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“We kids still dream about perfection. Our audacity to imagine helps push the boundaries of reality.” Adora Svitak. So who is she?

At only two and a half years old, Adora could read and write simple words but what’s most astounding about her is she published her own book when she was only 7 years old. On top of that, she’s currently the youngest TED speaker at twelve years old. Read More

Recently, The NYTimes published an article covering the research of University of Pennsylvania to understand the factors behind the NYTimes “most emailed” list which appeared on their site. To go about doing this, they checked the NYTimes every 15 minutes for the past six months, analyzing the content of thousands of articles and controlling for factors like the placement in the paper or Web page Read More

A fresh study conducted by the Nielsen Company showed that Facebook is currently the biggest time waster on the Internet. According to the data gathered, users around the United States spent a whopping 7 hours on average using Facebook per month; this is a growth of about 10%. Additionally, the number of those actively using the web grew 3.8% to slightly more than 203 million users. Read More

Have you ever come across people that you’ve tried calling and emailing but failed to receive any response from them? However, when you text them, they reply. Read More

To be honest, it’s not easy to make money on Twitter; given that it’s an information water-cooler of the world rather than a platform where content is produced. But that didn’t stop Dell from making $3 million off Twitter. So Twitter just isn’t about buzz. Read More

I read a number of articles daily; including blog posts. They range from social media to humorous articles. However, there’s another step to do after reading; which is commenting on the articles that you’ve just read. From what I noticed, the number of blog comments has been going down south with the availability of other social media platforms. Read More

Valentine’s Day is already over for most but for me, it’s celebrated everyday with my lovely friends, family and that special someone. Apparently, Facebook’s data scientists too got into the flow of things: Does having that someone special really makes us happy? The results, which are detailed on Facebook’s blog aren’t quite as black and white as you might have expected. Read More

Facebook Pages, which let users become “fans” of their favourite brands, people and places have become a vital piece of social media strategy for lots of companies. However, how do you measure the success of your page? One way is to look at raw numbers but the more effective way is to look at the actual growth rates of your Facebook page. Read More

At the end of 2009, Twitter now has over 75 million user accounts registered. Wikipedia describes Twitter as a free social networking and microblogging service that enables it users to send and read messages known as tweets. It was first launched on March 21, 2006 at 9:50 PM Pacific Standard Time (PST): “just setting up my twttr”. Read More

In marketing, marketers do as much as possible to get people talking about a particular brand. In this day and age, there’s a trend where most will gravitate towards social networking platforms. Even though it’s still under the category of New Media, most people tend to overlook the other platforms encompassed under the term New Media; online forums for example.
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