Tools for tracking your footprints on the Web

I’ve been reading around different social media-related sources, and am finding that last year’s growing interest in measurement tools for word-of-mouth has bloomed into practicality. There is now an exponentially-increasing amount of tools to help track web PR or what some would call “virality” (altough the term is now somewhat obsolete), and even actual conversations on live micro-blogging applications such as Twitter, FriendFeed and the likes.
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Facebook now twice as big as MySpace

Caroline McCarthy from CNET’s TheSocial blog writes about ComScore’s recent statistics, showing that the world-famous social networking site has nearly double the amount of traffic than MySpace.

(From TheSocial): “The blogosphere’s love affair with Facebook-MySpace traffic wars just won’t stop.

On Thursday, TechCrunch posted new statistics from ComScore that show Facebook now pulling in nearly twice as many unique visitors worldwide as its News Corp.-owned competitor.

About 222 million people visited Facebook worldwide in December (keep in mind that the social network pegs its active user count somewhere just north of 150 million these days) versus 125 million people for MySpace.”

Read the full article here.

Righting the Wrong in Mobile Marketing

[from my blog AdKrispies]

Did you happen to read Deloitte’s latest TMT Predictions for 2009? Every year since 2006, Deloitte produces this interesting study debrief on what movements to expect in the fields of Technology, Media and Telecommunications — and their impact on canadian businesses. It’s usually very insightful and well-documented, and indeed — as they say — it “…provides a diverse selection of views and thoughts that challenge, inform and engage industry leaders and executives.”

Well, case in hand, they truly did challenge me. A friend of mine posted a Tweet that attracted my attention on point 8 in their “2009 Canadian TMT Predictions” PDF : “Mobile advertising finds its meaning: cellphones are the new billboards“. Wow. I read on with more attention, making sure I wasn’t distracted by all the dinosaur roaring behind me. I read on, thinking there had to be a deeper thought or explanation hiding somewhere in the body copy.
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