TV. There are numerous ways people would use an Internet-enabled TV. Almost half (48%) of U.S. online adults would use their Internet connected TV to…

Will Twitter Replace Google in Search?

Has Google's model of spidering and indexing web pages in an ordered list become obsolete? Is the old static model of search about to be replaced? Does a real-time online conversation (a la Twitter) make for a more relevant and compelling search experience? These are the questions that I recently posed to a group of search and Internet experts. To say that these guys know…