Since Facebook’s launch of the Facebook Application platform in May 2007 Facebook applications have they proven themselves extremely successful at increasing the amount of time users spend on Facebook.
According to Nielsen, users of the social networking website Facebook spent over 82% more time on Facebook in 2009 than they did in 2008 Furthermore, the average amount of time spent on Facebook by each user is six hours per month.
Recently, using social media for charities and non-profits has been the conversation topic du jor, due in no small part to the massively successful text donation campaign for Haiti implemented by The Red Cross. Social media for non-profits and causes has been steadily evolving in both effective and creative ways because social channels are a natural way to disseminate information. Which is why TwitCause makes so much sense.
I had a chance to be on a panel at Internet Summit ‘09 with several interesting folks, among them Rick Klau, the Business Product Manager for Blogger at Google.
My very first blog, Life is Marketing, was a Blogger blog, but I had to wonder how Blogger was faring in an era of microblogging (like Twitter), location-based services (like FourSquare) and mini-blog services (like Posterous and Tumblr). And since Rick works for Google, I had to ask him exactly where Google Wave is going to take us. Take a look:
With all the hype about the Nexus One today, and knowing that I am still in the market for a cell phone, I wanted to see what all they might have that would make this more interesting. The problem is going through the web interface of the Android Market Place simply stinks – only top featured apps, no browsing capability – no search – and all this from Search Engine King Google.