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Realtime Olympics: 60% of London 2012 Visits Came Via Mobile; Facebook Was 2nd Highest Traffic Source

The Realtime Report

A new compilation of stats from the 2012 Olympic Games reveals that 60% of visits to the official London 2012 Games website and apps came from mobile devices. The London 2012 stats – showing engagement across 77 digital products - were compiled by Alex Balfour, the head of new media for London 2012.

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Big data: seeing the forest and the trees

Sherrilynne Starkie

Young explained how a German green party politician took Deutsche Telecom to court to get his own cellphone data and realised that there were some 35,000 pieces of data held for 2012. With Foursquare, a user could look to find people who are close by, like a woman in a nearby bar for instance. PLEASE LIKE MY FACEBOOK PAGE.

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Monday’s 5 Social Media Must-Reads

Firebelly

Google+ To Take On Foursquare With Upcoming “Check-in Offers” Feature. By Sarah Perez It looks like Google+ is adding a feature that will allow users to “check-in” via the Google+ mobile application in order to receive a time-sensitive deal or discount. The State of Social Marketing 2011 – 2012.

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Facebook Graph Search: Why Investors Shouldn’t Worry

Mindjumpers

The fact that you can now look up who of your nearby friends you share interests with, also makes Graph Search a competitor to Google+’ recently launched Communities feature. But after Zuckerberg’s presentation of Graph Search, investors were not convinced by the new feature and how it could be monetised. Facebook stocks falling.

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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

Socialized

It took a lot of hacking and ingenuity to make these a reality since most consumer platforms lagged (but not by much) in features (think video finally coming to the iPhone) required for AR. Features and capabilities help grow a network’s user base in infancy; huge subscriber numbers grow it to adulthood. PowerPoint is ubiquitous.

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What Twitter could learn from Facebook Deals

Direct Marketing Observations

But in 2012 you cannot mention social media without a reference to 1) Facebook and 2) Twitter. Here’s the rub though… Twitter has appeared to have stalled with it’s growth, it’s user adoption and new features, while Facebook continues to enhance it’s feature set at a rapid rate.

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On Leadership, Courage. And Sucking

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I also find myself looking at the episodes of a podcast and choosing the episodes that feature themes or personalities that are familiar to me. So, I jump to the episodes featuring people like Chad Hurley , Tony Hsieh and Elon Musk and hold off on the names that aren't all that familiar to me. foursquare. and you should too.