Category: Web
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Impacts of Skype growth
SkypeJournal guest blogger Jean Mercier has an interesting story about the continuing growth of Skype. Stats on numbers of downloads of the app you install on your computer to actually use the service – now approaching 300 million according to…
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Expect the unexpected the next time you buy
More evidence of changes in traditional marketing that will change consumer behaviours. If you think that a Coca-Cola vending machine will only dispense Coke, think again: Anyone slotting money into a Coca-Cola vending machine in Dublin may find a lot…
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The blogosphere continues to grow
The latest stats on the English-language blogosphere from Technorati show continued growth, maintaining the doubling in size that has been consistent for the past few years: Summary: Technorati now tracks over 35.3 million blogs (English language) The blogosphere is doubling…
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The numbered days of traditional ad creation
Firefox Flicks, the grassroots marketing campaign designed to increase awareness of the Firefox browser, ended on Friday. Run by Mozilla, the contest resulted in over 250 30-second advertising videos being created and submitted by Firefox enthusiasts. Last week, Mozilla began…
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Multi lingua francas
Three separate but possibly related things about language and culture. BL Ochman writes about an English-language dilemma: In WebProWorld’s Google forum today, (registration required) the publisher of an Irish travel site wonders whether Google penalizes for spellings in Oxford English…