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Time spent on social networks almost doubled in a year

by John Einar Sandvand on January 25, 2010 · 3 comments

Global web users spent on average five and a half hours on social network sites in December. That is an increase in time spent of 82 per cent in one year, according to the latest number from Nielsen.

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8 digital media trends to watch in 2010

by John Einar Sandvand on January 14, 2010 · 13 comments

User payment, e-reading and more clever advertising solutions. Those are some of the online media trends that will put their mark on 2010.

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Why newsrooms should innovate

by John Einar Sandvand on September 8, 2009 · 1 comment

Newsrooms must innovate – and in this video slide series you get a lot of tips about why and how. The videos are made by CoPress to inspire journalists in college papers, but I think many of their points are just as valid for professional newsrooms.

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Young people are flooding in to Twitter

by John Einar Sandvand on September 2, 2009 · 2 comments

It was close to an established truth: Twitter has been mostly for grown-ups. Yet that seems now to change. Recent numbers from Comscore demonstrates how the younger age groups now have the highest growth on Twitter.

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Chief editor of Wired magazine, Chris Anderson, is out with his new and already much discussed book: “Free – the future of a radical price”. In the book he describes the radical model of freemium and how the most effective price on a product can be no price at all. Read it here.

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Against the wall: Fighting to own the news

by John Einar Sandvand on April 11, 2009 · 0 comments

Media leaders want to take steps to “protect news content online”. It is a fight against the wall. Media’s former monopoly role as gate keepers is gone long time ago. Now is the time to open up.

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5 social media trends in 2009

by John Einar Sandvand on January 20, 2009 · 7 comments

Here are some of the social media trends that are taking place in 2009. Illustration: Matt Hamm

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5 great blogs to follow online media trends

by John Einar Sandvand on December 1, 2008 · 2 comments

There are thousands of blogs out there writing about web and online media trends. Here are five of my favorites.

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The latest numbers on social networks usage

by John Einar Sandvand on November 19, 2008 · 1 comment

Finding updated numbers of social networks users can be hard.  Here are some of the sources which might help you.

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Strong growth in number of Europeans online

by John Einar Sandvand on November 15, 2008 · 0 comments

225 million Europeans were online last year, according to research from Jupiter Research. The number is estimated to increase to 275 million by 2012 – a jump of 21 per cent. If the estimate is correct, 71 per cent of Europe’s population will be online in 4 years time.

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