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Twitter Toddler Now Three, Grows 1300%

Hundreds of thousands -- maybe even millions -- of three-word Tweets flooded the digital realm on Saturday, March 21: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TWITTER. Twitter is now 3 years old. As Ben Parr at Mashable.com states:  "Can you believe that the micro-blogging service Twitter is already three years old? Well, it’s true. Three years ago from today, Twitter Co-founder Jack Dorsey sent his first Tweet and, together with Evan Williams, Biz Stone and others, created a social media company that has grown over 1300% in the last year. (more…)
March 22, 2009
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2009 Trends: Micro-Vlogging @QIK

New Babes in Social Networking  With the rapidly expanding popularity of the micro-blog text byte, it was only a matter of due course that micro-vlogging would be next. Step aside you ten-minute rambling vlogs on YouTube and Myspace, here comes QIK which hosts and promotes video communiques, updates, and dispatches from mobile devices that are less than 60 seconds long. QIK's motto: "Mobile live video sharing for everyone, everywhere!" (more…)
March 17, 2009
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Current Trends in Online Advertising

There's a lot of exciting, innovative things going on in the crazy world of online advertising.  Innovators out there are constantly experiemnting with new ways to enhance brands' online presence, create customer relevance, and making it easy for consumers to find what they want/need when they do their consumasurfing.  This is something the team at Ninthlink fully emphasizes when we work with clients. Here are some recent trends in online advertising... (more…)
March 12, 2009
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Social Networking on the Global Rise

Social Networks and blogs are visited by over two-thirds (67%) of the global online population, making them the fourth most popular online category ahead of email, this according to Nielsen's new "Global Faces and Networked Places" report. The social network and blogging audience is also becoming more diverse in terms of age: the biggest increase in visitors during 2008 to "Member Community" web sites globally came from the 35-49 year old age group (+11.3 million). Meanwhile, mobile continues to play an…
March 10, 2009
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Three Cool Websites

Google Mars! NASA and Google released a new Mars overlay providing 3D views of the canyons and mountains of the Red Planet, part of the beta launch of the downloadable Google Earth 5.0 client application. Choose from a variety of content categories to view the locations of spacecraft landings and major scientific findings. National Geographic also signed a deal to provide a wide range of content to a new Ocean overlay of Google Earth. (more…)
March 10, 2009