eBay competitor Bonanzle recently told us the company was approaching several milestones, one of these being welcoming its 100,000th registered user. The company announced today that they have surpassed that one. In fact, they did it earlier this week on September 14, just barely a year after the site launched.
The Number Of Tweets Is Rising
While a lot of the talk around Twitter is hype and hyperbole and anything else that is based in theory there are some real numbers that Twitter can point to that are hard to ignore. In June, according to comScore as reported by TechCrunch Twitter had 44.5 million visitors to the site. This is a pretty large number on its own, placing it ahead of ESPN and just shy of Craig’s List as well as the BBC’s site.
Report: Bing Replaces Yahoo as Number 2
Research reported by StatCounter says that Microsoft’s new Bing search engine has taken over Yahoo for the second place slot in search market share. Clearly, it’s getting a lot of attention since it just launched, so let’s keep this in context.
Yahoo Aims to Reduce the Number of Sites You Frequent
Yahoo announced today that users of Yahoo Mail, My Yahoo, Yahoo Connected TV and Zimbra email will find a number of new third-party apps and widgets that will give them quicker access to things they do online everyday.
To put this in perspective, Yahoo says that in the US, an average of 85 sites are visited per person, per month. The idea is that if you use these apps and widgets on Yahoo sites, you won’t have to go to all of those other sites. The company offers the following slideshow:
Why Yahoo News Was Number One on Election Night
You may have heard that Yahoo News was the most popular site on the night of the United States Presidntial Election ten days ago. Now comScore has confirmed this along with some numbers for other sources making up the top five:
>1 Is The Lonliest Number
A lot of my recent speaking engagements at both Search Engine Strategies and SMX have been geared towards running an SEO company, dealing with a changing economic landscape and similar issues. It is with this in mind that I got thinking about what separates one company from another. There are many great SEO and SEM firms out there, I like to think that Beanstalk is among them but there are also a number of poor ones. What separates the two and why will some succeed and others fail?
Newspaper Web Sites Attract Record Number Of Visitors
Newspaper Web sites received more than 66.4 million unique visitors on average (40.7 percent of all Internet users) in the first quarter of 2008, a record number that is a 12.3 percent increase over the same period a year ago, according to an analysis from Nielsen Online for the Newspaper Association of America (NAA).
iTunes Becomes Number 2 Music Seller In U.S.
The amount of music that consumers purchased in the U.S. rose by 6 percent in 2007, according to The NPD Group.An increase in digital download revenues was not able to make up for the decline in CD sales, which resulted in a net 10 percent decline in music spending (from $44 to $40 per capita among Internet users).
Badoo’s ‘Rise Up’: Number One For A Buck
In a world where venture capitalists throw millions at startups, social networking site Badoo is happy with a dollar/euro/pound at a time.
Number Of Older (Online) Shoppers Surges
As the holiday season draws nearer, you’ll see them at malls and retail stores in increasing numbers: older people with long shopping lists. But people at or over the age of 55 are increasingly likely to spend money online, too.