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5 Minutes of Facebook Celebrity
February 04, 2010
Notice anything different about your friends on Facebook? Suddenly they all look a bit more like celebrities! The latest trend to hit Facebook has been to replace your profile picture with one of your celebrity doppelganger. Last week, the top... Continue reading...
Posted by Heather Dougherty at 07:00 PM
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In Categories Facebook | Social Media | Social Networking
Facebook Largest News Reader?
February 03, 2010
Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read Write Web had an interesting piece suggesting that Facebook could become the world's leading news reader. A recent Facebook company blog entry encouraged members to set up a news feed on Facebook. Kirkpatrick contends that with... Continue reading...
Posted by Heather Hopkins at 06:06 PM
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In Categories News and Media | Social Networks
Social network impact for retailers
January 29, 2010
Social networking has become the most popular activity online and visits to the category represented 13% of all US Internet visits in December. As the social networking audience continues to grow, the category has become a major source of traffic... Continue reading...
Posted by Heather Dougherty at 08:40 PM
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In Categories Facebook | Holiday | Retail | Social Media | Social Networking
Affluent shoppers increase during holidays
January 28, 2010
Last week, during our Holiday Recap webinar, we examined how the demographic profiles of the visitors to the Retail 500 shifted in 2009 as compared to the previous year. When looking at the household income of visitors during the peak... Continue reading...
Posted by Heather Dougherty at 06:40 PM
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In Categories Holiday | Retail | fashion
Nexus One Appealing to Wealthy. Purchase Intent Seems High.
January 21, 2010
Google's Nexus One phone is a direct competitor to Apple's iPhone and the battle lines are being drawn. As illustrated below, the launch of the Nexus One attracted a great deal of excitement online, with searches for "nexus one" accounting... Continue reading...
Posted by Heather Hopkins at 06:14 PM
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In Categories Shopping & Classifieds
YouTube Launching Movie Rentals
An announcement came out yesterday that YouTube is going to begin testing movie rentals starting Friday with movies from the Sundance Film Festival. This move represents a new opportunity for YouTube to generate revenue in addition to advertising with its’... Continue reading...
Posted by Heather Dougherty at 02:53 PM
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In Categories Apple | Entertainment | Video | YouTube
Canadians Searching for Winter Escapes
January 19, 2010
With no end in sight to winter and the charm of the ever-mounting snow banks wearing off, Canadians are turning to the web to book winter escapes. Visits to Travel websites have seen a sharp increase over the past two... Continue reading...
Posted by Heather Hopkins at 06:39 PM
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In Categories Canadian Insights | Travel
Haiti Earthquake Relief - News Sites are Major Traffic Driver
January 15, 2010
With the devastating earthquake in Haiti on Tuesday, you would expect that traffic to charitable websites would register an increase. The chart below shows daily visits to the top 325 sites in our Community - Humanitarian websites. While search continues... Continue reading...