Aktuelles 7. Juli 2011

Lesenswerte Analysen, Hintergrundberichte und interessante News:

• StumbleUpon sends more traffic to US websites than Facebook
• Skype Averaging 300M Minutes Of Video Calling Per Month; Represents 50 Percent Of Traffic „Skype CEO Tony Bates just took the stage at today’s Facebook event announcing integrated video calling, group chat and new design today and revealed a number of new stats regarding video calling on the VoIP platform. Bates said that Skype users are averaging 300 million minutes per month of video calling. Bates says that 50 percent of Skype’s traffic is video calling.“
• Die Angst vor der digitalen Schraubzwinge „mit dem Verkauf von Zeitungen an Leser verdienen Verleger inzwischen mehr Geld als mit Werbung. Wie ist das bei
  sinkenden Auflagen möglich? Recht einfach: Die Preise der Blätter steigen munter. Klar ist allerdings, dass die Verlage die Preisschraube nicht zu weit nach oben drehen dürfen. Preise von 2 bis 3 Euro pro Ausgabe dürften allerdings in einigen Jahren keine Utopie sein; die Zeitung wird zum Luxusprodukt.“
• Zuckerberg: Online Sharing Is Growing At An Exponential Rate (And Users Are Sharing 4 Billion Things A Day) „He explains that if you look at any Facebook user, on average, the amount they share today is twice what they shared a year ago — and in one year they’ll probably be sharing twice as much as they are today. It’s an important trend, and it’s one that Zuckerberg says probably applies to the internet at large rather than just Facebook. But a lot of it is happening on the social network — users are now sharing 4 billion ‘things’ on Facebook every day.“
• Update Your Facebook Status via Google+, Extension-Free [In Brief] „All you need to do is grab your Facebook mobile email address for posting, add it to its own circle, then include that circle whenever you post on Google+ and turn on notifications. This will cause notifications to be sent to the Facebook mobile email address and those updates will be posted to your Facebook account.“
• Wie Google+ für Musiker interessant werden kann

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