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The Science of Social Timing

An infographic looking at the science of social timing based on data from Dan Zarrella:

Wikio’s top 20 UK online marketing blogs

Wikio have given us a sneak preview of their list of July’s top UK online marketing blogs, which will be published later today. We’re happy to still be in 2nd place: 1 Econsultancy blog 2 We Are Social 3 Malcolm Coles 4 State of Search 5 Sitemaps and Seo – First in Google? 6 FreshNetworks […]

We Are Social's Monday Mashup #77

Google’s answer to Facebook, 6 days on…. By far the biggest news over the last week was Google’s launch of their answer to Facebook, Google+. Most of the team here at We Are Social have had access since Friday, and to be honest, we’re bored of it already. The experience of the Stream is very […]

The Paid Owned Earned Ecosystem

Our old friend Nick Burcher has reframed his Destination and Conversation model in terms of Paid Owned and Earned: The media landscape is now being bucketed into three distinct areas – Paid Owned and Earned. Paid is the traditional method of paying to place an ad, a ‘go here now’ message. Owned was traditionally a […]

Facebook takes over the world

Following on from last week’s look at a world map of global social media usage, and yesterday’s launch of Facebook competitor Google+, it’s time to focus in on Facebook. Despite the recent slowdown in Facebook’s growth in more mature markets, it continues to grow rapidly around the world, and is rumoured to have recently hit […]

Google's social play: The Google+ project

Google have just unveiled their long anticipated, and often denied, answer to Facebook – the Google+ project: Today, the connections between people increasingly happen online. Yet the subtlety and substance of real-world interactions are lost in the rigidness of our online tools. In this basic, human way, online sharing is awkward. Even broken. And we […]

Welcome to the Age of the Customer

Forrester’s Josh Bernoff has recently released a major piece of work looking at Competitive Strategy In The Age Of The Customer: We took a close look at Michael Porter’s five forces, the definitive framework businesspeople use to analyze competition. There’s no longer any barrier to potential entrants or substitutes – in a digital world, competition […]

We Are Social's Monday Mashup #76

Facebook rumoured to reach 750 million users Last week saw Facebook apparently surpass yet another milestone – as the social network reached 750 million users, adding over 250 million users in not even a year. Facebook vastly outperforming the rest of the internet Facebook’s growth is even more impressive considering how the rest of the […]

The Truth About Youth

A nice report looking at the findings of McCann Worldgroup’s global survey of 16-30 year-olds: a view of the first truly global generation, fuelled and empowered by technology and motivated by the same three fundamental needs: Commune (the need for connection, relationships, and community), Justice (the need for social or personal justice, to do what’s […]

World map of global social media usage

Tom Smith, founder of Trendstream, the company behind the GlobalWebIndex, exclusively talks us through their latest world map of global social media usage. Click on the bottom right of the toolbar above to view full-screen or download the PDF version. The new GlobalWebIndex Social Networking Map 2011 is designed to give a quick look overview […]