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5 Minutes of Facebook Celebrity

February 04, 2010

Notice anything different about your friends on Facebook? Suddenly they all look a bit more like celebrities! The latest trend to hit Facebook has been to replace your profile picture with one of your celebrity doppelganger. Last week, the top... Continue reading...

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 07:00 PM | (0) | (0)
In Categories Facebook | Social Media | Social Networking

Facebook Largest News Reader?

February 03, 2010

Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read Write Web had an interesting piece suggesting that Facebook could become the world's leading news reader. A recent Facebook company blog entry encouraged members to set up a news feed on Facebook. Kirkpatrick contends that with... Continue reading...

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 06:06 PM | (2) | (4)
In Categories News and Media | Social Networks

iPad – which Aussie telco has the best audience fit with Apple?

February 02, 2010

Last week Alan and Robin wrote about the hype leading up to the announcement of the Apple iPad. In Australia, major telcos are well aware of consumers' interest in the iPad, and are keen to replicate the success of the... Continue reading...

Posted by Sandra Hanchard at 12:21 PM | (0) | (0)
In Categories iPad

UK Internet Map (as featured on the BBC’s Virtual Revolution)

If you managed to catch the first episode of the BBC’s excellent Internet documentary, Virtual Revolution, on Saturday night you may have noticed occasional flashes of “Source: Experian Hitwise” at the bottom of your screen. In amongst interviews with such... Continue reading...

Social network impact for retailers

January 29, 2010

Social networking has become the most popular activity online and visits to the category represented 13% of all US Internet visits in December. As the social networking audience continues to grow, the category has become a major source of traffic... Continue reading...

Christmas Dinner – Homemade cheesecakes in; roast potatoes out

Guest blog by Jonny Steel, Marketing Insights Manager, mySupermarket.co.uk With Christmas now behind us, it’s time to look back at how our eating habits changed during one of the most financially challenging festive seasons for years. mySupermarket.co.uk, the grocery shopping... Continue reading...

Affluent shoppers increase during holidays

January 28, 2010

Last week, during our Holiday Recap webinar, we examined how the demographic profiles of the visitors to the Retail 500 shifted in 2009 as compared to the previous year. When looking at the household income of visitors during the peak... Continue reading...

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 06:40 PM | (0) | (0)
In Categories Holiday | Retail | fashion

Apple Tablet the fourth most searched for laptop in the UK

January 26, 2010

Apple’s much anticipated – but not yet even announced, just rumoured – Tablet PC became the fourth most searched for laptop model in the UK last week. The table below is from the latest Hitwise Hot Consumer Electronics List, and... Continue reading...