Author Archives: Klaus

A German living in Cape Town. I love the sea, the mountains, surfing (on- and offline in the sea), reading, movies and work in an online marketing agency in the city center of Cape Town.

First Google Plus Pages are online

Finally, the first Google Plus Business Pages are online. Google published the following video earlier today:

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Google Plus for Business: Pages to launch later this year

At the moment Google Plus is only available for private persons. As more and more business owners create private Google+ accounts for their brand, Google now asks them to wait until business pages will be officially launched.
In this context Google Product Manager Christian Oestlien approached business owners and asked them not yet to create [...]

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750 Million Facebook Users worldwide, 4.1 million in South Africa

3 month ago we announced that Facebook will soon hit the 4 million user mark in South Africa. At that moment Facebook had 3.904.420 active South African users. But it took longer than expected as you can see in the chart below.
In May 2011, Facebook “only” counted 3.797.180 users in South Africa. But this [...]

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The Life of a Facebook Photo | Infographic

Pixable, an US based startup that offers sleek social photo creation and categorization tools for Facebook, recently created an infographic which shows what happens when people upload photos to Facebook. Pixable states that more than six billion photos are uploaded to Facebook every month and that this number will further increase.
The infographic describes the [...]

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How the Beauty Industry leverages Social Media

Social media becomes more and more important. Most big beauty brands already have jumped on the bandwagon and have leveraged social media to engage with customers and prospects and build worthwhile relationships. But how do they integrate their social media strategy into their marketing mix?
First of all you need to ask yourself what your overall [...]

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The Social Media Revolution – 2011 Version

Erik Qualman has uploaded a new and updated version of his famous Social Media Revolution Videos. Check it out:

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Twitter announces own photo sharing service

Once again Twitter offends the sensibilities of developers of third-party applications such as Twitpic, yFrog and others with the announcement to launch its own built in image sharing service.
“We need to remove the friction from adding photos to Twitter,” Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said.
Costolo also announced that users of the new service “will own their [...]

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Facebook User Numbers by South African Cities – May 2011

We already analysed South Africa’s most popular cities by looking at the number of fans on different city fan pages. Today we want to look into the official Facebook user numbers by South African cities.
It turns out that Johannesburg has the largest number of active Facebook users with more than 816.000 users logging in [...]

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Youtube launches movie rental service

Youtube owner Google now offers a video-on-demand service as an option to Apple’s iTunes, Netflix and Hulu. The service is available in the USA initially but will be expanded to other countries as the service evolves.
Youtube added 3,000 classic movies as well as latest blockbusters to the movie-rental section which are presented in [...]

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Imagine a World without Facebook – Video

I just found a new video which shows some interesting Facebook stats and raises the question how the world would be different without Facebook. Thanks to Kelly Lazy for this amazing motion-infographic video.

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