Monthly Archives: February 2010

Yahoo to be eclipsed by Bing Search in 2010

Comscore released the January 2010 rankings for search engines in the U.S. last week (source). In the release comScore indicated that Google lost 0.3% share of core search in the US in January 2010 (see below). This is the first indication that Google may be …

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Goggle Buzz fails to make gmail social

Google made headlines today with their first foray into social activity streaming (source). The new feature is basically like a Twitter tweet or a Facebook wall post embedded into gmail (Google’s email service). To test it out, I tried it both on my desktop and …

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Half of top online retailers have no meaningful Facebook presence [STUDY]

According to a study by ForeSee Results, only 25% of the top 100 online retailers have a Facebook page and another 25% have less than 10,000 fans. These statistics are shocking, especially since the recent news that Facebook now has grown to over 400 million …

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Einstein’s Facebook Bagel Giveaway – The Aftermath

Did you get your free bagel on Facebook? A few weeks ago, Einstein Bros. Bagels offered a coupon for a free bagel to Facebook users who became a fan. All you had to do was become a fan of Einstein Bros. Bagels, print out the …

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Saints: 31, Super Bowl Advertisers: 0

I didn’t notice this until about halfway through the Super Bowl when Gary Vaynerchuk pointed it out. It seemed despite the millions of dollars big brands spent on Super Bowl ads this year, not one (at least that I saw) specifically directed people to their …

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