In contrast, during the World Cup in 2006, only 48-million unique users visited Fifa.com over the four weeks of the tournament's duration. The single day record was set on June 22 when Italy played the Czech Republic and generated 250-million unique views.
In 2006, social networking was just hitting the big time: MySpace was still big, and Facebook had opened its doors to anyone in the world. YouTube was also rising in popularity. Bluetooth and 3G internet were slowly beginning to be incorporated into lower-end phones. The Motorola RAZR was the most popular phone of the year.
seven million visits per minute -- during the 2006 Soccer World Cup in Germany when the United States lost to Ghana
Armed police were called to St Aelred's Catholic Technology College in Newton-le-Willows on Friday after reports someone had made threats to kill there.
The United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation raised the alarm after picking up a threat posted on social networking site Facebook.
The new Kindle for iPad/iPhone (not the actual Kindle unit) will now feature books with embedded audio and video content to enhance the reading experience. The new features are already in a few books, but the new functionality could create a more robust reading/multimedia experience of what has traditionally been a relatively lean form of content delivery.
SoBi uses a gizmo that fastens to the back of any bike and functions as a lock, a GPS unit, and a bike computer. With a SoBi account, you can use a mobile app (of course) to find an available bike nearby. When you're done, you just lock it to an existing bike rack where someone else can pick it up.
Why don't we put ads on these devices? You could prob serve up a whole heap of home improvement, home supplies, etc., from such a device because they could be top of mind during interaction with a home automation unit.
A recent study published by AVG, an Internet security company, found that 92 percent of American children have an online presence by the time they are 2. One third of mothers in the United States said that they had posted pictures of their newborns online, and 34 percent of American mothers had posted sonograms of their babies in the womb. According to the AVG study, American mothers are more likely to post pictures of their children online than mothers in any other country.
Yesterday the IAB unveiled the winners of its Rising Stars competition, an initiative launched to spur greater creativity in interactive advertising by introducing a series of new brand-friendly ad formats.
Coca-Cola, via Wieden+Kennedy, Amsterdam - Aussie expat Eric Quennoy is co-ECD - is set to rock the world's youth in 2011 with "Coca-Cola Music", an innovative new music program that will give young fans the inside track on the creation of music and the opportunity to view the industry's leading artists at work.