The Nielsen Company today reported overall online video usage and top online brands ranked by video streams for March 2010. The number of unique viewers of online video increased 1.3% year-over-year, from 130.1 million unique viewers in March 2009 to 131.7 million in March 2010.
Among the top Web brands ranked by unique viewers in January [is that the correct month, we're checking], Google was the fastest growing month-over-month, increasing 122.9%. Disney Online and Yahoo! were the second and third fastest growing, increasing 40.3% and 19.4% month-over-month, respectively.
+ Average U.S. Internet Usage, Combined Home & Work, Month of March 2010
Examples: Web Pages per Person; PC Time per Person; Duration of a Web Page Viewed
+ Top 10 Parent Companies/Divisions for March 2010 (U.S., Home and Work)
Note the amount of time users spend on Facebook!
+ Top 10 Web Brands for March 2010 (U.S., Home and Work)
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Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
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