Move over Google…Yandex is the top internet search engine in Russia
So you think that Google is the world’s favourite internet search engine? Not in every country so I’ve learned!
In Russia, Yandex is the leading search engine, with 55% of the market compared to Google’s 21%. Check out what Wikipedia has to say about Yandex.
According to an article in today’s Sunday Times, Yandex – set up by mathematician Arkady Volozh eight years ago, is now worth an estimated £2.5 billion and is the world’s second most popular non-English search engine after China’s Baidu.
Yandex is also planning to open an office in Silicon Valley, headed by one of Yahoo’s former senior vice presidents and this autumn will very likely be floated on the Nasdaq exchange – making it the largest IPO yet in Russian technology.
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Hitting The Big Time Podcasts
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Having a website that’s really engaging is now a vital business tool – whether you need it for e-commerce or simply to communicate with clients, customers or employees. Check out the amazing array of options to bring your website to life here – and remember, we take care of the technical stuff, so you don’t have to!
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Andrea Stamp – Forbes Solicitors
Andrea Stamp, Head of the Practice Development Department at Forbes Solicitors tells us why she chose Ten Horizon.
Click the player below to listen to Andrea’s testimonial:
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Social Media Communicators – We Bring Your Messages To Life
Here’s just one example of how we help clients use Social Media to get their messages across in a compelling way. We produced this short video podcast for Local Government Employers that successfully tells their story in an engaging way. Whatever message you want to convey, we’ll handle the entire process for you from concept to completion – and at an extremely competitive price.
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The Fastest Growing US Companies are using Podcasting and Social Media to drive their business
The growth of interest we’re seeing by organisations, in podcasting and social media has been mirrored in a new research study carried out in America, by The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research.
The new study compares corporate adoption of social media between 2007 and 2008 by the Inc. 500 – a list of the fastest growing private US companies – the study highlights that podcasting and social media are important technologies at these companies.
The research shows that:
- Four out of five companies in the Inc 500 rate social media technology as important or very important
- 21% of the companies are podcasting and 39% blogging
- The number of companies blogging and podcasting has doubled in the last year
It also suggests that companies that are using social media & new media technologies, are growing faster than other companies.
Here’s a breakdown of the social media technologies the Inc 500 are using:
Check out the research for yourself at the University of Massachusetts, it’s makes interesting reading.
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The origins of YouTube?
The following is a video of US based Professor Michael Wesch’s presentation on the ‘Anthropology of YouTube’ at the Library of Congress, on 23rd June 2008. A really interesting presentation…well worth a watch!
To find out more about Professor Wesch, visit his Kansas State University site on Digital Ethnography.
The following is a timeline of the presentation:
0:00 Introduction, YouTube’s Big Numbers
2:00 Numa Numa and the Celebration of Webcams
5:53 The Machine is Us/ing Us and the New Mediascape
12:16 Introducing our Research Team
12:56 Who is on YouTube?
13:25 What’s on Youtube? Charlie Bit My Finger, Soulja Boy, etc.
17:04 5% of vids are personal vlogs addressed to the YouTube community, Why?
17:30 YouTube in context. The loss of community and “networked individualism” (Wellman)
18:41 Cultural Inversion: individualism and community
19:15 Understanding new forms of community through Participant Observation
21:18 YouTube as a medium for community
23:00 Our first vlogs
25:00 The webcam: Everybody is watching where nobody is (”context collapse”)
26:05 Re-cognition and new forms of self-awareness (McLuhan)
27:58 The Anonymity of Watching YouTube: Haters and Lovers
29:53 Aesthetic Arrest
30:25 Connection without Constraint
32:35 Free Hugs: A hero for our mediated culture
34:02 YouTube Drama: Striving for popularity
34:55 An early star: emokid21ohio
36:55 YouTube’s Anthenticity Crisis: the story of LonelyGirl15
39:50 Reflections on Authenticity
41:54 Gaming the system / Exposing the System
43:37 Seriously Playful Participatory Media Culture (featuring Us by blimvisible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yxHKg…
47:32 Networked Production: The Collab. MadV’s “The Message” and the message of YouTube
49:29 Poem: The Little Glass Dot, The Eyes of the World
51:15 Conclusion by bnessel1973
52:50 Dedication and Credits (Our Numa Numa dance)
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