It has been a long time since I last witnessed a creative Twitter campaign created by an Asian brand (or at least half Asian in this case). Turkcell, the leading mobile phone operator [...] Related posts: Google wants to help 50 Million people in 2011 and here’s how Google has started 2011 with charity in [...] Read more »
500 Million Facebook Friends to Sina Weibo [VIDEO]
The movie, The Social Network, a.k.a Facebook movie has a lot of spoofs. If you thought you have seen it all, wait till you see this video which is spreading virally on Sina [...] Related posts: Sina Weibo Hits 140 Million Users In its Q1 2011 financial results announcement, Sina revealed that… China’s Microblog, Sina [...] Read more »
The State of China’s Twitter, Sina Weibo
Sina Weibo is growing fast in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. It currently has over 50 million users and is expecting to hit 100 million by the end of 2011. Gaofei Wang, Vice President of Sina Weibo shared with Mobile World Live in an Interview on its growth phase and briefly on its monetization plan. [...] Read more »
Web Giants’ Resolutions for 2011
A year is coming to a close again. How was 2010 for you, and what resolutions have you planned for a better 2011? The guys at JoyOfTech have wrapped up the year with some resolutions they think our web giants like Twitter, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft will be making for the year 2011. Enjoy and [...] Read more »
Happy 2011!
Happy 2011! We want to thank our readers (you!) for all the support in 2010. Every comment, tweet and share means a lot to us. This year, our traffic has grown by 300 percent. It’s a huge growth rate but in absolute figure, we still have a lot of catching up to do. 2011 will [...] Read more »
LinkedIn Launched Seven Years Ago Today
It took a tweet from LinkedIn Senior Director of Corporate Communications Kay Luo for us to find out, but it’s true: LinkedIn turns seven years old today. While LinkedIn was founded in December of 2002, the actual website didn’t launch until May 5, 2003. That makes it older than Facebook (2004), Twitter (2006), YouTube (2005), [...] Read more »
Foursquare’s Growth Not Slowing Down: 725,000 Users, 22 Million Checkins
Mobile social network Foursquare keeps on releasing new stats on its growth, and why shouldn’t it? The numbers are nothing short of impressive. Just 12 days ago, Foursquare grew by nearly 100,000 users in 10 days, taking its total number of users to somewhere north of 600,000. Now a new update from the company reveals [...] Read more »
Happy Birthday Twitter!
Sunday, March 21st (a few hours from now on the West Coast) marks Twitter’s 4th birthday — exactly four years since Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey sent his first Tweet and, along with Evan Williams and Biz Stone, started a phenomenon. Last month, Twitter hit 50 million Tweets per day, and last summer it was announced [...] Read more »
Lindsay Lohan Sues E-Trade Claiming Baby Ad Is a Parody of Her [VIDEO]
The Super Bowl may be long over, but Brand Battle 2010 continues to rage on, as yet another commercial is bit by the controversy bug — this time one of those adorable spots from E-Trade featuring a talking baby named “Lindsay.” According to the New York Post, actress Lindsay Lohan is suing the investment site [...] Read more »