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). According to Nielsen, teens mobile usage has increased substantially versus Q2 last year, from 14 MB to 62 MB. Tweet This Post Plurk This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Ping This Post Reddit Stumble This Post. MORE >>

Nielsen reports that almost 99% of video content watched in America is still done on traditional television. Nielsen 2010 study suggests that online video is a replacement of DVR use, or used by those who do not have immediate access to TV. Nielsen claims that  TV network content online is used to catch up with programming, and not typically as a replacement for TV viewing. Tweet This Post Plurk This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Ping This Post Reddit Stumble This Post. Image based on “Living Room and TV Digital Art&# by Carlos Cunha. MORE >>

Nielsen Q2 2011: Most popular apps are games (64%) ,weather apps(60%), followed by social networking (56%), maps/navigation/search(51%), music (44%) and news (39%). Tweet This Post Plurk This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Ping This Post Reddit Stumble This Post. Trendsspotting’s recent innovation research on Mobile Accessories Trends as well as our ongoing consulting work with mobile companies, led me to generate insights on how the development of this market can enhance “Internet of Things” consumer behavior. Here are my conclusions: I. Health. MORE >>

Using Social Media Monitoring to show ROI From Connie Benson: How you can use social media monitoring to show how social media is impacting your business bottom line, Introducing Delicious Tag Mining for Brand Research From Ignite Social Media: Example of how to use delicious data to gather metrics for research purposes. The Top 20 Social Networks of 2008 From Mashable: Discussion of final numbers from 2008, and with them, a look at the rankings and trends within the top 20 social networks, according to Nielsen Online. How do you know that it is working out for you? Thanks! MORE >>

Tweet This Post Plurk This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Ping This Post Reddit Stumble This Post. Tags: Gartner Hype Cycle Google Trends Nielsen BlogPulse Trends Review bloggers buzz word search trends twitter During the start of this year some of us predicted that Twitter would challenge Google in real time search and Google would ‘pagerank’ and ‘map’ people’s influence. Another common prediction was that Google would buy Twitter. Google founder Larry Page reportedly admitted that Twitter made Google focus on real-time search. MORE >>