Quick Take: Internet Explorer versions 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 are leading the Interent browser cahrts worldwide, as reported by statcounter. Even in US although Internet explorer 7.0 has lost share of 23 % from Jan-09 to Jul-09, it has gained share of 14% for 8.0, still leading in US but over all losing ground to Firefox, which [...]
Quick Take: Biz Spark(Twitter co-founder) has recommended World of Warcraft gamers to use the client “Tweetcraft” for twitter updates while playing the game. He also proposed twitpic for uploading of pics.
Twitter Blog: TweetCraft for WoW Players
Quick Take: Youtube Channels makeover on beta side goes up with new trial features, and the new design options in channels will come out of beta soon. There are lots of bug fixes on beta and some new trials.
Youtube Beta blog: More channel updates; Youtube Official blog
Quick Take: Peachtree Media Advisors reported that digital Media multiples “increased from 2.5x Revenue in April 2009 to 2.7x Revenue in June 2009 and EBITDA multiples increase from 10.9x EBITDA in April 2009 to 12.3x in June 2009.”
Peachtree Media Advisors Blog; Peachtree Media Advisors 2008 Full Report
Quick Take: The “Self-Regulatory Principles For Online Behavioral Advertising” are out with guidelines for websites to share more information with consumers. The participating groups are IAB and other leading associations on advertising and consumer rights.
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Quick Take: US Justice has confirmed that it was coducting a probe into antitrust litigation filed by group of authors and publishers against google. The settlement could allow Google to monetize the content and share revenues with authors and publishers.
NYT: U.S. Inquiry Is Confirmed Into Google Books Deal; PC World: DOJ Turns up the Heat on Google’s [...]
Quick Take: Youtube has increased its upload size to 2 GB, and have also allowed direct HD uploads, and uploads of videos of longer length.
Youtube Blog: Upload Size Doubles + HD Tips
Quick Take: As per a comscore release, Russia has world’s most engaged social networking audience, with visitors spending 6.6 hours(as against worldwide average of 3.7 hours) and viewing 1,307 pages per visitor per month(as againast worldwide average of 525). Vkontakte.ru Ranks is the leading social networking Site in Russia with 14 million visitors. Comscore also reported that over [...]
Quick Take: As per statcounter results, Bing has taken 1% market share in first month of operations from Google in terms of search engine usage. The Bing’s Share has moved from 7.21% to 8.23%, while Google share has moved from 79.07 to 78.48%.
Digital trends: StatCounter: Bing Boosts Microsoft Search Share One Percent
Quick Take: Gmail has introduced new labels and adiitions to organize mail better. This will also help in taking eay actions on top menu and side menu. The mails can now be catagorized as Personal, TRavel, work etc.
Google Blog: The evolution of Gmail labels
