2008 State of the Blogosphere

New research from Technorati:
37,500 new blog posts per hour, or 10.4 new blog posts per second
2008 State of the Blogosphere – Website Magazine – Website Magazine
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Teens Say Social Life would end if they couldn’t text

Had to share a fascinating survey results from from CTIA and Harris Interactive (via MarketingCharts).
Here are some highlights:

Four out of five teens (17 million) carry a wireless device
A majority (57 percent) of teens view their cell phone as the key to their social life.
Teens admitted spending nearly an equal amount of time talking as they [...]

Using Social Psychology Findings for Email Subject Lines

One of the great things about online marketing is that there are a wealth of free webinars and training sessions available online that actually teach you something.
One that I had to share is Marketing Experiment’s Webinar on how to optimize headlines. You MUST spend a moment watching this webinar. It will teach you how to [...]

Google’s Future Focus – Your Best Friend

Ah.  I was waiting for this. When Google admits that it’s future focus is to fulfill Ray Kurzweil’s prediction.
As context, here’s Ray’s assertion:
As with all of the other manifestations of information technology, we are also making exponential gains in reverse-engineering the human brain….By 2029, sufficient computation to simulate the entire human brain, [...]

A bit of fun – Social Media Campaigns for Boring Products

Just in case you were convinced that a product has to be cool to succeed in social media, here are a few examples of how social media campaigns can even help boring products or services.

Email template to ask for blog links

I found this template on Performancing.com and wanted to share.
Subject Line
Interesting article: Top 10 Mistakes New Homebuyers Make
Message
Hi [blogger's name],
My name is Dee Barizo. I write at Real Estate Blog, found at http://www.mysite.com/.
I recently published an article I thought you and your readers might be interested in. Based on my experience as a real [...]

Finally! An easy way for me to find my Doppelganger!

Google announced today that it’s newest version of Picassa will have facial recognition software built in and will automatically suggest other photos online that look similar.
I think it’s very helpful of Google to create a way for us to find our doppelganger. I can see future meetups of people who look alike but grew up [...]

Google’s New Browser – We Are not invading your privacy

I find Google’s most recent moves fascinating.  We’ve known that they are rolling out what is called “personalized search” – results that are influenced by what Google knows about you.  So when you are logged into your iGoogle page, or gmail,  they gather information about you from: email, newsreader, docs, bookmarks, search history, search result [...]