"Each week the data-miners in our IT department here at Sackboy Central send us a big spreadsheet full of numbers. Some of the numbers mention stuff like “concurrency” and “peak measures”, which are all very nice, although not, for the most part, tremendously exciting. But there is one number in particular that we’ve always kept a close eye on: the number of levels uploaded by the LittleBigPlanet community. And this week, that number became awesome indeed. The community has now uploaded over one million levels.
One. Million. Levels.
Amazing, isn’t it? Just think, this means that a new level has been published roughly every 21 seconds since LittleBigPlanet launched."
Source: Playstation blog, 22nd July 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Chris Brown's song Forever went top 5 in the download charts after appearing in the user generated video JK Wedding Entrance
"In the last week, over a year after its release, Chris Brown's "Forever" has again rocketed up the charts, reaching as high as #4 on the iTunes singles chart and #3 on Amazon's best selling MP3 list."
Source: Google blog, 30th July 2009
Source: Google blog, 30th July 2009
Google offers 1 million free eBooks for download
"I'm excited to announce that starting today, Google Books will offer free downloads of these and more than one million more public domain books in an additional format, EPUB. By adding support for EPUB downloads, we're hoping to make these books more accessible by helping people around the world to find and read them in more places. More people are turning to new reading devices to access digital books, and many such phones, netbooks, and e-ink readers have smaller screens that don't readily render image-based PDF versions of the books we've scanned. EPUB is a lightweight text-based digital book format that allows the text to automatically conform (or "reflow") to these smaller screens. And because EPUB is a free, open standard supported by a growing ecosystem of digital reading devices, works you download from Google Books as EPUBs won't be tied to or locked into a particular device. We'll also continue to make available these books in the popular PDF format so you can see images of the pages just as they appear in the printed book."
Source: Google Books blog, 26th August 2009
Source: Google Books blog, 26th August 2009
AdMob has served over 100 billion mobile ads
"We’ve just reached another exciting milestone here at AdMob… over 100 billion ads served!"
Source: AdMob blog, 10th August 2009
Source: AdMob blog, 10th August 2009
Almost as many people respond to online display advertising by searching as do by clicking
"Despite considerable speculation about the relationship between search engine marketing and online display advertising over the years, the findings from this new study indicate that the two channels have a closer relationship than many marketers may have thought. In fact, the study shows that Internet users initially respond to the medium as follows: 31% respond by directly clicking on an ad; 27% respond by searching for the product, brand, or company by launching a search on a search engine; 21% respond by typing the company Web address into their browser and directly navigating to the website; and 9% respond by investigating the product, brand, or company through social media venues. Overall, 52% of Internet users actively respond to online display advertising."
Source: Study conducted by Search Marketing agency iProspect, reported in a press release, 11th May 2009
Source: Study conducted by Search Marketing agency iProspect, reported in a press release, 11th May 2009
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