My LinkedIn Number

By Todd Carothers, on March 26th, 2011%

             

There was a lot of coverage this week regarding LinkedIn’s promotion recognizing each individual user of their service. My number is 60,733. Each user was sent a Thank You note that identified the user by their registration number. Even more impressive was LinkedIn leveraged other Social Networking . . . → Read More: My LinkedIn Number

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LinkedIn Broke 100M Users; Bring Out The Infographics

By Todd Carothers, on March 23rd, 2011%

             

Read the news yesterday that LinkedIn broke 100 million users. A far cry from Facebook’s 580 million plus, but still an impressive number. Especially when you consider the service is growing at a rate of 1 million users per week. I got to say LinkedIn is the . . . → Read More: LinkedIn Broke 100M Users; Bring Out The Infographics

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Facebook is Becoming the Display Ad Leader

By Todd Carothers, on March 1st, 2011%

             

I have done a few posts covering Facebook and it’s growth and their incredible business engine. Back in September I did a post titled Google Alert: The Search Landscape is Changing. This post explored the growth of Facebook as an advertisement contender and even more, illustrated their new . . . → Read More: Facebook is Becoming the Display Ad Leader

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Facebook Is What We Want [Video]

By Todd Carothers, on February 25th, 2011%

             

Facebook is a wonderful thing. A great way to blur your past and present personal and business personas. A community that is motivated by our collective drive to share personal content that is reviewed and even judged by our “Friends” everyday. With a community of over 500 . . . → Read More: Facebook Is What We Want [Video]

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Thanks to You—Facebook is on its Way to 1 Billion Users

By Todd Carothers, on February 8th, 2011%

             

I have found another infographic covering Facebook that caught my eye (graphic below). Among other data points the infographic points out that the social network experienced 74% growth YoY during 2010. Even more interesting is Facebook has amassed over 585 million users. Within this population 25% are from the . . . → Read More: Thanks to You—Facebook is on its Way to 1 Billion Users

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Problem: Foursquare Is Places Without The Social Network

By Todd Carothers, on January 30th, 2011%

             

I saw that Foursquare had a great year with 3,400 percent growth. The company now has six million users (up from five million just a month ago). They also had 381 million check-ins in 2010 (381,576,305 to be exact).  Not bad for a new startup. For those that . . . → Read More: Problem: Foursquare Is Places Without The Social Network

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Facebook & Twitter have Changed Marketing Forever

By Todd Carothers, on December 23rd, 2010%

             

The folks over at Digital Surgeons have posted a digest of information covering Facebook & Twitter. I think of Facebook as the new “Google” and Twitter as the new source of “Headline News”. It’s interesting to compare the quantitative data that make up the users of the respective . . . → Read More: Facebook & Twitter have Changed Marketing Forever

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