Aug
15
Taking Social Networks Abroad - Why MySpace and Facebook are Failing in Japan
Submitted by Matt Stapleton on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 02:26
As successful as the large social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace are, the majority of their members are from the US (and to a somewhat lesser extent, other English-speaking countries).
Facebook has well over 100 million members. To give some perspective, the population of the US is roughly 300 million, the global population is around 7 billion. That leaves enormous room for growth internationally, but also raises a few questions.
Feb
6
Google Releases New Link Reporting Tools
Submitted by Matt Stapleton on Tue, 02/06/2007 - 12:54
For years, Google's link: command has deliberately failed to show all the links to a website. This came out of Google's fear that site owners simply wanted the data to try and manipulate rankings -- which was pretty true. Instead, they only provided a sampling of backlinks. Today, that changes. Google Webmaster Central is rolling out new ... read more | digg story
Feb
4
Leveraging User-Generated Content
Submitted by Matt Stapleton on Sun, 02/04/2007 - 03:10
According to Forrester Research, user-generated content (UGC) is being created by approximately one-quarter of online consumers. Are you tapping into the massive power of 2.0 users? read more | digg story
