Parody Google ad: Is Tiger feeling lucky?
February 8, 2010
As Tiger Woods recovers from a car accident and contends with reports of philandering, Slate V imagines what the golfing great might be typing into that familiar white search bar.
Real-time reactions to Super Bowl ads on Twitter
February 7, 2010
BrandBowl2010 — a new Super Bowl advertiser tracking site from Mullen and Radian 6 — offers near real-time analysis for an immediate look at pre-, post- and in-game Twitter reactions to the Super Bowl spots everyone will be watching, Mashable reports.
Tag the Super Bowl: #SB44
February 7, 2010
The NFL has created a hashtag, #SB44, for the Super Bowl and a cool site that let’s you easily explore photos and tweets from fans from Twitter and Flickr.
Facebook overtakes Google News as media site traffic driver
February 5, 2010
Facebook was the #4 source of visits to News and Media sites last week, after Google, Yahoo! and msn, according to Hitwise. Google News accounted for 1.39% of visits to News and Media websites, and Facebook accounted for 3.52%. That’s a big shift since last April, when they were about equal. Read more »
How Americans use social media
February 3, 2010
Since 2006, blogging has dropped among teens and young adults while simultaneously rising among older adults, according to a new report on Social Media and Young Adults from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.