Just like American and European markets have shown a healthy response towards social media growing trend, Asian markets have come out as a surprise package, generating one of the greatest demands for social networking industry. For a majority of online Indians, spent time on the social media sites has now become part of their everyday life, according to a study on social media usage by The Nielsen Company conducted in collaboration with AbsolutData. Nearly 30 … [Read more...]
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The Future Workforce Students and Information Technology
Want to know how the future workforce students use certain type of technology, e.g. search engines, social networking, online collaborative tools, as well as handheld devices both in and outside classroom? In recent study that based on a survey from the spring of 2010 of over 36,950 freshmen and seniors at 100 four-year institutions and students at 27 two-year institutions, The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2010 gives some excellent … [Read more...]
Is Facebook Sucking Up Your Life?
No, I don't think so, I think the most correct way to put might be facebook could very well be sucking up the time you spend on the Internet. According to its 2010 "What Americans Do Online" report, Nielsenarticle found that Americans spend 22.7 percent of Internet time on social networks. That's up 43 percent from last year. Social networking continues to displace other Internet activities, topping the troika of most popular pursuits. "Despite the almost … [Read more...]
Mobile Content Usage on Increase is Good for Bloggers
Comscore recently released data from the comScore MobiLens service about key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending May 2010 compared to the preceding three-month average. The percentage towards user browsers, accessing of social networking sites and blogs are increased – between 2.3 and 2.6% respectively that in relative to the preceding three-month average, which are good news for bloggers! Here’s the Mobile … [Read more...]
Can Information Technology Make People Happier?
In general, men are stereotyped as gadget hounds, well, a global study from BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, shows that information technology actually brings more happiness to women worldwide, and said access to information technology has a 'statistically significant, positive impact on life satisfaction'. A new study (PDF) from UK-based BCS that based on data collected from more than 35,000 survey respondents across the globe found that IT actually makes people … [Read more...]
Social Activities Blur Personal and Professional
Social media usage has soared not just among the general population but also among at-work Internet users, who are heading to the sites for both personal and professional reasons in greater numbers. In recent survey FaceTime Communication showed social media and Web 2.0 applications have been adopted by 99% of end users to support business processes, even though 38% of IT professionals believe there is no social networking present on their networks. Social … [Read more...]
Are You Google Buzz Too?
When I login to my gmail account yesterday, a big screen pop up, wow, Google Buzz! Follow by its instruction, I learn that Google has add social-networking features into Gmail as it attempts to jump-start its social Web strategy. Actually they are marrying the Gmail Web interface with status updates and media-sharing technology in an attempt to convince the social media addicts of the world to spend more time on Google's sites than on competitors like Facebook or … [Read more...]
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