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Google+ With 110,7 Million Visitors Worldwide In June

Share According to comScore, Google+ had 110,7 million unique visitors worldwide in June. Compared to last November, this is a growth of 66%. In the U.S., the growth is even higher, with an 82% growth from November to 27,7 million unique visitors in June. The comScore data thus confirms earlier Google+ growth stories based on U.S. [...]

Google+ grows 43% in June – reaches 31,9 million unique visitors in the US, new…

Share Google+ grows 43% in June – reaches 31,9 million unique visitors in the US, new numbers from Compete shows The June social network traffic numbers from Compete are now available, and confirms that Google+ had a huge visitor and traffic increase in June. This month Google+ had 31,9 million visitors to it's site, compared [...]

Google+ with more traffic than Pinterest, Linkedin and Tagged in the US – growing…

Share Google+ with more traffic than Pinterest, Linkedin and Tagged in the US – growing 37% in two weeks Google+ is continuing it's growth in weekly visits, and last week, ending 9th of June, the new social network had more weekly visits than Pinterest, Linkedin and Tagged. 37% growth in two weeksAccording to Experian Hitwise, [...]

A Google wake-up call

Share For entrepreneurs and leaders, for business, content and social media strategists, it’s time to wake up, if you haven’t got it yet: Whether you like it or not, whether you want to be in denial or not, Google is systematically constructing your future business environment. From link building to authority building. From search to [...]

Think different

Share +Max Huijgen from Holland is an eager sharer of insight to the Google+ community. For a month ago he launched the page +Europeans on G+, and right after a lot of Europeans and Scandinavians were inspired to share circles with each other. Max is also highly skilled and interested in analytics, and has made [...]

My Text Clouds on Google+ and other social networks

Share Rather happy about my text clouds using http://timc.idv.tw/wordcloud/en/# this morning, on my accounts at Google+, WordPress, Scoopit, Facebook and Twitter. The dominant word "Og" – which is the Norwegian word for "and" can either show that I am fairly inclusive, or that I am writing long sentences…. On Twitter, if you take away all [...]

Google+ User Estimates, Facts and Trends

Share We give you the facts and sources of different Google+ user estimates, so you can make up your own opinions. Confirmed Users Worldwide: 40 million – via Larry Page, Google, Oct. 13http://investor.google.com/earnings/2011/Q3_google_earnings.html Estimated Registered Users Worldwide, December 2011: 62 million – via Paul Allen, Dec. 28https://plus.google.com/117388252776312694644/posts/ZcPA5ztMZaj Userbase Worldwide, December 2011: 150 million – via [...]

Scoop.it Went Live This Week: Here is The Story – Curated, Scooped and Storified

Share Curation tool Scoop.it came out of beta this week. CEO Guillaume Decugis emailing about the launch: “We’re coming out of private beta with solid numbers on stickiness, visits and growth”. So what was more natural than to curate the news? Using both Scoop.it and Storify? Scoop.it out of beta today! CEO @gdecugis ahead of the launch: [...]

“2 million visits / month, growing at 35% per month.” CEO @gdecugis. Scoop.it out of beta today.

Share Via Scoop.it – Brand & Content Curation CEO Guillaume Decugis (@gdecugis) and his team at @scoopit emailing his curaton friends last night, before today’s launch: “We’re coming out of private beta with solid numbers on stickiness and 2 million visits / month, growing at 35% per month.”  Scoop.it will also introduce a professional solution:Decugis: [...]

Scoop.it out of beta today! CEO @gdecugis ahead of the launch: Everyone is now a publisher. (VIDEO)

Share Via Scoop.it – Brand & Content Curation The Web 2.0 made the promise everyone would be a publisher. Watch Scoop.it’s new launch video as the curation tool is coming out of beta today. CEO @gdecugis and his team at @scoopit emailing his curaton friends last night: “Curation is lowering the barrier to expression on the Web: [...]

Friday Night With a Beer and Storify – Kicking Ass

Share Storify is kicking ass as a storytelling curation tool, with exciting new source, grabbing and editing features! I figured that Storify, a story and a beer could be a nice way to spend a couple of hours Friday night. Storify have some great features, with some bugs though. To give Storify a test I [...]

Is Facebook “The New Internet”? After all?

Share Is Facebook “The New Internet”? I asked on Quora this summer: ”Facebook is growing, in users, in spent time and in connected websites. Are we heading towards a development where Facebook and its taxonomy will be the utter platform and user interface both for conversations, content sharing, search and commerce? Or more or less ”The [...]

Frontend Conference 2011

Share In October 2011 Frontend 2011, an international conference for designers and developers with 250 attendees, took place in Oslo, Norway. The web presence of the conference, produced by IXD, was topped with social media activities using Tumblr for blogging, Flickr for photo sharing, YouTube and Vimeo for video sharing, Twitter and Facebook for content [...]

Curated Insight & Debates. Carefully collected stories on 3 Topics.

Share I believe Creation & Curation are two sides of the same coin. So this time I am curating good content. On 3 Topics: The Google+ Project, The Social Media Expert Debate & The New Social Journalism. 100 Google+ news, Pros and Cons The Google+ Project is launched. “The Facebook Killer”, “The Social Awkward Google Going [...]

Content Curation – Growing Up and Coming of Age

Share There are more and more signs that Content Curation is starting to “grow up”. The tools are maturing, ever more impressive cases are being created and interest from investors is rising. However -  yet to come – are long-term, consistent and sustainable business models. Part I: The “storified” laptop story The impetus to this [...]