comScore: Facebook Attracted Over 100M Visitors In November
Well, it’s official: Facebook is freaking huge. Today, comScore released some statistics regarding November, and during that month, the social network managed to hit (and pass) a very significant milestone.
Sexting Most Common Among Older Teens
New research from the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that 4 percent of cell phone owners ages 12 to 17 have sent sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images of themselves to someone else on a cell phone.
Pew found 15 percent of teens that age have received this kind of image of someone they know personally on their cell phone. Sexting was most common among older teens with 8 percent of 17-year-old cell-owners saying they have sent suggestive images of themselves by text while only 4 percent of 12-year-olds have.
Dictionary.com Gets New Leadership in Yahoo/Microsoft Vet
Ask’s Dictionary.com has appointed a new President – Shravan Goli. He replaces Doug Leeds, who was named President of Ask.com-U.S., in October. Goli will report to Scott Garell, President of Ask Networks, and will be responsible for leading the strategy and overall business for Dictionary.com.
Google Puts Universal Search in Suggestions, Launches Quick Scroll
In case you were thinking that Google hadn’t made enough announcements this week, they have made a couple more. First, they are adding universal search results to Google Suggest, and second, they have released a new Chrome extension called Google Quick Scroll.
Google Analytics API Gets New Features
Google has launched some new features for the Google Analytics API. These include support for advanced segments and 48 new metrics around goal performance, as well as goal configuration data.
Verify Your Place Page in Google’s Local Search Results
When you find a business on Google Maps and click "more info", you will be taken to that business’ "Place Page." These are the pages that Google introduced a while back that essentially gather content related to that particular business in one place. One might find photos, coupons, reviews, etc. on the Place Page.
NBC Launches Social Media Game On Facebook And Twitter
NBC is introducing a new social media game aimed at promoting the network’s series "Chuck" by getting fans to spread the word about the program on social networking sites.
The game called "Mission: Chuck Me Out" allows fans to use Facebook, Twitter and MySpace or the Chuck Me Out website to talk about the show.
November Online Video Trends A Mixed Bag
The latest numbers regarding online video viewing are in from Nielsen, and they reveal some interesting trends. In effect, things are looking good on a year-over-year basis, but stacked up against October, November didn’t go so well.
Viewing Google Image Search Results All on One Page
Remember when Microsoft’s Bing launched and one of the features that really caught people’s attention was the interface of its image search feature? It was unique in that you could simply scroll down on the results page infinitely. You didn’t have to go to multiple pages to find more images. You just kept scrolling. Google is now testing such a feature for its own image search results.
Facebook Wants You To Post to Twitter
This week Facebook will reportedly be rolling out the ability to send status updates to Twitter directly from the publisher box. There are apps that cater to the cross-posting of updates between the two social networks, but this would mark the first time Facebook itself actually encouraged it.