33 posts and columns on visitors
Not That Many People Play Facebook Games After All
As it turns out, far fewer people play Facebook games than originally thought. Here’s why that’s good news for developers.News Byte
NileGuide Acquires Decade-Old 10Best for Travel Content
San Francisco-based NileGuide wants to be the alternative to scuzzy keyword-stuffed travel information from content farms. The company, which pays local editors to maintain free, user-generated content, has acquired 10Best.com, a profitable edited travel recommendations site from EnVeritas that’s been around since 2000, to help boost NileGuide’s traffic to three million visitors per month. Terms were not disclosed, but NileGuide said it will keep a portion of 10Best’s staff in Greenville, S.C.Upwardly Mobile Email Usage
A self-evident, but nonetheless noteworthy, data point with which to begin the day: More of us than ever are checking our email via mobile devices, and we’re doing it more frequently–to the detriment of Web mail usage.Voices
Delicious Red Sea Parted, Users Wander to Other Bookmarking Services
We might have assumed that users would flee Delicious after Yahoo announced it was shuttering the popular bookmarking service. What we didn’t know was how fast the lifeboats were filling. Until now.Web Commerce Isn't Really Social…Yet
Social and e-commerce seem like they could be an explosive combination, but current darlings Groupon and Gilt Groupe are only scratching the surface.News Byte
Another Love Note From Facebook to Media Sites: A New Sign-Up Tool
More outreach from Facebook to media companies: A new registration tool, which is supposed to make it even easier for Web site visitors to sign on to the site using their Facebook account. Facebook says that once it’s installed, the tool will “surface[s] activity from friends and incentivizes the person to stay on the site longer, share more content, and come back more often.” And of course, share more information with Facebook.Voices