Is “Hey, it’s for work!” the new “I read it for the articles”?
According to this infographic, based on data from Harris Interactive, lots of us are watching online videos at work — and a good deal of them aren’t work-related.
The 3% who are watching porn probably isn’t surprising (and is most likely under-reported), but 4% are watching feature films? As Jerry Seinfeld might ask, “Who are these people?”
via Online Video at Work: Here’s What You’re Watching [INFOGRAPHIC].
Daily Deals sites are attracting millions of customers. It’s a lively marketplace with hundreds of companies competing for a limited number of users and businesses willing to give them a try.
How lively? It’s hot. According to researchers at Lab42, there are more than 660 deals sites online today. But is this sustainable? Certainly not all those sites will survive. Some of us here at Mashable are questioning whether the Daily Deals era is coming to a close.
Bump, the app that makes it simple to exchange information between mobile devices, has surpassed 10 million active users and 50 million downloads.
The company’s technology allows two users to “bump” their phones and exchange contact information. With the iOS and Android apps, users can also friend or follow each other on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. And late last year, the company introduced a way to share music by bumping.
via Bump Hits 50 Million Downloads; What’s Being Shared? [INFOGRAPHIC].
The new suite of tools allow you to manipulate your videos in a number of ways including color correction, image stabilization, music audio track switching, and it offers a nice menu of filters to enhance the look of your videos.
via YouTube’s new effects menu makes everyone a video editor | DVICE.
Facebook users are seeing a new “View Shares” link beneath news feed stories by friends, Pages, and those they subscribe to. When clicked, it opens a popover window displaying who has reposted that story and any additional context they added. Users will only see shares visible to them, meaning any post published publicly or by one of their friends.
via “View Shares” Link Shows Who Has Reposted Any Facebook News Feed Story.
A brand that embraces feedback — both positive and negative will be seen as open and receptive to its customer base. By acknowledging your imperfections in a transparent and authentic manner, you will find that you have an opportunity to convert some of your most negative critics into your strongest brand advocates.
Look at these examples of how to turn negative feedback into positive spin:
via How to use negative feedback to benefit your brand – iMediaConnection.com.
Specifically, Google has added support for +snippets in Maps. +Snippets, which rolled out in August, adds a link, description and thumbnail to whatever webpage you want to share to Google+. When you click on the “Share” button on the black Google+ bar, the share will be populated with a description and image.
As the last year has been one of the most dynamic years of fans increase for many pages, Socialbakers looked at those with the most substantial growth rate. Some of the pages were launched recently, which speaks for their almost immediate jump. In order to give complete picture, we analyzed the pages based on their countries of origin.
Google debuted its long awaited flight search Tuesday, achieving Concorde-like speed in returning airfares to would-be flyers.
The new search, powered by the data and algorithms it got when it bought ITA Software for $700 million in April, can be found directly at Google.com/flights, or in its usual results when a user types in a query such as “flights from lax to atl.”
Rarely do people get jail time for posting remarks on the Internet. It’s the Internet — it’s only virtual, right? Not for Sean Duffy, who after “trolling” the remembrance pages of several dead teenagers has been in jail for 18 months and is banned from using social networks for five years.
via Man who ‘trolled’ dead girl’s remembrance pages gets jail time | DVICE.