What’s happened this week:
- StumbleUpon Hits 1 Billion Stumbles Per Month – an increase of 200 million stumbles on last month.
- Facebook bans Ad.ly’s celebrity endorsement business which has grown so quickly on Twitter.
- Meanwhile Twitter is considering Facebook style brand pages. Bloggers are already listing things they’d love to see included.
- YouTube is starting to let users broadcast live.
What we have learned:
- 86% of mobile users are watching TV while using a mobile phone and 91% of all mobile internet use is “social” related.
- We wait for over a year for Firefox 4, which only came out a few weeks ago, now we learn that Firefox 5 is coming as early as June!
- US terrorist attack warnings to be made on Twitter and Facebook.
Cool stuff
- YouTube are clearly taking inspiration from the UK's Nissan Juke campaign which climaxed with the UK’s first ever live gig streamed on Spotify.
- The mobile operator 3 have copied the best bit about the film Minority Report by launching“3LiveShop” – a unique “in-store” experience with a salesperson… but via your webcam.
- The most elaborate mobile phone advert ever! – Apparently no artificial sound effects were used.
- And the UK’s John Lewis campaign won the Flashtalking campaign of the month award.
Where to find more:
- What will the smartphone market look like in 2015?
- How Augmented Reality can improve your life
- Sam (thanks to Mark, JP and and the Futures team)
