links for 2008-01-16

by Rachel on January 16th, 2008

apophenia: The Economist Debate on Social “Networking”

A view on using social networks in the classroom

(tags: education SocialNetworking research)
comScore and Google U.K. Reveal Importance of Search Engines

The use of online search for booking travel. Users take about a month from first look, visting sites an average of 2.5x

(tags: research Comscore)
Online Ad Spend by Industry - December 2007 - Marketing Charts

Dec 2007 Online ad spending in the US. Financial services are more than double the next, Telcomms.

(tags: metrics statistics)
1-800-Flowers hooks up with YouTube, Google in new effort - PRWeek US

Overview of 1-800-flowers.com partnership with YouTube, which starts a year long partnership with their Valentine video contest

(tags: advertising socialnetwork youtube)
Ning Blog - Nowheremen

Using Ning to host a SNS to support Nowheremen. TV programme starts next week, there’s been a hunt running on the site to support it and engage prospective viewers.

(tags: args transmedia)
With friends like these … Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian

A look at Facebook and politics

(tags: facebook privacy socialsoftware analysis)

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