Mark Zuckerberg bloged on 4th Feb that Facebook had reached 400 million users. Let’s put that in perspective by comparing it to country populations; US population is 308.6 million, Thailand’s population is 68 million, UK population is 61 million and Canada’s population is 34 million. Facebook is not yet India or China, but […]

All growth cycles are just that - they go up, up, up and then down - eventually. Twitter just keeps going up - for now. On the 12th of Jan 40 million tweets were made in 24 hours, helping the site reach it’s monumental announcement of 1.2 billion tweets this Jan. Did […]

Openface is about to issue a 2009 update to the Chairty Benchmark Report, looking at the original 120 charities uptake and participation on Twitter….
How many UK charities do you think use Twitter?
Results coming in December.

Charity Benchmark Report, econsultancy.com, twitter

LinkedIn announced yesterday that they have achieved the 50 million registered user mark!
NB Facebook just hit 300 million users.
You can almost picture the adoption curve; on launch in ‘03, it took 477 days for the first million members to join. I remember getting the stamp ‘1st Million User stamp’ for my profile. […]

Facebook announced last week (15th Septebmer 2009) their news that they are ahead of schedule. Instead of becoming cash positive some time in 2010, this has already been achieved in quarter 3 of 2009. User registrations have now surpassed the 300 million mark too.
So what are the income sources? Silicone Alley Insider estimates the […]

Just come across this golden site that checks if your ‘user name’ is available across popular sites including twitter, technorati, ebay, flickr, smugmug, lastfm and many many more sites.

Usernamecheck.com is so simple to use. Just type in your prefered user name and see if it is still available!
‘njoy

account management, online tools, […]

Strategy Magazine have awarded the overall ‘Cause + Action 2009′ award to CBC’s One Million Acts of Green (OMAoG).
The awards recognise the best of Canadian corporate social responsibility plans and CBC and Cisco Systems picked up the overall winner award.
In less than six months, the site succeeded its named intentions. Cisco knew […]

Congrats to the great PR that Public relations firm MMW Group are achieving for their on-going online mothers day campaign for 1-800-Flowers in the US. The online campaign is a component of the integrated campaign including print and tv.
Focusing on online, it is refreshing to find a ready list of tried, tested and working […]

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom declared yesterday what Californians who suspected for months that he is running for governor in 2010. He made the declaration to his already loyal supporters following him on Twitter:
# It’s official- running for Gov of CA. Wanted you to be the first to know. Need your help. Check […]

I heard a great comment on NPR this week; “Twitter is already OVER - even US Congressmen are using it”.
Social Media seems to be so fadish - look at how Facebook took over from MySpace?
I suggest the terminology is wrong. It is not ‘over’ but ‘comon place’ instead.
In the begining […]