Recent IFPI report on digital music reveals the size of Spotify in Europe and how much money it’s actually churning for the record labels. The report also stated that on a European level, Spotify is the second single largest source of revenue for record labels. This means that 2010 saw dramatic increase in its usage as well as payouts to record labels and artists themselves.
The report states that digital music revenues grew by 20 percent in Europe in 2010. Record labels still rely heavily on sale of physical music, CDs etc. and in total digital music only accounted for about 20% of music sales in 2010. Continue Reading
Ever wonder about the social media demographics on different social sites, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Digg, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon MySpace, Ning and Reddit ? The Infographic below takes a detailed look at who is using which sites. The infographic is created by Flowtown and was generated using data from Google Ad Planner.
The gender distribution on the social networks showed that majority of Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Ning users are females, where as with Reddit and Digg its the other way round. LinkedIn is the only social network that has almost an equal number of male and female users. Click the image below to see the full infographic.
Think all you have to worry about when you log into Twitter, Facebook or FourSquare is the threat of an annoying spam attack, a viral worm or the release of your private information? Think again, and take caution. Sophisticated hackers are now using social networking sites as home base to launch targeted attacks, according to a new report from security firm Mandiant.
Mandiant’s annual “M-Trends” report, says the company has observed an increasing number of “Advanced Persistent Threats” that are hijacking legitimate social networks and Web based services, including Facebook, Google Chat and MSN as command and control networks for malware installations.
Mandiant warned APT attackers will, in the future, “increasingly leverage the broad array” of social networking sites to conduct their operations because they are widely available, offer anonymity and provide more versatility. Continue Reading
The day after LinkedIn’s IPO plans were revealed to the world, a positive sign has been released from pre-IPO secondary market SharesPost. In an email shared with Adviction, the company has announced the completion of a LinkedIn shares auction. Investors purchased 95,500 shares of LinkedIn common stock at a clearing price of $30.79 per share.
According to the email, “The response of theSharesPost community to the auction was substantial and the auction was significantly oversubscribed.”
SharesPost has more than 50,000 members, according to an email released earlier this month, and has provided an active platform for trading shares in private white-hot social media companies, including Facebook, Twitter, Digg and others. Continue Reading
You can Join it for a one day conference dedicated to fostering the growth and success of the Flash games community. The conference will bring together leaders in the Flash game space to share industry insights and strategies on successful game design, development and monetization.
This is an industry-driven event, so who better to decide on the content than the industry itself? The Advisory Board represents the Flash games industry and will determine who the speakers will be this year.
A scientist at the network security company Arbor Networks has used data from 80 Internet service providers around the world to create an image of the Internet block in Egypt.
The graphic, which was compiled using anonymous traffic engineering statistics, shows traffic to and from Egypt dropping sharply around 5:20 p.m. ET. As of about three hours ago, traffic has not picked back up.
Craig Labovitz, the creator of the graphic and chief scientist at Arbor Networks, says that he found no evidence of Internet disruption in Syria, debunking a report from Al Arabiya earlier Friday that suggested all service in Syria had been cut off.
Reports are coming in that Egypt is now under an Internet and SMS blackout, just hours before a new series of major protests are planned against the regime of President Hosni Mubarak.
Sebone, a major Egyptian service provider based in Italy, is reporting that no Internet traffic is entering or exiting the country as of 12:30 a.m. Egyptian time. Reporters and citizens on the ground are also reporting that they are experiencing Internet and SMS outages.
Egypt has been enveloped in unrest over the presidency of Hosni Mubarak, who has been in power since 1981. The protests have been partly inspired by the successful revolution in Tunisia that forced President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali out of power after 23 years. Facebook, Twitter and social media were key communication tools used by protesters to organize rallies.
Just like Tunisia, Egyptian protesters have been utilizing social media to organize their own protests, using hashtags such as #Jan25 to communicate. In response to the protests, Egyptian authorities blocked Twitter and Facebook. Egyptian police have been cracking down on protesters using water cannons and tear gas.
“I suspect the Internet cutoff is just a fraction of what the government has in store for Friday,” CNN’s Ben Wederman, who is on the ground in Egypt, said on Twitter earlier today.
This is an interesting report from Zone Alarm where they have beautifully shown how the hackers get to know the passwords of millions of internet users around the world. Its really vulnerable and now with the Social Wave The security is on a new toss. Don’t forget to check this and then re-checking your password .
Now this is nice. If you’re a heavy Gmail user you’ve probably installed some kind of desktop notification system — be it a browser extension, a separate Gmail app like Mailplane and/or Growl. But now, hot on the heels of launching a dynamic unread count in browser tabs, Gmail is launching something that doesn’t require any downloads: built-in desktop notifications.
A small banner on Gmail just prompted me to enable the feature, which works for both inbound chat and email messages (you can opt to receive notifications for all new emails, or just ‘Important’ ones as deemed by your Priority Inbox). Google is probably rolling this out gradually (there’s no blog post yet), but I’m seeing it in both of my accounts.
The ‘Help’ page for the feature is blank (despite the fact that the banner links to it) so details are still pretty scant. This is presumably using HTML5 browser notifications, and is apparently only working in Chrome — I tried testing it in Safari and received this message:
In practice it seems to work fairly well, though I think I’ll be sticking with Growl for now. I’m noticing that the notifications don’t have a minimum time that they’ll apear on screen — if a friend of mine sends multiple IMs in succession, the newest will immediately pop up over the older ones. Even worse, it looks like there’s no timeout for the notification — a friend just IMed me, and her notification has been hanging out in the corner of my screen for a full minute now.
Within a matter of hours after the tragic suicide bombing in Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport this afternoon, eyewitness footage was already going up on YouTube. One video in particular has been circulating, with coverage on Russia Today, CNN, and other news sources, and more YouTube videos are continuing to pop up. We’re likely to see more over the next few hours and days.
The video that is getting the most coverage thus far is amateur footage of the site just moments after the bombing, dust filling the air. The source of the video is not clear at this time. CNN sources YouTube.com/Russian.StateTv, which is not a correct YouTube URL, and Russia Today does not provide a source. The footage has been copied and uploaded by a huge number of different YouTube users.
More footage of the outside of the airport surfaced on YouTube a little bit later on in the day and Russia Today has been uploading extensive content to their YouTube page.
Regardless of who shot the original eyewitness footage, I think that the power of web video and citizen journalism is becoming clearer and clearer. When someone at the scene of an event or tragedy, such as the tragedy that occurred today in Moscow, all they have to do is whip out a cellular phone with a camera, shoot a quick video and upload it to YouTube and the world will be able to see what they have seen and what they are going through. Major events can get worldwide coverage within a matter of minutes, or the time it takes to upload the video to YouTube.
I try not to pay too much attention to the news because it brings me down. However, I like to know when something major happens, such as the Arizona shooting earlier this month or today’s terrorist attack in Moscow. And guess what? I found out about both these things, within hours after they happened, via YouTube and Twitter—not from CNN or any other official news source. I think we can safely say that citizen journalism and social media are the future of the news. What do you think?
On a personal note, my deepest condolences to anyone who was effected by today’s tragedy and the friends and family of the 35 dead and 152 wounded.
Recent IFPI report on digital music reveals the size of Spotify in Europe and how much money it’s actually churning for the record labels. The report also stated that on a European level, Spotify is the second single largest source of revenue for record labels. This means that 2010 saw dramatic increase in its usage as well as payouts to record labels and artists themselves.
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