A recent comScore report (September 2010) found that 58.7 Teens current text messaging behavior: Nielsen’s Q2 2010 teen survey (ages 13-17) demonstrates that while text messaging behavior is still growing among all age groups, text messaging among teens, especially teen females is reaching new levels (female teens send and receive an average of 4,050 texts per month versus  an average of 2,539 texts per males). This increase is the largest jump among all age groups. million people in the U.S. owned smartphones (up 15% from the preceding three month period). increase). MORE >>

But here’s one example, if I were to take a list of sites – any list  – could be Comscore ‘s 50,000 or so sites, or just any list all of blogs, message boards , photo sharing sites, main stream media outlets, whatever, and run a set of pre canned queries on them while counting the results, I could tell you how relevant they were on the subject of that query.   Occurred to me recently that Google can be, under certain conditions, an excellent tool to categorize sites and media properties with, though I realize it will not work in every case.   MORE >>

All age groups continue to jump on the social networking bandwagon, and young adults still dominate. By way of comparison, 76% of users 18 to 29 used social nets in 2009 and this group’s usage rose to 86% this year. pamorama marketing, life, social media Home About Bookshelf Links Contact Social Media and Older Adults by Pam Dyer on August 31, 2010 Share Pew has just released the latest results from its Internet and American Life Project survey, which found that the fastest growing demographic adopting social media is people over 50. link] Anonymous I agree to this. MORE >>

The drop in the time spent on using web-based email, including Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail, is steep in India, next only to Malaysia, among countries in the Asia-Pacific region, according to figures released recently by comScore, a global online audience measurement service. It is believed that mobile usage is partially responsible for web-based email decline, but unfortunately we don’t measure mobile usage in India at this time, so we can’t put figures to this hypothesis,” a comScore spokesperson said in response to this question. Ramachandran. MORE >>

also want to say, again, Compete’s Referral Analytics Traffic Dashboard was first born as an idea almost two years ago in a coversation I had with Eric Austrew where I suggested Compete.com had the potential to improve quite a bit by adding categorization (similar to what Comscore has). Two Levels: Category Referrals: The default view of the channel map shows you aggregated traffic from Compete’s Industry Groups and Categories. Tags: Compete.com Traffic Dashboard Compete compete.com comScore Data Google Google analytics Product Manager Search Social Media MORE >>