Kent Beatty on December 5th, 2009

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This infographic spans the timeline from 1995 up until today.  The really large social networks exploded into existence during the 2003 – 2006 period:

What’s next?  For one thing: Personal Branding.  According to Chad Levitt, [...]

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Kent Beatty on May 18th, 2009

The fastest accelerating & growing segment on Facebook is the
35-54 Year Olds.

The iStrategists & Peter Corbett over at iStrategy Labs have released their latest granular examination of Facebook’s demographics. (Download 2009 Facebook Demographics and Statistics as an Excel spreadsheet)
The iStrategists’s Top Insights:
1)  The 35-54 year old demo is growing fastest, with a 276.4% growth [...]

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Kent Beatty on April 25th, 2009

 
A Facebook Breakup from the 50’s. 
This is a Facebook Relationship Story from a world that never was.  Enjoy!

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Kent Beatty on August 26th, 2008

We connect, relate, group and network:

Facebook is Number 1 Globally but MySpace is still most popular in the United States. Pingdom.com used Google Insights for Search to compare search volume comparisons across global regions and thereby assess Social Network popularity. They looked at the google data to see where the 12 top social [...]

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