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Category: e-marketing & internet

  • Consumers spend two hours more by month on Social Networks as FACEBOOK (vs. LY)

    Interesting reading from Nielsen on the Social Newtorks (10 countries measured) Some key-learning’s : Global web users across 10 countries spent roughly five and a half hours on social networks in February 2010, This is up more than two hours from the same time last year. Top 3 countries are US, Italia and Australia. Overall, the

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  • What is the impact of Twitter & Facebook on buying intention of a brand ?

    Very interesting study done by Chadwick Martin Bailey and iModerate Research Technologies.  This study shows that those who are fans or followers of a brand on Facebook or Twitter, respectively, are significantly more likely to buy products and services or recommend the brand to a friend. Some key-learning’s : The consumers are 67% more likely to

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  • What are the TOP 100 Internet Sites ?

    To get a rough estimate of how the Internet is actually being used, the BBC charted the top 100 sites by unique users in January 2010. The data used to generate the interactive treemap visualisation were collected by the Nielsen company and covers the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Brazil, US and Australia. The

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  • Who are the top 15 World’s Tech Billionaire ?

    Who are the top 15 of the list from Forbes List of World’s Tech Billionaire ? Forbes has released its annual list of the world’s billionaires. Bill Gates has once again been displaced as the world’s richest man — this time by Carlos Slim. Facebook  founder Mark Zuckerberg, has rejoined, at #212 with an estimated

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  • How is Internet Changing Advertising ?

    Check-out this video showing how the Internet is changing advertising. Epipheo Studios presents “How the Internet is Changing Advertising”, a short history of communication and how the internet is a new medium that has thrown out the old rules of communication.   New technology demands a new way to communicate.  The internet is built around people

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  • Are you growing or NOT ? Check out the Nielsen Figures across Europe.

    A good reading in Nielsen Wire regarding Nominal Growth in Europe. This is based on FMCG products tracked by Nielsen, in Europe. As you can see on the chart here-below,  Nominal growth has remained stable around 3% for four consecutive quarters. The fourth quarter of 2009 has shown nominal growth at 2.9%, once again outperforming

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  • Are you in the CLOUD ?

    Today, we are all using services which are in the cloud. But what does it mean ? Steve Ballmer discussed, last week with students from Washington Universities,  what’s ahead for computing, with a focus on how cloud computing that will change the way people and businesses use technology. To know more on this, just click HERE

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  • Any idea how fast Internet has grown in you region ? Just use this WW Interactive Chart to discover that !

    BBC News has a very cool interactive chart. This chart shows how Internet had grown from 1998 to 2008 in various parts of the world. In 1998, the only countries with significant Internet usage were USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark and Sweden. You can see how quickly Western Europe adopted the

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  • 50 Ways to Take Your Blog to the Next Level

    Very good reading from Chris Brogan. Just click HERE to take a look at the original article. I will take some inspiration and will come back with the things / tips that have been the most efficient for me BLOG.

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  • Great Video showing State of the Internet.

    Cool video, posted by Jesse Thomas,  on State of the Internet. This video highlights some remarkable figures and visually depicts the Internet as we know it today. This is amazing to see how fast it moves and how immersed web technologies have become in our everyday lives.  There are 1.73 billion Internet users worldwide as of

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  • How old is the average Twitter or Facebook user?

    How old is the average Twitter or Facebook user? What about all the other social network sites, like MySpace, LinkedIn, and so on?  How is age distributed across the millions and millions of social network users out there? To find out, you will find here-below age statistics for 19 different social network sites. For more details on

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  • New alliance between Yahoo and Microsoft : Today, this is the final clearance from the European Commission.

    The Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance combines the complementary strengths of Yahoo! and Microsoft to create a competitive choice in search with the scale to fuel sustained development. Both companies aim to ultimately enable searchers to find relevant results faster, and provide more value for advertisers and better results for web publishers. If you look

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  • Outlook integrates social-network as Linkedin and Facebook.

    This Wednesday, Microsoft issued beta software that brings social-network information into Outlook. The product, called Outlook Social Connector, has been available in the Office 2010 beta. Go to  Outlook Social Connector download site and you will discover that the new version works with Outlook 2003 and 2007 and connects with social-network partners, which wasn’t the case

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  • What consumer is ready to pay for online ?

    Movies, music, and games top a new list from Nielsen of the content types that consumers are most willing to pay for online. Indeed, online content for which consumers are most likely to pay—or have already paid—are those they normally pay for offline. The data, which comes from a survey of 27,000 consumers across 52

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  • Visualize 6 Years of Facebook. Impressive !

    Facebook was launched on February 4, 2004. Facebook has undoubtedly become the world’s largest social network, with over 400 million users worldwide and more than 900 employees. Let’s take a closer look at what kinds of numbers and user activity this growth translates to. The infographic here-above explores Facebook’s growth over the past 6 years.

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  • The conversation Prism

    The Conversation Prism by Brian Solis and Jesse Thomas Wondering how Facebook, flickr, YouTube, wordress or other social media fit with your marketing strategy?   It’s all about conversation.  Brian and Jesse had nicely illustrated the different elements of the great social conversation stream. I really like the term ‘The Conversation’. Indeed, there is one global conversation stream

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  • European Safer Internet Day : very good initiative !

    Today, at the occasion of the European Safer Internet Day, I’ve taken  part to an Employee Volunteering action together with my Belgian colleagues. If you want to know more about this nitiative, just click HERE I’ve visited the school of my kids. By the way, this was also my school 🙂 This was a great opportunity to explain

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  • Internet 2009 in numbers

    Take a look at these numbers. This is really amazing ! This is clear, the world is changing fast.  90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009. 247 billion – Average number of email messages per day. 81% – The percentage of emails that were spam. 234 million – The

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  • 12 reasons NOT to buy an Apple iPad

     I’ve read a very interesting BLOG from Joe Wilcox after the relase of IPad. Look also at this video: Here-below, a short summary of the 12 reasons why he is not going to buy an iPad. To be honest, this list makes sense. I also agree with  Samuel Axon, who writes at Mashable: “The iPad

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