Tech Post #3

comScore: Facebook Keeps Gobbling People’s Time

 

I found this article on TechCrunch, and it's about how people much time people are spending on Facebook. Facebook is now the top dog when it comes to social networking with it's U.S. audience totaling to 153.9 million alone. Facebook has become the 4th most visited web property. "The total time spent on Facebook in December 2010 vs December 2009 surged 79 percent to 49.4 billion minutes." While Facebook's aduience and page views are increasing, MySpace's are decreasing. "its audience declined 27 percent and total time spent on the site declined 50 percent." Facebook has become so popular that it "even surpassed Google, Yahoo and Microsoft in terms of time spent on each site, according to comScore’s data." Facebook has a strong "command over internet users time on the web" so it's "no wonder advertisers are flocking to the social network to reach users." I picked this article because I know that many of friends and that I, myself, spend quite a lot of time on Facebook, and it was interesting to how Facebook has gained so much power in terms of internet domination.

 

Here is a link to the full article: http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/07/comscore-facebook-keeps-gobbling-peoples-time/

Tech Post #2

ComScore Says You Don’t Got Mail: Web Email Usage Declines, 59% Among Teens!

 

I found this article on TechCrunch, and it's about how teens are using e-mail less and less every year as a way of communication. "Total web email usage was down 8% in the past year (YOY), with a whopping 59% decline in use among people between the ages of 12-17." Teens are moving from e-mail to using Facebook, twitter, and texting as forms of communication. I think this will affect the different web emails services and how people will start/continue to communicate with each other. I picked this article because I found it interesting due to the fact I am a part of this trend. I dont really use email too much anymore and I tend to forget to check it which can cause some communication problems.

 

Here is a link to the full article: http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/07/comscore-says-you-dont-got-mail-web-email-usage-declines-59-among-teens/

Tech Post #1

Google Apps Marketplace Gets An Education Category

Google has recently decided to add an additional category to their app store, Google Apps Marketplace. Since Google Apps Marketplace has been created it has grown to have over 200 apps from various startups. However, Google wants to continue expanding their marketplace by adding a new category that will have numerous education apps. The category will have "over 20 applications from 19 vendors including specialized apps for schools and universities." These applications will range from social learning games to grading software to math teaching tools and much more. This article was interesting to me because I am Secondary Math Education major, and it will be interesting to see what Google comes up with in the near future.

I found this article on TechCrunch. Here is the link to the article.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/25/google-apps-marketplace-gets-an-education-category/