NEWS and STUFF Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings Nielsen: U.S. Consumers App Downloads Up 28% To 41; 4 Of The 5 Most Popular Still Belong To Google How’s The Gold Rush Panning Out? 70% Of Mobile App Users Pay Little Or Nothing, Study Says Gartner: Q1 2012 Phone Sales Declined 2%, Dragged Down By Asia-Pacific. [...]

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EVENT ALERT Social Mix 2012 – Toronto – July 26, 2012 NEWS Google Sites Top Facebook On Mobile; 4 Out Of 5 Mobile Media Minutes Spent In Apps Smartphones Top Computers For U.S. Facebook Time In March 2012 Nomophobia: 66 Percent Are Afraid To Be Separated From Cell Phones, Survey Shows   TIPS, TRICKS and TOOLS [...]

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NEWS Hessie: Facebook Acquires Instagram: Brand Implications Martin: Gartner Predicts 665 Million Tablets In Use By 2016, Over 45% Of Them iPad Devices Steve: IAB Canada Releases Detailed Mobile In Canada Report To Accompany IAB US Global Mobile Anthology TIPS, TRICKS & TOOLS Hessie: Blurtt - another photo app but cooler Martin: Arq – Pro level cloud backup [...]

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LINKS Six-Year-Old Twitter Now Has 140M Active Users Sending 340M Tweets Per Day Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz And Khosla Back Big Data Startup ClearStory The Echo Nest CEO On What Big Data Means To The Music Industry BloomReach Crunches Big Data To Deliver The Future Of SEO and SEM Tracx Secures $4.4 Million To Bring [...]

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EVENTS Podcamp Toronto - Check out Hessie’s Session Info NEWS LinkedIn Adds An Embeddable Follow Button For Company Sites Washington Post Tests Personalized News Program Microsoft To Replace “Live” Branding With “Microsoft Account” In Windows 8 850K Daily Android Activations, 300M Total Devices, Says Andy Rubin Joustin’ Beaver App Maker Served A Cease & Desist Order [...]

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NEWS Flurry: Mobile Ads Still Get The Short Straw In Brand Spend; Women Driving eCPMs For The Young, Smartphones No Longer A Luxury Item Barnes & Noble Misses In Q3; NOOK Business Up 38 Percent To $542M It’s On: 8GB Nook Tablet Takes Aim At Kindle Fire With $199 Price Tag World’s Cheapest Tablet Launched [...]

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NEWS Google Search Plus Your World Facebook, Twitter & Myspace Engineers build bookmarklet to stop Google SPY World Google Vs. Twitter: Is “Search Plus Your World” Bad For The Internet? Think of Google+ as YouTube, not Google Video Things to do before quitting your job at Google Lady Gaga joins Google+, gains 10,000 followers in [...]

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 News Top 10 Negative Keyword Categories for Christmas Search Campaigns WordPress.com Introduces WordAds because you deserve Better than Adsense Black Friday E-Commerce Spending Up 26 Percent To A Record $816M; Amazon Most Visited Retailer Record Cyber Monday Online Spending Up Over 20 Percent To $1.25B PayPal Cyber MondayMobilePayment Volume Up Over 500 Percent Tips, Tricks [...]

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 LINKS Boxing Day Search Results from 2010 (Coming soon) 50% Of Ecommerce Site Visitors Are Logged In To Facebook comScore: U.S. Online Holiday Shopping Already Up 14 Percent To $9.7 Billion Holiday Spending (in Canada) to Increase and Move Online Will you Miss the Holiday Search Bliss? 4.74 — Facebook Wins By Getting Us Closer [...]

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