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Best Quora Guides and Insights of 2011

Webbiquity SMM

According to Compete.com, traffic to the site did fall off sharply in February and March of 2011 after an initial surge, but has rebounded to new highs since then (though half a million unique visitors per month isn’t particularly impressive for a social media site). Will it go the way of MySpace?

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Sean Parker on Google+

Idaconcpts

17, 2011, Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney asked Sean Parker (Spotify, Napster, Facebook): “What’s the chance you think that 3 or 5 years from now Google+ really takes share from Facebook? So Facebook would have to screw up royally and Google would have to do something really smart. So I think it can happen.

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Flashback: What Social Was Like in 2010 vs. 2020

Ignite Social Media

Facebook becomes the 3 rd largest web company in the US behind Google and Amazon, where it still sits in 2020. Hashtags don’t exist for the first few months (they don’t make their debut on Instagram until 2011). Facebook introduces liking individual comments. Honorable Mentions.

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Why More Members, Money, and Ads Don’t Always Mean More Success: A B2B Marketer’s Survival Guide

Webbiquity SMM

So the question is–are there things that today’s B2B marketers can learn from history, specifically, the tremendous success of Facebook and the rise, fall and possible resurrection of Myspace? From its founding, Myspace took off like a rocket ship while Facebook had a much slower ascension from launch. My answer is certainly–yes!

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The State of Social Media In The UK

Mindjumpers

But before starting this, it is always good to look back at how 2011 has been for our different sites and then go on to predict how it would be in future. Tumblr is another platform to watch, with major growth during 2011 and Nielson’s third quarter report putting it at #2 in the UK by page views. The losers.

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Our Shifting Notion of Search, Social and Mobile.

Direct Marketing Observations

In 2000 Google was a 2 year old start-up still trying to create an identity and compete with Yahoo and MSN. Search is and has been woven into the fabric of our daily lives thanks to Google. Google has changed and redefined what search is for you, me and all the companies that rely on it for business. Take for example search.

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Monday’s 5 Social Media Must-Reads

Firebelly

There’s this feeling of Facebook becoming the next Friendster of MySpace. This is 2011 after all, a time when Google, smartphones and social media sites are making big-brand TV ads seem as dated as Duran Duran and shoulder pads in women’s suits. It’s part of the online circle of life.