Gary Eckstein Internet 2 google, statistic, statistics, WordPress, youtube
The numbers are absolutely incredible! Social Media (Web 2.0) is huge and growing substantially. We have previously noted that WordPress.com gets an incredible 18,000 pageviews a minute. We now get the mindblowing YouTube statistic (YouTube is owned by Google) that ’20 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute’. This means a 33% increase in [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 2 bookmarking, cdc, flu info, google, Internet, it, pandemic, search, sharing, swine flu, swine influenza, technorati, twitter, web, website, widgets, WordPress, world health organization, youtube
Swine influenza is the first pandemic since the widespread sharing of information via the Internet. The last pandemic was the 1969 Hong Kong pandemic at which time the Internet did not exist. The amount of information relating to swine flu which is available on the Internet is huge (but unfortunately not all entirely accurate). WordPress, [...]
Gary Eckstein Social Media 0 blogs, sharing, streaming, twitter, youtube
YouTube is extremely popular. YouTube (and other streaming video sites such as Flickr, Dailymotion etc.) provides a sharing platform for all sorts of video whether that be video blogging, TV clips, movie previews or any other video. A common criticism of YouTube and other video sharing sites is that the videos can be longer in [...]
Gary Eckstein Social Media 2 cnn, facebook, flickr, mainstream media, mixx, sky news, Social Media, twitter, youtube
The lyrics ‘impending doom, it must be true’ as sung by The Killers seems to be the general approach taken by mainstream media in response to the explosion of Social Media popularity. Suddenly many media outlets are battling to figure out just where their competitive advantage lies. This morning on television a Sky News reporter [...]
Gary Eckstein Social Media 1 blogs, facebook, Internet, it strategy, myspace, Social Media, social networking, strategy, web, youtube
If you are like me and almost everyone else I know, then when you are going on holiday or are going to buy a new product or service you will google your destination or other search criteria. More often than not, the websites you view will have some social media content such as reviews from [...]
