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Comscore has just published a review of internet trends in 2009 and it is jam packed full of interesting stats (link to download here). I’m going to pull out just one here, but if you have a broad interest in how the internet is developing the whole paper is well worth a read.
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For all the talk about Facebook’s value, the decline of Myspace and Bebo, and Twitter’s flattening website traffic you could be forgiven for thinking that social networking was yesterday’s story. In fact, as the Nielsen charts below show, the truth is very different, and they actually grew faster in 2009 than they did in [...]
I’m at the Le Web conference in Paris for the next couple of days and this morning I caught a panel chaired by Mike Arrington with the platform people from Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, LinkedIn, Ning and Six Apart.
The first observation is that these companies have been very successful in getting people to use [...]
The FT has a great article this morning entitled Friends, not editors, shape internet habits which charts the rise in importance of Twitter and Facebook as news filtering services. When I wrote about the changing face of news provision on paidcontent last week one problem for traditional businesses I didn’t mention is that the [...]
The news this morning that Facebook will soon enable people to syndicate upadates from pages from Facebook to Twitter got me thinking that as social networks become more open ownership of the social graph is getting less important.
In the first phase of social networking everything was closed, meaning that [...]
There is an article in the FT today that asks whether Facebook is a “web phenomenon on the cusp of greatness or just a social craze?”, and as we’ve discussed here before the last thing any of us needs is for it to turn out to be a fad.
I think it is just [...]
May’s Comscore data, reported yesterday on Techcrunch, has two pieces of bad news for Myspace:
After passing Myspace on a worldwide basis last year Facebook is now also larger than it’s main rival in the US Perhaps more worrying for Myspace owners News International the site is also now going backwards, losing 700k [...]
Consumer internet is not a very popular place to be right now – the advertising market is difficult (although I sense getting a little easier) and the profitability challenges of Facebook and YouTube, plus the history of Bebo post the AOL acquisition and Myspace post the high point of their Google search deal, have [...]
ReadWriteWeb broke the news a couple of days ago that Facebook is going to allow users to log in with their OpenID credentials granted by other sites, such as GMail, AOL, Yahoo, or dedicated OpenID providers. You’ve probably seen this on other sites and the main benefit of reducing the number of [...]
Speaking on an a conference call with shareholders and analysts today Rupert said (from CNN):
We are now in the midst of an epochal debate over the value of content and it is clear to many newspapers that the current model is malfunctioning. We have been at the forefront of that debate and you [...]
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