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The Age of Mega Content Sites - Answers.com and Demand Media

Written by Richard MacManus / November 5, 2009 1:15 AM / 25 Comments

Two companies that produce massive quantities of new content every day, Answers.com and Demand Media, are rapidly moving up the list of top U.S. web properties, as measured by comScore. Continue reading »

eBay Launches Trend-Spotting Site Based on User Data

Written by Jolie O'Dell / November 4, 2009 4:10 PM / 0 Comments

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The Inside Source is eBay's latest announcement. The searching, buying, and selling habits of its 88 million active users have added up to an enormous dataset, one that could have Continue reading »

Online Video Embeds: It's All About YouTube

Written by Frederic Lardinois / November 4, 2009 11:00 AM / 0 Comments

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We know that online video continues to grow, but until now we had very little data about how bloggers engage with online video. Thanks to a new report from social Continue reading »

New Study Paints iPhone Owners as Materialistic, Fickle Egomaniacs

Written by Sarah Perez / November 4, 2009 7:57 AM / 21 Comments

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Are iPhone users really that bad? We're not buying it. It's odd that a consumer electronics shopping site would sponsor a study that paints such a lousy picture of iPhone Continue reading »

Apple Will Soon Overtake RIM in Consumer Smartphone Market

Written by Richard MacManus / November 1, 2009 9:09 PM / 8 Comments

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A new report by ChangeWave Research provides yet more evidence of the surge in consumer interest in smartphones; and of Apple's iPhone in particular. Last week we reported statistics from Continue reading »

Mobile Web's Explosive Growth

Written by Sarah Perez / October 29, 2009 7:15 AM / 7 Comments

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Mobile ad firm AdMob has revealed the dramatic changes the mobile industry has seen in their latest Mobile Metrics Report, released just this morning. Believe it or not, it was Continue reading »

Facebook U.S. Visits Increase 194% Over Past Year; Tagged is Beating Twitter?

Written by Sarah Perez / October 28, 2009 6:53 AM / 10 Comments

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New data released from Experian Hitwise reconfirms what we've known for some time: Facebook is killing the other social networks. Nowhere is that more true than here in the U.S. Continue reading »

Wolfram Alpha's $50 iPhone App: Too Expensive or Worth the Extra Money for the Premium Experience?

Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 23, 2009 12:44 PM / 15 Comments

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When Wolfram Research released its iPhone app for Wolfram Alpha earlier this week, most of the attention quickly shifted away from the features of the app itself and towards the Continue reading »

Watch Out Trolls, Your Menacing Comments Could Lead to Big Fines

Written by Sarah Perez / October 23, 2009 7:44 AM / 24 Comments

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Two former Yale University law students have settled their suit brought against some 30-plus anonymous commenters who posted derogatory remarks about them on an internet forum called AutoAdmit. The comments, Continue reading »

Gmail Users are Young, Female; AOL Users are Older

Written by Sarah Perez / October 22, 2009 8:34 AM / 10 Comments

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Social media data company Rapleaf has just completed a comprehensive study involving the demographics and behavior of webmail users. In the first part of their study, they looked specifically at Continue reading »

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