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.

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 cooperation [...]

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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. What people are looking for:imagine a world without facebook | imagine de video en facebook | imagine the world without social media | life without facebook statistics | life without [...]

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Download Facebook White Paper “Best Practice Guide: Marketing on Facebook”

Facebook published a new white paper which describes best practices for reaching your businesses objectives on Facebook. The 14 pages long pdf-file contains among others: • A short illustration of the Facebook ecosystem and the approach with marketing projects • Five guiding principles that help you to market your business It also give insights for the [...]

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Facebook Statistics South Africa – 4 million Users in April 2011

As at April 4, 2011 there were 3.904.420 active Facebook users in South Africa. We are pretty sure that South Africa will hit the 4 million user mark this month. What people are looking for:facebook statistics south africa | Facebook users by age | facebook south africa | South African Woman facebook | statistics of facebook south africa 2012 | facebook statistics | south africa facebook users | facebook [...]

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Google launches +1 and counters Facebook Like Button with own Recommendation Tool

Google just launched its own recommendation tool and gets social. The tool with the name ‘+1‘ is the answer to Facebook’s very popular Like button. People can use +1 to rate search results in Google’s SERPs and to value useful and relevant websites or adwords ads, provided that they have a Google account.

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