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How People Spend Their Time Online

Continuing our run of graphic treats this week, here’s another great infographic that explores how people around the world split their time across different online activities. Social networking activities win a clear lion’s share of people’s attention, with this set of data suggesting that Facebook captures an average of more than 465 minutes of people’s time […]

Top Facebook Pages in Asia, April 2012

SocialBakers have just published a new edition of their regular look at the top-performing Facebook pages around the world – here is a selection of reports on Asian countries for April 2012: Singapore: Hong Kong: Pakistan:

The New Rules of Social CRM

This handy infographic comparing Social CRM with its more conventional form comes from our friend Luke Brynley-Jones over over at OurSocialTimes. The potential financial benefits are particularly noteworthy: using social media to handle activities like customer support can deliver significant cost savings, and also help improve response times and levels of customer satisfaction.

Five Friday Facts #26

LinkedIn acquires SlideShare It was announced hours ago that professional networking platform LinkedIn has acquired SlideShare, a sharing platform for business documents, videos and presentations, for US$118.75 million or S$147.51 million. SlideShare users have uploaded more than 9 million presentations since it was founded in October 2006, and nearly 7.4 million presentations hosted by SlideShare have […]

We Are Social Asia Midweek Mashup #26

Instagram sharing to Sina Weibo Instagram added sharing functionalities to Chinese microblogging service Sina Weibo on March 1st with their iOS 2.2 version and since then, 100,000 Instagram photos have been shared on Sina Weibo, with 50,000 users having linked their Instagram and Sina Weibo accounts together. Sina Weibo fails to implement real-name policy Sina, […]

Five Friday Facts #25

Location-based services increasing in popularity The Mobile Life Study by TNS discovered that more than 60% of users worldwide who don’t already use location-based services (LBS) want to. Currently, nearly 20% of mobile users are using LBS, with 22% using these services to find friends who are nearby, 26% using them to find restaurants and entertainment […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #25

Chinese marketers to increase digital spend, but request accountability A joint study by R3 and independent ad tracking company Admaster reveal that Chinese marketers intend to increase their digital spend in 2012 by 26.9%, compared to 18% in 2011. 25% of those surveyed have budgets between RMB 5 to 10 million or S$990,150 to S$1.98 […]

Five Friday Facts #24

Google Maps loses lead in mobile mapping in China According to Beijing-based research firm Analysys International, the Google Maps app now accounts for 25.3% of mobile client usage in China, a decline from 46.3% around the same time last year, and now second to Autonavi by a mere 0.2% in terms of the apps Chinese consumers […]

Top Facebook Pages in India, Q1 2012

SocialBakers have just added a new report on their top Facebook pages series, this time for India:

We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #24

KFC Thailand’s Facebook fail Amidst tsunami warnings in Thailand, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) Thailand suggested people take cover – but crassly suggested they made sure to stop and pick up their favourite KFC first. Although no tsunami surfaced, KFC received severe backlash for their misjudged post which read: Let’s hurry home and follow the earthquake news. […]

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