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Twitter Sees 347% Growth in Mobile Browser Access
In: web resources
4 Mar 2010
There’s good reason tweets are limited to 140 characters – the microblogging social network was developed specifically with mobile in mind and 140 characters is the size limit for a text message. With that in mind, it’s no surprise that Twitter has experienced a 347% jump since a year ago in people accessing the site via mobile browser.
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According to a comScore report, both Twitter and Facebook have experienced significant increases in mobile browser access over the past year.
“Social networking remains one of the most popular and fastest-growing behaviors on both the PC-based Internet and the mobile Web,” said Mark Donovan, comScore senior vice president of mobile, in the company’s press release. “Social media is a natural sweet spot for mobile.”
Just over 30% of smartphone users access social networking sites using a mobile browser, comScore reports, up from 22% just a year ago. Access to Facebook using a mobile browser grew 112% while Twitter grew a whopping 347%.
What do these numbers mean in terms of actual number of visitors? According to comScore, Facebook saw 25.1 million mobile users in January 2010, Myspace had 11.4 million and Twitter 4.7 million. As the report points out, “these figures do not include access of the social networking services by the nearly 6 million mobile phone owners who do so exclusively through mobile applications.”
As smartphones continue to grow in popularity, social networking services will get more and more traffic from mobile use, and we wouldn’t be surprised to see mobile access overtake other methods of access at some point in the future.
Kooaba Debuts Image Recognition API
In: web resources
4 Mar 2010
Image recognition technology startup Kooaba yesterday released an API that definitely deserves some developer attention.
The Swiss company aims to unlock its library of over 10 million images, ranging from album covers to books and movie posters, and provide access to all that precious data via the cloud.
Kooaba hopes that the launch of the API will trigger third-party developers to develop more mobile applications – iPhone and Android versions exist already – or tools that tap into social networking services like Facebook and Twitter, etcetera.
Here’s a video of Kooaba for iPhone in case you’re familiar with the company and its offering:
Microsoft And Partners Are About To Add A Big Fat Social Layer To Outlook
In: web resources
12 Feb 2010
In November 2009, when Microsoft announced the release of the public beta of Microsoft Office 2010, the company also introduced an entirely new add-on for its Outlook product that we haven’t heard a peep about since.
That’s about to change soon.
The product, dubbed Outlook Social Connector, essentially aims to make Outlook more social by integrating streams from Windows Live and third-party networks directly into the widely used communication app and its familiar interface, among other features that will enhance the functionality of Outlook and other Microsoft products like SharePoint.
For more information about how Social Connector, check our previous post and/or watch this video from Channel 9.
Microsoft and its initial launch partner, LinkedIn, didn’t share many details about the product at the time of the initial announcement but stated that it would be made available ‘early 2010′. Since then, it’s been very quiet about the product.
A public beta version of Outlook Social Connector will be available next week, sources now tell us, and we also hear Microsoft will be announcing a number of additional partners that have been brought on board alongside LinkedIn. These partners include social network juggernauts such as Facebook and MySpace, which are of course far less business-oriented than products and services like Outlook and LinkedIn.
While a lot of people will appreciate the ability to see status updates from and interact with friends from multiple social networking services straight from their Outlook application, I have a feeling their managers and their employers’ IT departments will be far less enthusiastic about Social Connector.
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