Facebook: #4 Traffic Source
Hitwise: Facebook is the #4 source of visits to news and media, after Google, Yahoo, and MSN; http://j.mp/c557Bo
Tagged: Feeds RSS
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Gerrit Eicker
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Gerrit Eicker
Facebook: Tomorrows Feed Reader
There are plenty of reasons why Facebook might become the most popular (not best) feed reader; http://j.mp/bX36jI
Gerrit Eicker
Custom Feeds for Any Webpage
Google Reader adds the ability to create custom feeds to track changes on any webpage; http://j.mp/8fVZ34
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Tom Carnell
Have you tried Femtoo? Femtoo is an advanced version of this and but ALSO has these key features:
- Monitor particular parts of a page
- Parse data and check for particular conditions (share price hit a certain amount etc)
- Premium accounts can create ‘low latency’ trackers for critical monitoring applications
- Receive notifications via email, Instant Messenger and soon SMS (I think)
- Add a ‘widget’ to any page to allow people to ’subscribe’ to a ‘tracker’
- It uses the amazing cQuery Server-side CSS Content Selection Engine
- You can publish ‘trackers’ to the ‘Tracker Library’ and anybody can subscribe.tom
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Gerrit Eicker
No I didn’t, thanks for the hint. (BTW: Sorry, your post was marked as spam.)
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Gerrit Eicker
RSS
Winer: RSS is the universal language of realtime; http://j.mp/4Siqhi
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NewsCred Pro
NewsCred goes Pro: eliminate NewsCred branding, customized layouts, personal domain, own advertising; http://j.mp/5iorXb
Gerrit Eicker
RSS is Not eMail
Winer: Google Reader dominates the market and its view of RSS as email is wrong. RSS is not email; http://j.mp/81Hls4
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Gerrit Eicker
Twitter and Newspapers
The use of Twitter by newspapers in the U.S.; http://j.mp/7k5j6r and a ranking of their Twitter IQ; http://j.mp/5iy15b
Gerrit Eicker
HuffPo Goes Twitvertising
The Huffington Post has started offering marketers the ability to place paid tweets; http://j.mp/5orXsk
Gerrit Eicker
Feed Readers are Changing
The Web is about streams and feeds, but the feed readers are changing: RWW lists the top services; http://j.mp/5sLrta
Gerrit Eicker 08:03 on 4. February 2010 Permalink |
Facebook: “At any given time, the news on your home page can consist of celebrity gossip posted by your sister, sports scores from the ESPN Page, and a political debate among your friends as they cite their favorite blogs. With so much information at your fingertips on one site, Facebook can serve as your personalized news channel.”
Hitwise: “News and Media is the #11 downstream industry after Facebook, receiving 3.69% of the social networking site’s traffic. To offer a comparison, 6% of downstream traffic from Facebook went to Shopping and Classifieds last week and 6% to Business and Finance and 15% went to Entertainment websites (YouTube in particular). … Facebook could be a major disruptor to the News and Media category. And with the Wall Street Journal already publishing content to Facebook, perhaps the social network can avoid the run-ins that Google has suffered recently with Rupert Murdoch. We will continue to watch this space.”
RWW: “Facebook is the player to watch. Facebook – the dreaded privacy-violating, Farmville-drenched, closed-data, social networking megalith (which is also fun to use and great in many ways) – could be the web’s best hope for transforming the world through the power of online syndication and subscription.”
VB: “All of the metrics services rank Facebook in the top 5 of all internet sites. The only sites that get more traffic are search engines (Google) and portals (Yahoo and MSN). Clearly the status updates Facebook users post to their pages have the power to drive large amounts of traffic to media sources when links are provided.“