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282 Social Media Monitoring Tools and Services 2011 Report

dolceventure — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:59:33 +0000

View the Presentation of Market Report, May 2011

Mobile market by 2014

dolceventure — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:47:43 +0000

What is the size of mobile market?

How fast is mobile internet growing?

How has mobile usability changed?

How are coupons used on mobile devices?

How much do people use their mobile phones?

What do people use their phones for?

What is the state of social and mobile marketing?

Lear here …

sourse:mashable.com

Social Media Monitoring Tools

dolceventure — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:25:48 +0000

100+ Social Media Monitoring Tools

By Pam Dyer On October 12, 2010

There are countless ways to track and manage your brand’s engagement and reputation on the social Web. Some simple methods consist of leveraging Google Alerts and Twitter Search. But there has been an explosion of more elaborate tools, including Radian6‘s solutions, which offer you a complete listening and engagement platform, and Scout Labs‘ tool that tracks social media and finds signals in the noise.

Here’s a list of social media monitoring tools that might be helpful in your quest to get your arms around social media engagement, measurement, and metrics.

Top 20 social media monitoring vendors for business

By J.D. Lasica and Kim Bale, JANUARY 12, 2011
Socialmedia.biz

A comparison of pricing, features & clients

Mobile first

dolceventure — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:34:33 +0000

We’re seeing more and more apps go “mobile first, web second” these days, and that’s likely to increase going forward. This means that they start as services on mobile devices. So again I ask, why not just get to your actual social graph through your contacts there?

Apps are Big Business

dolceventure — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:50:20 +0000

An independent study released by neutral app store GetJar indicates that the market for mobile apps should grow to a whopping $17.5 billion within the next three years.

This would basically mean that the value of apps sold would be greater than the value of CDs sold in 2012 ($13.83 billion).

Highlights from the report

The annual growth rate for mobile app downloads is 92%
By 2012, off-deck, paid apps will be the biggest source of revenue
In 2009, mobile operators accounted for more than 60% of apps’ revenue
By 2012, mobile operators will account for less than 23% of apps’ revenue
The app store growth (8 to 38 by 2012) is an increase of 375%
Average app selling price is $1.09 in North America, $0.20 in South America and $0.10 in Asia
Revenue opportunities in Europe will grow from $1.5 billion in 2009 to $8.5 billion in 2012
Revenue opportunities in North America will grow from $2.1 billion to around $6.7 billion in 2012
Apps are most popular in Asia where they account for 37% of global downloads this past year
Users spent the most for apps in North America where they account for over 50% of revenue

source: readwriteweb.com, techcrunch.com, getjar.com

Henry Tirri interview: the Future of Mobile

dolceventure — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 07:41:33 +0000

Q: Do you think there will be an upcoming involvement with biology? Are we going to bring these devices into our bodies? Will I have a phone in my wrist?

A: Yeah, chip embedding is already an old idea in computer science so we’re ready for that. I think there’s a natural continuum from biosensors — we already have heartbeat sensors connected to a wireless device and measuring you for sports and wellness purposes. So again, if you talk about the five to ten years era, the questions there are more related to the sensors. In some areas, the sensor development is slower than one would think. Mechanical sensors are faster, but chemical sensors are much slower, so even in the five to ten year domain, certain things are not so easy to do.

When you talk about implantable electronics, you start having … challenges with your biological rejection mechanisms and other problems for medicine to solve. I would say in five years it doesn’t become big, but in ten years I would be surprised if we’re not seeing a lot more of it. Five years is surprisingly fast, because when you think about large scale deployment of something, there’s a delay factor involved in getting the manufacturing process to be reliable and cheap enough.

I do believe health and wellness-related things will become part of our life, and may probably also merge with augmented reality too. Your body state will be communicated to somewhere, or you can start getting metadata and remote analysis on yourself.

Q: How will the advent of 4G change the computing landscape? Will we see new types of applications become possible?

A: This is the capacity question, and right now data-intensive applications cause bandwidth challenges. The interesting thing is we have tolerance thresholds for new features, where we want to keep doing things as long as it’s fast enough, but if the performance is below that threshold, we’ll just tinker with it for a bit and, and I think real-time online media streaming will become more prevalent.

Right now the latency time is not good enough. You can’t have 20 million people streaming their personal video streams around the world in real-time right now — that is not possible yet, but will become so. There will definitely be new applications emerging — it won’t just be the old ones getting faster.

Q: As location-based services become more and more popular, do you see any killer apps emerging?

A: The first things that come to mind are local search, really relevant search results based on your positioning. Social search is another no-brainer, because you want to start finding people based on physical proximity because it doesn’t make any sense to go to the bar with someone far away. These are no-brainers and they will be very big.

The things people don’t usually think about with location-based systems are aggregate things like traffic information, and collective information about air pollution and other environmental data. In growth economies there’s a need for health-related and epidemic information collection. Mobile devices are key to monitoring things like this because they are globally prevalent and always where we are. They will enable us to aggregate data and get information that would otherwise be very difficult to get — I call these aggregate services.

The pollution example is a very good one. You can start to get real-time information about the environment — your exposure to pollution in LA for example. We did this in traffic already, so think about generalizing it to weather, pollution, and others. The platform allows people’s position combined with something measured, and that gives us a new world.

sourse:mashable.com

The growing importance of mobility: David Lynch goes mobile

dolceventure — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 07:05:52 +0000

Award-winning director (and three-time Oscar nominee) David Lynch (of Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks fame) and the David Lynch Foundation Television have teamed up with mobile video marketer Mogreet to bring video MMS messages to Lynch fans. Read more …

source:mashable.com

Iphone app to give a pollen forecast

dolceventure — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 04:58:38 +0000

Japanese company Up-Frontier has developed an iPhone application that will provide a pollen forecast for individuals prone to allergies and hay fever. Through working with the Japan Weather Association and their Weather API, the application can access the latest pollen count on their iPhone. The information can even be shared with friends on Twitter. The ‘Pollen Radar’, the app is currently available in the app store for 115 yen (or approximately US$1.25). Read more …

source: gizmag.com

Using Your Mobile Phone as a Proximity Sensor

dolceventure — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:48:44 +0000

As Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote earlier, “where you are” has became a platform to build added value on top of – just as “who you know” has on Facebook and “what you’re doing” on Twitter. Marshall outlined some current use cases for location data – showing nearby restaurants and ratings, advertising, local news, events, Wikipedia data about local buildings. Read more …

source: readwriteweb.com

Mobile apps to generate untold riches for developers

dolceventure — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:45:04 +0000

Smartphone owners will together spend a staggering $6.2bn on applications this year, market watcher Gartner has forecast.
source:reghardware.co.uk