Posts Tagged ‘ Social Networks ’

Eduardo injury and YouTube

Tweet The horrific injury sustained by Arsenal’s Brazilian-born Croatian striker Eduardo da Silva has led to an outpouring of sympathy from football fans, and not just supporters of Arsenal or Croatia. Searches for ‘eduardo’ increased almost forty-fold last week, and ‘eduardo injury’ was the fastest moving search term sending traffic to a number of Hitwise [...][ READ MORE ]

UK Polish Internet usage on the rise

Tweet Estimates as to the number of Polish people in the UK range from half a million to over a million. Mass immigration from Central and Eastern Europe has led to a rush for the ‘Polish Pound’, with everyone from multinational banks to independent grocers getting in on the act. One of the great things [...][ READ MORE ]

Brit Awards, MySpace and the top new bands

Tweet The Brit Awards take place tomorrow evening and there are three awards up for the public vote: best British Breakthrough Act, best British Live Act, and best British Single. The latter is tricky to analyze using search data, but I thought I’d have a look at the first two. The chart below illustrates weekly [...][ READ MORE ]

Group Recipes: social networking for the hungry

Tweet Since publishing our social networking report last month, people have been asking us to identify successful niche social networking / web 2.0 sites. Wel,l here’s one that saw a real jump in traffic last week: Group Recipes. The site operates in a similar way to social news sites such as Digg and del.icio.us, with [...][ READ MORE ]

LinkedIn demographics: an up-market social network and an up-market job site

Tweet In yesterday’s post I referred to LinkedIn as part social network, part jobs site. Facebook is the fifth largest site in its upstream clickstream, and last year Sandra wrote about the connections between the two websites. However, LinkedIn has a different user profile to your average social network. It over represents with two key [...][ READ MORE ]

UK job searches and Linkedin

Tweet I wanted to expand on Sandra’s excellent post comparing job searches in the UK, USA and Australia. The table below lists the top UK searches containing the word ‘jobs’ for the 4 weeks ending 12 January 2008 for three types of job search: searches by employer, and searches based on location, both within the [...][ READ MORE ]

Scrabulous, Facebook and Scrabble

Tweet You may have heard that Hasbro, which produces the popular board game Scrabble, is asking Facebook to remove its Scrabulous app. As the name suggests, Scrabulous is an online version of Scrabble that has become one of the most popular Facebook apps – even founder Mark Zuckerberg’s recently admitted in a 60 Minutes interview [...][ READ MORE ]

Facebook: 1 in 50 UK Internet visits

Tweet Facebook’s market share of UK internet visits to All Categories increased to 2.01% in December. The social networking website accounted for one in every fifty UK internet visits in the last month of 2007, with its market share peaking on Christmas Day. As the chart below illustrates, Facebook’s market share has increased 10-fold over [...][ READ MORE ]

Facebook poppy appeal

Tweet You probably noticed the various poppy applications on Facebook in the run up to Armistice Day. On seeing these, the question on my mind was: aside from enabling people to put a poppy on their Facebook profile, what else did they do for the cause? Well, the answer is: quite a lot. A few [...][ READ MORE ]

Social networks overtake webmail

Tweet For the fist time last month, UK Internet visits to social networks overtook visits to web-based email services. As the chart below illustrates, our custom category of the top 25 social networks, which includes Facebook, Bebo and MySpace, accounted for 5.17% of all UK Internet visits, compared to 4.98% for Computers and Internet – [...][ READ MORE ]