Only 13% of Wikipedia Contributors Are Women, Study Says
Filed Under (Wall Street) by Admin on 31-08-2009
A broad new survey of Wikipedia users found that only 13% of the online encyclopedia’s contributors are women.
Details of Kennedy Funeral Include Twitter Account
Filed Under (Wall Street) by Admin on 29-08-2009
From Washington Wire’s Susan Davis:
10 Things I Hate About Branding
Filed Under (Small Business) by Admin on 29-08-2009
ONE:
Frankly it takes a lot of work to stay on top of my brand. If only I could just push a button like the Staples “Easy Button” ( which I have on my desk). I hate that I can’t!
Lessons for Apple in Social Media: Unlike A Rolling Stone A Good Blog Post Continues To Gather Stories
Filed Under (Silicon Valley) by Admin on 29-08-2009
Five weeks ago I wrote: Apple Rant: AppleCare = Shoddy Service - Apple Arrogance?. At the time it quickly attracted a bunch of comments, many of them sharing bad experiences with Apple’s AppleCare.
Facebook to Nonprofits: More Pages, Fewer Apps
Filed Under (Wall Street) by Admin on 28-08-2009
Nonprofit organizations seeking to harness Facebook can get the most bang for their buck by using fan pages in addition to groups, streamlining their app usage and livening things up, one of its marketing execs said Friday.
Web 2.0 News Sites: Mashable Overtakes Techcrunch
Filed Under (Silicon Valley) by Admin on 28-08-2009
Here is an interesting graph of traffic from Compete.com which shows excellent growth for Mashable, overtaking Techcrunch.
Live-Blogging Dell Earnings
Filed Under (Wall Street) by Admin on 28-08-2009
Dell’s fiscal second-quarter earnings dropped 23%, following a similar decline by rival PC maker Hewlett-Packard. Dell’s revenue fell 22%, weighed down by weak PC sales.
LendingTree Suit Claims Google Is Getting Into Mortgages
Filed Under (Wall Street) by Admin on 27-08-2009
A suit filed on Tuesday by online mortgage company LendingTree relies on a provocative premise: Google is getting into the loan aggregation business.
New Study - Does Social Media Influence Business Decisions?
Filed Under (Silicon Valley) by Admin on 27-08-2009
[Here is a guest post from Don Bulmer, Vice President, Global Communications Industry and Influencer Relations at SAP. He is also a Research Fellow at the Society For New Communications Research (SNCR), a Palo Alto based think tank. I'm a founding fellow of SNCR.]
YouTube To Share Ad Revenue With One-Hit Wonders
Filed Under (Wall Street) by Admin on 26-08-2009
YouTube made David After Dentist famous. Now its also helping to make him rich — or, at least, a little more wealthy.