OVERALL TOP TRENDS
1.Gulf Oil Spill
2.FIFA World Cup
3.Inception
4.Haiti Earthquake
5.Vuvuzela
6.Apple iPad
7.Google Android
8.Justin Bieber
9.Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows
10.Pulpo Paul
NEWS EVENTS
Gulf Oil Spill
Haiti Earthquake
Pakistan Floods
Koreas Conflict
Chilean Miners Rescue
Chavez Tas Ponchao
Wikileaks Cablegate
Hurricane Earl
Prince Williams Engagement
World Aids Day
PEOPLE
Justin Bieber
Dilma Rouseff
Lady Gaga
Julian Assange
Mel Gibson
Lil Kim
Zilda Arns
Kate Middleton
Kim Hee Chul
Joannie Rochette
MOVIES
Inception
Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Despicable Me
Karate Kid
The Last Airbender
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
The Expendables
The Chronicles of Narnia
Paranormal Activity 2
TELEVISION
MTV Music Video Awards
Pretty Little Liars
True Blood
Walking Dead
Grammy Awards
Glee
Family Guy
CSI
MTV Movie Awards
American Music Awards
TECHNOLOGY
Apple iPad
Google Android
Apple iOS
Apple iPhone
Call of Duty Black Ops
New Twitter
HTC
RockMelt
MacBook Air
Google Instant
WORLD CUP
FIFA World Cup
Vuvuzela
Pulpo Paul
Dunga
Diego Maradona
Cristiano Ronaldo
Cala Boca Galvao
Lionel Messi
Oranje
Felipe Melo
SPORTS
Lebron James
Wimbledon
Manchester United
Brock Lesnar
Celtics
Brett Favre
Tony Parker
Antonio Margarito
Blake Griffin
Mike Vick
HASHTAGS
#rememberwhen
#slapyourself
#confessiontime
#thingsimiss
#ohjustlikeme
#wheniwaslittle
#haveuever
#icantlivewithout
#thankful
#2010disappointments
Source: Twitter's Year in Review, December 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
Twitter grew by more than 100m accounts in 2010
"In 2010 Twitter grew by more than 100m registered accounts"
Source: Twitter's Year in Review, December 2010
Source: Twitter's Year in Review, December 2010
It took CityVille 8 days to reach 6m players (updated)
"Zynga’s newest game, CityVille, is the fastest growing game in the company’s history. But we already knew that. It had nearly 300,000 players in the first 24 hours, and 3 million daily active users in its first week.
But it’s growth ramp keeps on going crazy. Now, not quite two days after it hit the 3-million user mark, it is already at 6 million daily active users, we’ve learned from the company. To put that in perspective, that is four times faster than it took FrontierVille to get to 6 million daily active users, and more than five time faster than it took FarmVille.
Time It Took To Get To 6 Million Daily Active Users
FarmVille: 46 days
FrontierVille: 32 days
CityVille: 8 days"
Source: Techcrunch, 11th December 2010
Update - 22m in 11 days
But it’s growth ramp keeps on going crazy. Now, not quite two days after it hit the 3-million user mark, it is already at 6 million daily active users, we’ve learned from the company. To put that in perspective, that is four times faster than it took FrontierVille to get to 6 million daily active users, and more than five time faster than it took FarmVille.
Time It Took To Get To 6 Million Daily Active Users
FarmVille: 46 days
FrontierVille: 32 days
CityVille: 8 days"
Source: Techcrunch, 11th December 2010
Update - 22m in 11 days
Thursday, December 9, 2010
It took six days for twitter followers of celebrities like Justin Timberlake & Lady Gaga to raise $1m for Africa
Tweet on 1st December:
Tweet on 6th December:
Full information:
Update - The gossip site Popbitch has a different take on the story:
"Neatly proving just how ineffective social media actually is, 18 celebrities (and Jay Sean) sacrificed their "digital lives" for charity last week, vowing to stop updating their Twitter and Facebook feeds. Social network silence from Lady Gaga, Alicia Keys, Justin Timberlake and others until their fans donated a million dollars to the Keep A Child Alive campaign to help fight AIDS.
With six days gone, donations were still under $300k. The celebs got restive - Usher just plain gave up and started tweeting - so a billionaire patsy, and longtime AIDS funder Stewart Bahr, was drafted in to pay it off.
It would have cost the celebs' 35 million combined followers less than 3 cents each to buy back their lives and get them tweeting again, so it appears their fans are staunchly pro-AIDS, or no-one really cared very much about what they had to say in the first place.
FYI Serena Williams inadvertently summed up the campaign's biggest problem in her last tweet and testament: "[It means] no more news about me winning more Grand Slams, selling books, winning gold medals, owning AMAZING football teams or pioneering fashion until we raise some serious cash". Is it any wonder people wanted her silenced? http://bit.ly/huo25w "
Source: Popbitch newsletter, Issue 526, 9th December 2010
Tweet on 6th December:
Full information:
Update - The gossip site Popbitch has a different take on the story:
"Neatly proving just how ineffective social media actually is, 18 celebrities (and Jay Sean) sacrificed their "digital lives" for charity last week, vowing to stop updating their Twitter and Facebook feeds. Social network silence from Lady Gaga, Alicia Keys, Justin Timberlake and others until their fans donated a million dollars to the Keep A Child Alive campaign to help fight AIDS.
With six days gone, donations were still under $300k. The celebs got restive - Usher just plain gave up and started tweeting - so a billionaire patsy, and longtime AIDS funder Stewart Bahr, was drafted in to pay it off.
It would have cost the celebs' 35 million combined followers less than 3 cents each to buy back their lives and get them tweeting again, so it appears their fans are staunchly pro-AIDS, or no-one really cared very much about what they had to say in the first place.
FYI Serena Williams inadvertently summed up the campaign's biggest problem in her last tweet and testament: "[It means] no more news about me winning more Grand Slams, selling books, winning gold medals, owning AMAZING football teams or pioneering fashion until we raise some serious cash". Is it any wonder people wanted her silenced? http://bit.ly/huo25w "
Source: Popbitch newsletter, Issue 526, 9th December 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
Last.fm made a loss of £2.84m in 2009
"Last.fm has just published its financial report for 2009 on Companies House in the UK, revealing a loss for the financial year of just under £2.84 million.
The company ended 2009 with net liabilities of £22.24 million, but says parent company CBS continues to “make available such funds as are needed” by the music service.
Last.fm’s turnover for 2009 was £7.28 million, up from £4.19 million in 2008. However, its cost of sales was £7.2 million in 2009, down from £8 million in 2008. That meant Last.fm reported a gross profit of £86,322 in 2009, compared to a gross loss of £3.81 million in 2008.
[...]
Of that £7.28 million, £5.37 million came from advertising sales – 73.7%. A further £1.3 million came from subscriptions (17.9%), with just over £0.6 million coming from affiliate sales (8.4%).
Geographically, 54.8% of Last.fm’s revenues in 2009 came from the UK, with 33.5% coming from the US, 9.4% from EU countries, and 2.3% from the rest of the world (right – click for larger). Last.fm’s headcount fell from an average of 79 in 2008 to 55 in 2009, according to the report."
Source: Music Ally, 3rd December 2010
The company ended 2009 with net liabilities of £22.24 million, but says parent company CBS continues to “make available such funds as are needed” by the music service.
Last.fm’s turnover for 2009 was £7.28 million, up from £4.19 million in 2008. However, its cost of sales was £7.2 million in 2009, down from £8 million in 2008. That meant Last.fm reported a gross profit of £86,322 in 2009, compared to a gross loss of £3.81 million in 2008.
[...]
Of that £7.28 million, £5.37 million came from advertising sales – 73.7%. A further £1.3 million came from subscriptions (17.9%), with just over £0.6 million coming from affiliate sales (8.4%).
Geographically, 54.8% of Last.fm’s revenues in 2009 came from the UK, with 33.5% coming from the US, 9.4% from EU countries, and 2.3% from the rest of the world (right – click for larger). Last.fm’s headcount fell from an average of 79 in 2008 to 55 in 2009, according to the report."
Source: Music Ally, 3rd December 2010
70% of European online sales come from just 3 countries
"Seventy per cent of European online sales are from just three countries, new research has found.
FACT-Finder, an ecommerce specialist, found that the big three are the UK, with €48bn in annual sales, Germany, with €39.2bn and France with €25bn.
At the same time, cross-border trading is a challenge for many online stores, said the report. Cultural differences mean that despite the physical closeness of countries such as France and Germany, advertising campaigns do not translate across borders and few of their online stores trade beyond national boundaries.
There’s also, said FACT-Finder, a lack of consumer confidence in buying from different countries, while complex VAT requirements make it difficult for smaller brands and retailers to sell across the European Union.
The fastest growing, though currently the smallest, online market in Europe is Poland, which generates €3.6bn in sales but has grown by 36%^ in 2010, compared to the same time in 2009. The FACT –Finder report singles this out as the market with the greatest potential since its retailers are more aware of the opportunities offered by the internet."
FACT-Finder, an ecommerce specialist, found that the big three are the UK, with €48bn in annual sales, Germany, with €39.2bn and France with €25bn.
At the same time, cross-border trading is a challenge for many online stores, said the report. Cultural differences mean that despite the physical closeness of countries such as France and Germany, advertising campaigns do not translate across borders and few of their online stores trade beyond national boundaries.
There’s also, said FACT-Finder, a lack of consumer confidence in buying from different countries, while complex VAT requirements make it difficult for smaller brands and retailers to sell across the European Union.
The fastest growing, though currently the smallest, online market in Europe is Poland, which generates €3.6bn in sales but has grown by 36%^ in 2010, compared to the same time in 2009. The FACT –Finder report singles this out as the market with the greatest potential since its retailers are more aware of the opportunities offered by the internet."
Source: Research by FACT-Finder, reported by Internet Retailing, 3rd December 2010
Thursday, December 2, 2010
The most-used words in 5 star and 1 star iPhone app reviews
"I wrote a script to crawl U.S. App Store customer reviews for the top 100 apps from every category (minus duplicates) and compute the most common words in 1-star and 5-star reviews, excluding words that were also common in 3-star reviews.
Keep in mind that the results are not representative of overall user opinions: most users don’t review apps, and people who dislike an app are more likely to leave a review than people who like it.
These are the top words by rating, with descending frequency:
*****:
awesome, worth, thanks, amazing, simple, perfect, price, everything, ever, must, ipod, before, found, store, never, recommend, done, take, always, touch
*:
waste, money, crashes, tried, useless, nothing, paid, open, deleted, downloaded, didn’t, says, stupid, anything, actually, account, bought, apple, already
Bold words are adjectives or likely to be used as adjectives in context."
Source: Blog post by Marco Arment, 12th September 2010
Keep in mind that the results are not representative of overall user opinions: most users don’t review apps, and people who dislike an app are more likely to leave a review than people who like it.
These are the top words by rating, with descending frequency:
*****:
awesome, worth, thanks, amazing, simple, perfect, price, everything, ever, must, ipod, before, found, store, never, recommend, done, take, always, touch
*:
waste, money, crashes, tried, useless, nothing, paid, open, deleted, downloaded, didn’t, says, stupid, anything, actually, account, bought, apple, already
Bold words are adjectives or likely to be used as adjectives in context."
Source: Blog post by Marco Arment, 12th September 2010
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