Ivan's posterous

StumbleUpon Surpasses Facebook For Social Media Traffic Generation

via Driving Traffic by Ryan Deiss on 1/10/11

I’ve blogged about StumbleUpon before, and here they are again making another splash by passing up Facebook as the top Social Media Traffic Generator again.  I know it can be somewhat un-targeted traffic, but in this quantity, it’s worth noting.

How can a site with 12 million users send more traffic than a site with 600 million users? When your site is specifically designed to do nothing but send traffic. StumbleUpon may be small compared to sites like Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace, but it sends the most social media traffic around the web according to the latest numbers by StatCounter.

StumbleUpon CEO Garrett Camp is excited about it, announcing it to the world via Twitter at 1am EST this morning:

StumbleUpon is one of the only companies that is designed to keep you away from their own website. By its very nature, StumbleUpon takes you everywhere else based upon your interests, stumbling habits, friends, and what’s hot in the Internet. Using an installed Toolbar or a browser frame, users “stumble” websites, stories, videos, and pictures, not knowing where they’ll be going next.

What resources are you using to utilize stumble upon? comment below!

New hyperlocal ad feature helps you find nearby businesses

via Google Mobile Blog by Lawrence Chang on 9/29/10

Imagine driving to work and your Check Engine light comes on. After pulling over and calling a tow truck, you realize you’ll need another car to get to work while yours is getting repaired. You pull out your phone and search for “car rental,” hoping that you can find one nearby. From a Google search ad result you discover there’s an Enterprise Rent-A-Car location just half-a-mile away! You click on the phone number listed in the ad and are instantly connected with the car rental service. Soon, an Enterprise representative is on his way to pick you up.


Visit the Google Mobile Ads blog to read more about how a new hyperlocal ad feature provides distance information to help you know a business is nearby and helps businesses better connect with mobile users on the go.

Posted by Surojit Chatterjee, Google Mobile Ads Product Manager

New hyperlocal ad feature helps you find nearby businesses

via Google Mobile Blog by Lawrence Chang on 9/29/10

Imagine driving to work and your Check Engine light comes on. After pulling over and calling a tow truck, you realize you’ll need another car to get to work while yours is getting repaired. You pull out your phone and search for “car rental,” hoping that you can find one nearby. From a Google search ad result you discover there’s an Enterprise Rent-A-Car location just half-a-mile away! You click on the phone number listed in the ad and are instantly connected with the car rental service. Soon, an Enterprise representative is on his way to pick you up.


Visit the Google Mobile Ads blog to read more about how a new hyperlocal ad feature provides distance information to help you know a business is nearby and helps businesses better connect with mobile users on the go.

Posted by Surojit Chatterjee, Google Mobile Ads Product Manager

Google’s reveals mobile ad revenues of $1bn to help woo big advertisers to m...

via mobiThinking - Mobile Marketing Mojo™ by Editor on 10/17/10

Talk of US $1bn annual revenues from mobile ad revenues lured mobiThinking into listening to the Google Q3 earnings call as the information wasn’t published in the press release or the accounts. Amazingly for an earnings call, it was compulsive listening. Despite making substantial disclosures about display, video and mobile advertising, mobile monopolized the agenda. Mobile may just be an emerging market for Google, but the company – and the analysts that ask the questions – clearly believes this is the future.

read more

More Details on Facebook & PayPal

via TechCrunch by Jason Kincaid on 2/18/10

Over the last year or so, Facebook has been gradually ramping up its Credits system, which for a long time was used just to purchase virtual gifts (now you can use it to buy real gifts, songs, and it’s been integrated with some applications). Today comes news that will make it even easier to buy Facebook Credits: you’ll be able to buy them with PayPal.

The new partnership actually encompasses a few areas of Facebook’s payments. Along with Facebook Credits, you’ll be able to use PayPal to purchase Facebook Ads.

This is big news for both companies. PayPal has been trying to establish a greater presence in micropayments and on Facebook itself. And Facebook will now make it easier for PayPal’s 81 million users to quickly stock up on ads and buy its credits, which are only going to become more important on the site going forward. Other payment options for Facebook include standard credit cards and mobile phones (using Zong).

One other reason why this is interesting: given Facebook’s interest in extending itself beyond Facebook.com through services like Facebook Connect, it wouldn’t be surprising if it started prompting people to start “Paying With Facebook” on external sites, which would make it competitive with PayPal.  Given how nascent Facebook payments are this would likely be a long ways off (if it’s even coming).

Note: I made the image above, so the payment screen may look a bit different.

Stereo "Soul" – A Visualization by Jukka Metsavanio

via Universe Today by Tammy Plotner on 2/15/10

Seeing double? Darn right you are. It's been awhile since I've featured any of Jukka Metsavanio's brilliant visualizations… and things have gotten even more incredible since. Step inside and prepare to get blown away by "Stereo Soul"… (...)
Read the rest of Stereo "Soul" – A Visualization by Jukka Metsavanio (230 words)

© tammy for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us
Post tags:

Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh