Showing posts with label social networking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social networking. Show all posts

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Threadsy

MacAppStorm is an amazing website to keep an eye on if you are a mac lover. They do excellent reviews and preview up and coming mac based applications. Today one caught my eye called Threadsy. Luckily MacAppStorm were giving away 500 beta invites to Threadsy - so I signed myself up.

Threadsy integrates your email and social networking sites (Twitter and Facebook at present) into one easy to use window. It's easy to track tweets/conversations, easy to navigate and for the hour I've been using it I am impressed! :)


Twitter refreshes quickly and you can easily navigate to a user to reply, retweet, direct message and see their profile. All in the same window. One feature that I absolutely love is the way that youtube links play straight in the twitter stream. You can easily view and play it from within the person's tweet and still access a full size version as well.


For email you are able to complete all the normal email tasks - reply, forward, read and delete your emails. You can choose a number of ways to view your email through a list or quick view, where it gives you a snippet of the email. I use gmail, which allows your to 'star' important messages. I was delighted to see that these transfer into Threadsy and it also allows you to star new messages inside Threadsy. It seems as though all aspects of email have been considered and applied to Threadsy.

At present I'm only using this for gmail and twitter, but I am keen to give Facebook a whirl as well to see how easily it integrates the 3. There is a sound setting that you can set to notify you of new notifications but this is easily removed. I will be playing with it a bit more and am interested to see if it will takeover from my Tweetie application for twitter. For now, I'm loving the all-in-one integration!

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Facebook Statistics

This is pretty cool. Following a tweet from @kerryank on Facebook statisticss. These stats are pretty impressive and interesting! Showing the growth and popularity of social networking sites. There are several other pages that show the timeline and growth in popularity of Facebook over it's 5 year existence. You can see the original page here.

Facebook Statistics
General Growth

* More than 175 million active users
* More than half of Facebook users are outside of college
* The fastest growing demographic is those 35 years old and older

User Engagement

* Average user has 120 friends on the site
* More than 3 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide)
* More than 18 million users update their statuses at least once each day
* More than 4 million users become fans of Pages each day

Applications

* More than 850 million photos uploaded to the site each month
* More than 7 million videos uploaded each month
* More than 28 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) shared each month
* More than 2 million events created each month
* More than 25 million active user groups exist on the site

International Growth

* More than 35 translations available on the site, with more than 60 in development
* About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States

Platform

* More than 660,000 developers and entrepreneurs from more than 180 countries
* More than 52,000 applications currently available on Facebook Platform
* 140 new applications added per day
* More than 95% of Facebook members have used at least one application built on Facebook Platform

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