Post tagged "Google"

Facebook Drives 350x More Traffic to News/Media Sites than Google Reader

Posted February 6, 2010 at 1:58 pm by Tonia Ries | 0 comments

According to a ReadWriteWeb analysis of Hitwise numbers, Facebook drives 350 times as much traffic to other websites in the “news and media” category (3.5%) as Google Reader does (.01%).

However, Facebook, Google News (1.4%). and Google Reader togetheraccount for less than 5% of news sites’ total traffic. The #1, 2 and 3 drivers of traffic to news sites? Google, Yahoo and MSN.

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Posted in Statistics. Tags: Facebook, Google, Google News, Google Reader, Hitwise, media, MSN, news, RSS, traffic, Yahoo. .

I like what Google did and I like how they did it.

Posted January 14, 2010 at 12:42 am by Christopher Carson | 0 comments

What they did.

What Google did, telling China where to get off, marks a geopolitical epoch: I can’t think of another example of a commercial entity risking it’s commercial interests to stand against tyranny. …more…

Posted in Blog, Commentary. Tags: Google, politics, public relations, social media how-to. .

Sunday In the Sandbox with Facebook Connect

Posted December 8, 2008 at 8:41 am by Christopher Carson | 2 comments

Having been told by Tonia that I would have to provide useful content for this site, rather than just pronouncing from on high, I spent the Sabbath playing around with Facebook Connect (website | Tonia’s post,) to see whether I could extract something useful from it.  …more…

Posted in Commentary, How to. Tags: API, application development, Facebook, Facebook Connect, Google, news, social media how-to, social networking services, technology, widgets. .