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TestKing has created this great infographic that literally tells you everything you need to know about social networking.
It’s like a infographic crib sheet with facts about Facebook and Twitter as well as social networking around the world.
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Deloitte predicts that in 2011 social networks are likely to surpass the breathtaking milestone of one billion unique members. Also, they may deliver over 2 trillion advertisements.
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"Quality of content and community is diametrically opposed to mass market success," says Burbidge. "Having worked on Answers, I can tell that the level of quality is going to drop from the very high level it is at now as more people sign up."
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The mobile application marketplace will reach $25 billion by 2015, according to a new report from World Mobile Applications Market, a U.S.-based market research firm. It's yet another confirmation of the huge worldwide trend that is the proliferation of app stores.
The mobile app market was $6.8 billion this year, the reports says, but will grow steadily over the next four years to reach $25 billion. And out of that $25 billion, Apple's App Store will account for 20.5% of total revenues.
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Well, some bad but not particularly surprising predictions from The New Yorker’s Ken Auletta in a six-page spread about Tim Armstrong‘s attempted turnaround of AOL: the “content first” strategy that has involved hiring so many hundreds of journalists may not be working.
Data point number one: Patch, which has 750-plus locations across the country and has provided jobs to countless numbers of journalists, is too much like a “digital Yellow Pages” and not enough like, well, journalism. It also, says PaidContent, summarizing Auletta’s piece, is likely too expensive to be sustainable, at $30 million a quarter.
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