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Dec
17

9 Huge Tech IPOs Of 2011

Category: Social, Technology Tags: FarmVille, google, Groupon, HomeAway, Initial public offering, Ipo, LinkedIn, mafia wars, Mark Pincus, Nasdaq, New York Stock Exchange, Pandora, Tech Initial Public Offerings, Tech IPO, Tech IPOs, Year-In-Review, Zillow, Zynga, Zynga IPO Leave a Comment

Zynga, the social gaming company whose “Mafia Wars,” “FarmVille,” and other games have amassed millions of devoted fans, is now worth billions of dollars and, on December 16, made its debuted on the Nasdaq stock exchange.

The company, which is named after founder and CEO Mark Pincus’ bulldog, “Zinga,” priced shares at $10 a piece and raised $1 billion in its IPO.According to the Associated Press, the gaming company is now second only to Google when it comes to high-value internet IPOs. The search giant raised $1.4 billion when it went public in 2004.

Zynga’s IPO is only the latest in a series of highly-anticipated initial public offerings from technology companies this year. LinkedIn, Pandora, Groupon and Zillow, among others, also made their public debuts.

But how does Zynga compare to these other companies’ IPOs? And how are these “hot” companies faring now?

Speediest Social Media Sites

Category: Social, Technology Tags: AlertSite, facebook, Fastest Social Media, Fastest Social Media Sites, Fastest Websites, LinkedIn, myspace, PC Magazine, SmartBear, social media, Social Media Fastest, social network, twitter, Video, youtube Leave a Comment

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Software company SmartBear recently released the seventh installment of their quarterly Web Performance Index for Social Networks. It ranked which social media sites were the fastest and which were the most reliable in the third quarter of 2011.

The findings are based on data collected by SmartBear’s AlertSite, which monitors the home pages of these five sites across 12 U.S. cities, collecting data every five minutes between 6 a.m. and 11:59 p.m. EST.

To collect the data on social media speed SmartBear times how long it takes the website to load completely. According to PC Magazine, this includes “images, JavaScript, Flash, and third party objects.” The sites availability depends on how often it loads completely in under 60 seconds.

Using Social Media to Create Content Value

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Advertising, Content Value, Create Content Value, facebook, google, INTENTclick, Lead generation, LinkedIn, Monetization, Search engine optimization, social media, social media uses, twitter Leave a Comment

Link insertion is a term that’s being thrown around a lot lately as so many new publishers and companies are getting involved. And social media has, of course, exploded in use over the last years and more and more companies are now using sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to help spread their message, which is ultimately to purchase their service.

LinkedIn is An Email Inbox Flooding Service – Jon Stewart

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Barack Obama, BarackObama, Daily Show, Forbes, iPhone, Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart Linkedin, Jon Stewart Mocks Linkedin, LinkedIn, Linkedin Jon Stewart, Obama Linkedin, Sarah Palin, Silicon Valley, Stewart, The Daily Show Linkedin, Wall Street Journal 1 Comment

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Earlier in the week, Barack Obama visited the Silicon Valley headquarters of business-orientated social network LinkedIn, which hosted a town hall-style meeting to promote the president’s new jobs bill. The irony of talking about how to find jobs at a company that helps people find jobs was not lost on Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show.”

Stewart noted that many audience participants said they or someone close to them were unemployed. LinkedIn, Stewart said, had clearly not worked for the town hall attendees, and he claimed not to know what the service is designed to do for people who use it.

“I thought [LinkedIn] was an email inbox flooding service whose sole purpose in life was to remind me that a guy I went to high school with would like me to join LinkedIn so I can spam everyone I ever met,” Stewart said in his opening segment, making reference to LinkedIn’s infamous email invites, designed to kickstart the user’s network of connections and encourage new interactions on the site.

Google Plus Problems

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Bradley Horowitz, comScore, Find People, google, google plus, Google Plus Complaints, Google Plus Issues, Google Plus Problems, Google Plus Social Network, Google Social Network, Google+ Complaints, Google+ Issues, Google+ Problems, LinkedIn, Robert Scoble, social network, Sydney Morning Herald, twitter 1 Comment

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Google+ opened its doors to the public on September 20 after 12 weeks of invite-only beta testing. During that time, despite limited signup allowances, Google’s social network exploded in popularity. In late July, the site notched its 25 millionth new account, prompting ComScore to declared it the fastest-growing social network ever.

The site continues to add members, but it’s still dwarfed by the user pools of more established networks like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Facebook, the mother of all social networks, in September boasted over 800 million active accounts. LinkedIn reported way back in March 2011 that it had accumulated 100 million users, and Twitter’s recent figures numbered its user accounts at 100 million.

Women Use Social Media More Than Men

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Andreas Bernstrom, Communication, facebook, Harris Interactive, Harris Interactive Study, LinkedIn, Mobile VoIP, Rebtel, Rebtel Study, social media, Social network service, twitter, Women Social Media, Women Social Media Habits, Women Social Networking 1 Comment

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Rebtel, a mobile VoIP company, commissioned a study from research firm Harris Interactive on the social networking habits of men and women. The researchers, who looked at the communication habits of 2,361 adults aged 18 and over, found that women are significantly more likely to use online social networks, like Facebook or twitter, to communicate with friends, family, and co-workers. A whopping 68 percent of womenuse social media to stay in touch with friends, as opposed to 54 percent of men.

“Our findings show that men tend to lag behind women when it comes to communicating with others through social media, which debunks other recent studies that suggest that men are more savvy networkers between the sexes,” Rebtel‘s CEO Andreas Bernstrom said in a statement.

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