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Among the findings: Overall, 29% of video service customers watch paid video content via handheld device. Some 18% of customers use tablets for viewing paid video content, making them the most-often-used handheld device, up from 11% in 2011. The use of wireless phone customers has increased to 16% in 2012, up from 14% a year earlier. Viewing of paid content via desktop and laptop (PC/Mac) has declined to 39%, down from 48% in 2011.

"How much time do you spend on Reddit?  If you're anything like the average Redditor, it's quite a bit!  Yesterday Reddit reported, via Twitter, that in August the average time spent per visit was 17:29 minutes.  The month also closed with a shipping 3.4 billion page views and 42.9 million uniques.  Impressive, eh? While the 17:29 minute figure is only a one second increase from 17:28 in July, the page views and uniques saw a significant jump.  In July Reddit reported 3.1 billion page views and 39.5 million users."

there is apparently a service dubbed Stalkbook developed by MIT graduate, Oliver Yeh, that lets you view that person's profile, photos, contact info, etc. simply by letting you view that profile under the guise of another Facebook user.

"Facebook video viewership is growing by leaps and bounds. It now sees 8 billion average daily video views from 500 million users. That's up from just 4 billion video views per day in April. "

"Vimeo took a first step towards pay-per-view Tuesday with the roll-out of a limited slate of six paid-streaming titles. The movies, which include We Are Legion: The Story of Hacktivists as well as the LCD Soundsystem concert movie Shut Up and Play the Hits are meant to preview different features that will be available to all content producers once Vimeo rolls out pay-per-view in earnest early next year."

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"Google's "Smartphone Launch Predictor" study found that 52 percent of purchase-related searches occur before a smartphone is launched. According to Google, the key to a successful smartphone launch is getting ahead of the release and marketing early. "One of the biggest factors is getting early buzz. Getting early buzz is key [for a successful smartphone launch]," Google Industry Director for Tech Kyle Keogh told ClickZ. The study found that the earlier a firm markets a smartphone the more likely they are to succeed in sales. According to Google, an extra 1,000 news stories put in place weeks before a launch can lead to a 9 percent spike in smartphone sales. Google's research discovered that users tend to do general product searches in the week during launch. After launch, it was discovered that consumers dig deep and search for key specifications on a device. Video is also becoming a key research tool for consumers shopping for a smartphone. According to the study, video views for smartphones increased 60 percent this year. Google says that if a smartphone gets over 1 million video views during launch week it will likely sell over 1.3 million units."

"The brand identified company-created and fan-created accounts. The results of that first audit: 232 Facebook pages, along with roughly 100 YouTube channels and 30 Twitter accounts. A case was made for why individual markets would gain fans and views if they eliminated local accounts in favor of global Reebok accounts. Some markets were hesitant. To get them onboard, Mr. Bahl allowed test posts on the global Facebook page and illustrated how related-video recommendations can juice views on YouTube. Markets such as Hong Kong quickly realized their customers were already gravitating toward global accounts. Some local accounts, like India's Facebook page, with nearly 1.8 million fans, remain in place. Reebok whittled its overall social presence by roughly half in that first audit as it rolled up the majority of company-created accounts to focus on three Facebook pages, two Twitter accounts and one YouTube channel. It left fan-created content untouched. The brand also established a broader communications strategy, defining who could use trademarks to create accounts and for what purpose. A second audit is now taking place, with the goal of further streamlining Reebok's social-media presence by the end of the year -- just in time for 2013 product launches."

"Koozoo is a platform that crowd-sources live video from public places to create a continuously broadcasting network. Members of the community can post and watch user-generated video feeds from places ranging from cafes to world landmarks. Whether you want to assess the wait time for coffee or see a real-time view of the beach, Koozoo's goal is to make "live views of the world's public spaces easily accessible to one and all." "Koozoo will usher in a new era that reads like science fiction today," said Trevor Darrell, professor at UC Berkeley in a statement. "For example, within a few years I expect Koozoo to let you take a virtual walk down the street in Tokyo or Paris in 3D, live, as you sit comfortably at home in California.""

""The survey showed tablet owners 55 and older who watch TV and movies weekly on tablets jumped from 11% last year to 19% in 2012, while owners in the 45-54 range also saw large percentage gains (15% to 24%)," the company explained in their announcement. "While it may not make parents seem any cooler, older consumers more and more are adopting their kids' viewing habits," said Altman Vilandrie & Company Director Jonathan Hurd."

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belgium -- tag a street that doesn't have google street view because the road is too small -- and toyota will send out their iQ to map the road

Facebook could get a little more nostalgic. The social network is currently testing a feature that will let users take a trip through the past, viewing the highlights of what they and their friends were up to exactly one year prior to the current date. The history feature - currently called "On This Day" - has begun appearing as a viewing option in select users' News Feeds.

comScore (Nasdaq: SCOR) reported some 172 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in December, almost identical to November viewing, for an average of 14.6 hours per viewer, down slight from November's 14.7 hours. Google Sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube.com, ranked as the top online video content property in December-as it has perennially, with 144.8 million unique viewers, which was down slightly from November's 145.8 million.  Yahoo! Sites, meanwhile, followed with with 53.1 million viewers, a big drop from the 61.8 million viewers it had in November.

Flingo makes software for TVs that can easily deliver content related to the currently viewed showto mobile phones or laptops. Makes it possible to incorporate TV viewing history into viewer's browsing history as well.

"After snapping images with both a front view and side view, the app uses artificial intelligence to create a 3D digital model of the user's body in under 10 seconds. Next to this image, over 50 size measurements are displayed, including everything from knee girth to shoulder slope."

"Richard Ferrers, Research Data Specialist (2011-present) Answered Jul 14, 2015 Source: IBM (What is big data?) At a recent Data Science meetup, a second statistic that puts the  90% figure in context. The 90% figure has been true over the last 30 years. Every two years we generate 10 times as much data.  ie 1985 = 1, 2015 = 1 * 10 ^ (30/2) i.e. 2015 has 10^15 more data than 1985. 13.9k views · View 9 Upvoters"

Flimmer's preliminary homepage includes the tagline "Earn Per View", and local media reports have quoted the company as saying it is "the first film portal where the user is rewarded for paying attention to the trailer". It all sounds a bit confusing, and Flimmer's press spokesman wasn't available for comment, so we'll just have to wildly guess that it's some kind of breakthrough in the evolution of the content industry. Or not.