The folks at G+ (not to be confused with Google+) have developed this infographic on the top technology trends of online for 2011. The list is topped with Group Buying, a technology that exploded earlier in the year and has now become a feature that virtually every community has copied and incorporated into their strategy. Geolocation applications, tablets, cloud-based productivity apps, online video in Enterprise, Online Q&A (including our clients at ChaCha!), Crowdfunding, and Mobile Photo Sharing Apps topped the … Continue reading
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Video: The World of Social Media 2011
In 2011, Facebook passed Google as the #1 most visited site on the internet with 11% of the world’s population and the average user having 130 friends spending 700 minutes a month on the network. Every 60 seconds 510,000 comments are posted, 293,000 status updates and 136,000 uploaded photos. The numbers are simply mind-boggling and continue to increase. Overseas where folks don’t have electricity or broadband, they use cars to charge their smartphones and connect via mobile phone. The world … Continue reading
Infographic: Is YouTube Killing TV?
Personally, I think we’ll have television around for my lifetime and then some. Unlike this infographic, I don’t believe that television is dead… I just think it’s going through a transformation. With hundreds of channels, the advent of Tivo and high bandwidth, what hurt television was the impact to commercials… not really YouTube. And the infographic below talks about Google’s share price, but neglects to show that YouTube doesn’t make any money, either! What is catching up, of course, is … Continue reading
YouTube Sidebar Widget WordPress Plugin
DK New Media recently released the YouTube Sidebar Widget WordPress plugin out into the wild. Doug wanted a way for his most recent marketing YouTube videos to be accessible from the Marketing Technology Blog’s sidebar. So we made just that. As you can probably tell from the name of the plugin, it is wigetized, and ready to drop into any WordPress theme that supports widgets. In the widget settings, you have the option to list a title for the section, … Continue reading



