“Hollywood has the Oscars. Broadway has the Tonys. Now Twitter has the…Shorty Awards”

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Tags: awards, tweet, Twitter, users

According to The Nielsen Company, global* consumers spent more than five and half hours on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in December 2009, an 82% increase from the same time last year when users were spending just over three hours on social networking sites. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009, Blog, Facebook, instant messaging, online, site, social media, social network, Twitter, users

Lodgings advertising banners in runet in 2010 will be cheaper, writes Kommersant. “Yandex” has lowered prices on 25-31,5 percent, and Mail.ru – 17 per cent. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009, advertising, banners, internet, mail.ru, market, Rambler Media, RuNet, russia, Yandex

It was a big year for technology: Twitter and Facebook’s popularity exploded, while new smartphones, e-readers and a host of other gadgets cropped up to compete for our plugged-in affection. Read the rest of this entry »

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Marketers  continue to reallocate spend from traditional media into online. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: advertising, budget, company, Email advertising, europe, internet, market, marketers, Media, Mobile advertising, networks, online, Research, Smartphones, television, TV, Video

Search engine Yandex has decided to close the top popular blog posts. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Blog, Blog Search, bloggers, blogosphere, Entries, link, Media, post, rating, RuNet, search engine, top, users, Yandex

Scientists investigating a large crater in a field in northern Latvia, believed to have been caused by a meteorite, now suspect it was a hoax. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Hoax, Latvia, LETA, Meteorite, Tele2

Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions a radically changed internet five years from now: dominated by Chinese-language and social media content Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: app, broadband, business, companie, computers, content, Google, information, internet, Interview, rank, real time, search results, social media, Web, YouTube

Begun offer the new ad format – “showcases” that allows you to add colorful illustration in text ads. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ad, advertisers, advertising, Begun, campaign, contextual, image, Media, network, product, service, showcases, social networking, text ads

A familiar workhorse of Internet advertising is the display, or graphical, ad. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ads, advertising, America, analysis, brand, campaign, click, comScore, display, internet, online, pay per click, Search, sites, users, viewer, Web