by Scott Judson
Owner of Judson Steel, an iOS development studio based in Auckland
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Facebook planning to release smartphone by 2013
With the strength of social and mobile games, a Facebook Smartphone could have significant implications for the games market.
In case you need some help figuring out why Facebook would want to buy Instagram, this chart from 1000memories’ post, how many photos have ever been taken?, should help.
In a nut: photos are kind of a thing on Facebook, and Instagram is kind of a thing for photos.
Expeerience is a Pinterest-style Twitter for experiences. Users can snap photos and videos of their experiences and add them to collections, which can be configured to auto-sync with Facebook albums. Posts can be hash tagged and shared with the world for others to discover. Any photos or videos that appeal to a user can be collected into their own personal collections. Users can search the network to experience moments in time they may have missed or didn’t have the chance to capture in person.
Exclusive: Instagram-Facebook Deal Nets CEO Nearly Half a Billion
$1 billion, nice haul…
(Source: Wired)
Facebook has 845 million active users globally — about 54% of the world’s online population.
It’s also winning the social media popularity contest in terms of time spent on the site. Facebook users scrolled through their news feed, gawked at photos of friends and played games like Farmville for an average of 423 minutes in December of last year.
Tumblr came in second (151 minutes) and Pinterest third (80 minutes). To some surprise, MySpace (13 minutes) beat out Google (5 minutes). (via Pew: Recommendations on Social Media Not Yet Driving News Traffic)
Developers at companies supported by the fbStart partner firms will get an advanced look at new tools and features Facebook is creating for its site. In return, Facebook hopes that some of those start-ups could eventually build a business around its platform. (via Facebook Courts Start-Up Investors With fbStart Program - WSJ.com)
Wrapp provides free gift certificates that can be posted on friends’ Facebook walls. (via Wrapp Lets You Post Free Gift Certificates On Friends’ Walls)
The Importance of Facebook Cannot be Overstated
Selected slides from a larger comScore deck examining global social networking, microblogging and mobile trends. Select any thumbnail to embiggen.
In related news, it’s estimated that Facebook will attract its 1 billionth user this August. That’s 14 percent of the global population.
Images: via comScore.
(Source: futurejournalismproject)
Facebook Makes Up 52% of Social Sharing
Via AdAge:
AddThis, the sharing platform owned by Clearspring, is huge (or uuuuuugggggge, as Donald Trump would say). It’s used by more than 11 million sites, which gives it aggregate sharing data for more than 1.2 billion users — and a bird’s-eye view of the relative popularity and influence of everything from a Facebook Like to a click on a Google +1 button…
…For now, some notes and context on the graphics:
- According to AddThis data, Facebook accounts for 52.1% of sharing. Given the size of AddThis’ data set, that number’s probably a solid proxy for sharing across the entire web.
- Twitter was up 577% this year and accounts for 13.5% of sharing, per AddThis Analytics.
- Usage of Google’s +1 button grew in 2011 but has plateaued, according to AddThis. And if you want to feel bad for Digg and MySpace, just take a look at their depressing shrinkage numbers.
Image: Detail from Social Sharing Trends 2011.
(Source: futurejournalismproject)
