Twitter turned three years old this weekend, and to hear some people tell it, the service is on a path that’ll have it taking over the world in no time. But comparisons to a sort of kinder, less articulate Stewie Griffin may be a little premature, since it turns out Twitter hasn’t measured up to two other companies.
A couple…
Skype has announced a beta version of its calling service for business users.
The new service, called Skype for SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) allows workers to make calls with traditional telephones, instead of a headset hooked up to a computer.
Skype for SIP will cost about 2.1 cents per minute for calls to cellphones and landlines. Calls to phone systems…
Facebook has started including updates from Pages in the news feed. While some of the pages users were already subscribed to are not showing up at this point, any they subscribe to from now on will (unless users elect not to see the messages).
Facebook was already a great marketing tool. I’ve recently discussed a number of reasons why. But…
When the going gets tough, it’s possible that the tough go to Craigslist. A fresh report from Hitwise indicates that searchers have become extremely interested in the site, actually putting it ahead of MySpace and establishing it as the top U.S. search term for the middle of March.
Heather Dougherty writes, "U.S. searches on the term ‘craigslist’ have increased 105…
CBS has announced that its March Madness on Demand traffic is up 56 percent over last year for the first day of the first round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship.
The network said there were over 2.7 million unique visitors to its NCAA March Madness on Demand video player (56% growth) and a total of 2.8 million…
With the economic slowdown lay offs and unemployment, now is the best time to get into your own small business and live your dream life. There have always been debates on the economic model where large corporates have never been known as huge employment generators. With growing automation small businesses have now become the mantra as a potential employment source.…
WebProNews will be covering the Search Engine Strategies conference in New York starting Tuesday, March 24th. Mike McDonald and the WebProNews video crew will be on the scene and providing you with exclusive interviews.
Mike will interview personnel from Facebook, Google, MSN, etc. He’ll be talking to plenty of online marketing experts about specific trends and tactics that can ultimately…
Reports suggest that social networking is now more popular than email. Twitter in particular grew 33% in only a month according to Compete data. Skittles increased its own traffic by 1332% in one day after a campaign that sent Skittles.com directly to a Tweet-stream (the site has since moved to different strategies of a similar nature like a Facebook page…
I recently discussed Twitter as a great source of traffic to sites, but the even more popular Facebook can do and is doing the same thing. In fact, reports have Facebook driving even more traffic than Google to some big-name sites.
Facebook gets over a third of the number of unique visitors that Google does according to comScore. And it…
After YouTube contacted WebProNews to announce the launch of YouTube Insight’s new engagement analytics features, We were able to score an informative Q&A session with YouTube product manager Tracy Chan.
Chan talks about the past, present, and future of YouTube’s analytics tool YouTube Insight, and details many ways in which businesses can utilize YouTube (which is the 2nd largest search…