Blackglass Blog

Facebook Places vs Foursquare vs Google

Facebook announced the launch of Facebook Places, a direct competitor to the location based social network Foursquare.

Posted August 23rd, 2010

20% of Tweets are Brand-Oriented

A study by a research team at Penn State has found that 20% of Tweets tend to be brand-related…

Posted July 21st, 2010

New Bells & Whistles Take Email Social

To single out one example, ExactTarget recently launched a tool that integrates e-mail marketing into Twitter.

Posted July 21st, 2010

One in ten minutes spent online spent is on Facebook or Youtube

A new worldwide study from ComScore has shown that whilst Microsoft…

Posted July 21st, 2010

Real-Time Search: Twitter, Facebook and Beta-Bing

For Bing the move is one step in many that Microsoft will take toward understanding user intent with Bing…

Posted July 21st, 2010

Google, Bing getting social about search

Google has announced a tie up with Twitter to allow access to the volumes of data posted every minute.

Posted July 21st, 2010

Online display advertising stalling

The Australian online advertising continues to grow strongly according to the latest OAER.

Posted July 21st, 2010