Facebook U.S Traffic Up,Twitter & Myspace sees decline
Facebook’s viral nature is doing wonders for it as it is growing steadily in U.S market at a time when Myspace and Twitter are facing jolt in their growth rates. The latest ComScore and other analytical data points at decline in Twitter’s monthly traffic for October.
Twitter’s total U.S visitors on site was down by 8 per cent at 19.2 million in October compared to 20.9 million in September.The traffic on an annual basis is up whopping 1271 Per cent.Facebook’s total unique was up by 4 per cent at 97.4 million while for Myspace it was slightly down at 64 million.
The Twitter’s stagnating phase in U.S Market does not mean overall dip in traffic as the service is finding mainstream usage in many other countries.Facebook certainly is dominating U.S social charts and it needs to be seen – How long Myspace takes to end its loosing spree?
(Via InsideFacebook – Img courtesy)
Google hints at Penalizing Site Publishers for heavy Web pages
It seems webmasters will have one more weighted ranking factor to consider while optimizing the site for Google. Google has hinted that it would make site’s page size a major ranking factor somewhere in 2010.
Google currently has more than 200+ factors at play to judge ratings of Site & Links. This addition if implemented in future will see site owners pushing for lighter pages in order to avoid any ranking penalty. Although lowering of size page increases Ad revenues and page views.
Google has always been trying to make its search page lighter & faster now it seems Google is looking at other ways to improve users experience. Google at the same time could expect to see a little jump in revenues from Adsense as majority of publishers use its Ad network and lowering page will increase the CTR’s of Ads.
(Via Search Engine Land)
Yahoo launches New messenger with various Social Media Features
Yahoo’s renewed interest is widely know through their recent revamp but now it seems those features are getting seen on its desktop messenger.Yahoo has announced that its new Messenger is now publicly available with addition of many social features.
The big features include support for social streaming allowing users to see what their contacts are doing on Twitter,last.fm and Yahoo buzz.The service also allows users to reply to contacts updates inline with status message thus saving time.
The other features includes addition of high quality along with better synchronized sound quality.Yahoo is definitely trying hard to make its users more stickier to its services by allowing access to plethora of social services. Perhaps this strategy of providing Open access to other social services can work better rather than competing with one.
Get it here.
(Via DownloadSquad)
Transmute – Transfer Bookmarks Between Any Browser
Transferring bookmarks is a pain as many new browsers like Chrome do not support inter-synching of bookmarks with another browsers. Despite availability of tools like delicious extensions, X-marks bookmarks are not easily transferable. Transmute can transfer bookmarks from one browser to another with a lot of ease.
Transmute is a pretty nifty tool to transfer bookmarks by choosing the source and destination browsers and does not require any manual exporting of bookmarks. It does so by transferring & overwriting bookmark file in applicable format.
(Via makeuseof )
MobileFacebook: Use Facebook Mobile version on Desktop
Twitter & Facebook are seeing surge in usage from all sorts of desktop and email apps. MobileFacebook, an AIR app allows us to use Facebook’s simplified mobile version from Desktop. It basically emulates iPhone interface to easily send updates and check News Feeds.
The app despite its mobile interface provides enough function than just News feed and Status update.To use this App make sure you have Adobe AIR installed.Other notable desktop clients for Facebook includes Digsby, Seesmic .
(Via Life Rocks 2.0)
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