Foursquare reaches 10 million users
Foursquare reached a major milestone: 10 million members. So much for the idea of Facebook Places killing Foursquare. Foursquare is now the first location-based social network to reach 10 million users. To celebrate the occasion, they put together an infographic to illustrate their impressive growth over the past couple of years. Click here to view the infographic. Some of the interesting highlights: It took foursquare five months to get its first 100,000 users and seven weeks to get its last million. 358 million checkins have been made outside of the U.S. The most popular checkin...
Read MoreHow different will our online lives be in 2015?
2015 is only 4 years away – but have you thought about what our online / digital life will be like? The video above – which is nicely put together – highlights facts / figures of our online activity today and predictions of what it will look like in 2015. The piece of this video that was most interesting to me was the mobile phone usage. People accessing the internet via their mobile phone will grow from 14 million in 2010 to 788 million by 2015 and the number of smartphones will rise from about 500 million today to 2.5 billion in 2015. What are your predictions for...
Read MoreWhat’s on my iPhone home screen [June 2011]
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Back in March, I posted about what was on my iPhone home screen (click here to see what my iPhone looked like in April) – so I decided to update the post with how my home screen has changed in the past few months. Here are the new additions to the home screen: GroupMe: This app lets you group text with the people in your life that are important to you. I use this app with a group of golfing buddies. We’re able to easily communicate with each other to set up our golfing plans for the weekend. Thanks to @RichardPaulGuy for setting us up on GroupMe. Cost: FREE MLB At Bat 11: For...
Read MoreCan you watch TV without your phone?
If you can, then you’re in the minority based on a recent study conducted by IPG Media Lab and YuMe. The small scale study found that 60 percent of television watchers play with their cell phones while watching TV. In addition, 33 percent used their laptops and 12 percent did some sort of work while watching TV. Read more at Business Insider. Blog #114 of 365 of...
Read More33% of Facebook Posts via Mobile Phone
According to research compiled by Dan Zarrella, 33% of Facebook posts come from mobile devices. What was so surprising about this research was that majority of these updates came through m.facebook.com, and not through smartphone devices like the iPhone, Android, etc. I imagine that mobile Facebook usage will continue to climb in the future. What do you think of this data? Blog #108 of 365 of...
Read MoreThe Mobile Movement
Google released findings of an interesting smartphone-user study. The findings, which are illustrated in the video above, come from research conducted at the end of 2010 among 5,013 smartphone users. Google commissioned this research with the objectives to better understand how smartphones are used in consumers’ daily lives and how smartphones have influenced the ways consumers search, shop and respond to mobile advertising. Blog #102 of 365 of...
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