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Facebook, MySpace Too Popular For Own Good
Social networks can be used to waste time, and members have also been known to encounter a virus or two. Now, decision…
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Google Grabs 76% Of Search Spend In Q4
U.S. search advertising spending was relatively flat for most of the year and declined by 8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to search marketing firm Efficient Frontier. Breaking it down by search engine, Google grabbed 76 percent of search spending in Q4. Spending on Google Search and its syndicated networks dipped 4 percent year-over-year (YOY). Despite that, Google gained 2 percent market…
Meebo Gets Facebook Back
UPDATE: Meebo has now announced that Facebook is back on. Seth at the Meebo Blog writes: After some hard work from the folks here at Meebo and help from a whole host of people at Facebook, we now have Facebook back in Meebo. Plus, Meebo is now the first launch partner of the “alpha” version of the Facebook Connect + Chat integration. That’s pretty cool.
Social Networks Need To Figure Out Revenue Models Soon
It’s been said several times our favorite social networks have really struggled to turn a profit. YouTube, MySpace, Twitter and Facebook all are in this same boat, though they must not be a total money sink since they’re still around. The bigger ones do have advertising programs in place at least.
YouTube, AP, Hurting Fair Use
“This is what it’s come to,” writes the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Fred von Lohmann. “Teenagers singing ‘Winter Wonderland’ being censored on YouTube.
Using Advanced Segments in Google Analytics
I had a chat with E-Nor President Feras Alhlou after reading a guest post of his on the Official Google Analytics Blog. He was asked by Google to make a post, as E-Nor is a Google Analytics Authorized Consultant and is very active on a number of Google Analytics (GA) support fronts.
