Motorola Doing Its Best To Take Google Search Out Of Android Phones In China (MOT, GOOG, MSFT)

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Motorola has struck a deal with Microsoft to add Bing search and map widgets to Android powered phones.

According to a release, it starts with phones in China, but it's a "global alliance," so Google could be getting pushed aside on its own software everywhere. (We've emailed Motorola to get some clarity.)

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comScore Videometrix: 50 procent meer YouTube filmpjes

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Met online tuesday van afgelopen dinsdag nog vers in het geheugen: uit de comScore video metrix (gemeten januari 2010) blijkt dat in de VS 173 miljoen internetgebruikers online video hebben bekeken. YouTube, de grote marktleider, mocht een plus in het aantal bekeken filmpjes per gebruiker noteren van 50 procent: gemiddeld werden 93 filmpjes per gebruiker per maand bekeken. In totaal werden 32,4 miljard filmpjes bekeken in januari. YouTube (99 procent) staat bovenaan, daarna volgt Hulu met 2,8 procent: Lees meer over: comScore Videometrix: 50 procent meer YouTube filmpjes.

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YouTube Launches Mobile Ads in Japan and USA

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YouTube Launches Mobile Ads in Japan and USA YouTube Mobile is growing rapidly. With a 160% increase in mobile traffic through 2009, Google have been looking at ways to increase advertising revenue through this channel.

After some initial advertising trials with brands including KIA and the launch of District 9 DVD, today sees the launch of mobile ad sales in the US and Japan.

Taking a leaf from the main YouTube platform the principle form of advertising will be banner ads, like the example on the right. The benefit of banner advertising is the cross marketing from the main channel.

So, if Mazda run a banner campaign on the main YouTube channel, it is an easy and logical extension to roll it out on the mobile platform. Again, like the main site, advertising will be sold in daily chunks, rather than per thousand impressions.

This roll out will no doubt include the technology Google picked up with the late 2009 acquisition of AdMob. With Gartner predicting mobile advertising to be worth $1.56 bn by 2013, it is high time Google got in on the act.

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The Truth About the Average Twitter User [STATS]

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A new study from security firm Barracuda Labs provides some interesting insights into the state of the Twitterverse. Unfortunately for the microblogging startup, the stats say that most of its users aren’t very active.

The study looked at around 19 million Twitter accounts (PDF) in order to figure out how people are using Twitter. It started with one assumption: an active or “True” Twitter user has at least 10 followers, follows at least 10 people, and had tweeted at least 10 times. By that definition though, only 21% of Twitter users are active users.

There’s a great deal of interesting data in the breakdown. Only 26% of Twitter users had 10 followers or more by December 2009, while only 40% were following 10 people or more (in fact, a majority of Twitter users, 51%, were following less than five people).

In terms of tweets, the report estimates that 34% of Twitter users hadn’t tweeted even once, while a whopping 73% of Twitter’s users tweeted less than 10 times. That means nearly all of the tweets on the social network were coming from about 1/4 of the userbase. Power users dominate.

Barracuda Labs also analyzed Twitter’s growth over time, and the numbers are consistent with previous reports that show while Twitter grew like wildfire in early 2009, it has dramatically slowed down in recent months. Going back further to early 2008, the report estimates that the microblogging tool grew by just 0.31%. However, with the quick rise of media coverage and the influx of celebrities such as Oprah and Shaq, Twitter use grew by 20% in April 2009 before dropping off to 0.34% growth in December 2009.

While the news isn’t stellar, it isn’t all bad for Twitter — these metrics are moving in the right direction. A full 79% of users had less than ten tweets in June 2009, but that number dropped to 73% by December. 80% of users had less than 10 followers in June 2009, but that percentage dropped to 74% by December. If that trend continues, you’ll hopefully see a more diverse and active Twitterverse going forward.

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Twitter Turns on “Tweet Your Location”, Mapping Tweets on Twitter.com.

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Twitter Turns on Tweet Your Location, Mapping Tweets on Twitter.com.Twitter is in the process of enabling geolocated tweets on Twitter.com.

If you have the feature enabled you should notice a “Tweet with your Location” option that uses the Google Maps API to map the tweets. The option gives Twitter users the option of tweeting their location on Twitter.com and then allowing others to view the precise location on Google Maps.

Spotted initially yesterday, Twitter seemed to pull the feature before anyone had a chance to use it, today appears to be the day of its full roll out across the site. Developers have had access to the feature for some time via the Twitter API for their own Twitter clients, but this is the first location feature we’ve seen Twitter enable on its own website.

If you have the feature enabled you should see a pin underneath the tweet itself here but you’ll also be able to see them in the stream view, for example here.

With SXSW just around the corner and the hoopla over the various Location services, the timing of this is crucial.  Gowalla, Foursquare, Buzz, lets the games begin.

More to come.

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Android Market Share Exploding: Up 4.3% Since October

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Android Market Share Exploding: Up 4.3% Since OctoberYou knew that the Droid was selling well, you have been seeing them in your daily life for months now, but do you know how well Android was doing as a whole?

It’s always hard to get a good pulse on things from your one-man view. Thankfully, we have the data: Android shot from 2.8% of the smartphone market in October, to 7.1% in January.

Of course, that market share had to come from somewhere, and it came predominately from Palm and Microsoft. Palm lost over 2% of the smartphone market share, and Microsoft lost a massive 4.0% in the quarter past.

Of course, everyone is pointing to this as the reason for the recent Apple-HTC lawsuits, and while that might be a problem for HTC in the future, for the moment Android has the momentum in the market. What happened to Apple in the same quarter? It gained a mere 0.3%. That hardly counts as a move at all. Here is all the data:

Android Market Share Exploding: Up 4.3% Since October

Whatever the legal outcome, the smartphone manufacturers that picked Android as their next major technology investment seem to have selected the winning horse. Of course, Google is having some problems selling their Nexus One, but that is hardly as consumer facing a device as the Droid. Android as a whole is healthy as a peach.

Finally, whenever Microsoft launches Windows Phone 7 Series it will regain its status as a meaningful player in the market. Until then, expect them to lose more market share. As always in the mobile wars, we consumers win.

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Google Reader Play Transforms Feeds into Entertainment Experience

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Google has just released an alternative player for Google Reader that gives those with a penchant for browsing news the ability to do so in an image-heavy, TV-like fashion.

Dubbed Google Reader Play, the new tool is an experimental Google Labs project that presents stories one by one — based on their Recommend Items technology — using enlarged photos and auto-playing videos (in lieu of text) on a black backdrop. Viewers can redefine categories and star, like or share stories, with those behaviors further contributing to what Google displays.

Google Reader Play could be both an entertainment utility for browsing the web and a complement to your Google Reader experience. Actions that you take in Reader or Reader Play are shared between the two products, and the recommendations in Reader Play are personalized based on the people you’re following in Reader.

Google Reader Play is certainly eye-catching, but it’s more pop than it is substance. In fact, given that Google Reader appeals to fairly narrow audience today, we believe the product was intended to up the entertainment factor and introduce Reader-esque features to a much broader set of users.

It’s nice to look at and worth a try; whether or not that’s enough to attract the attention of those outside the web/tech realm remains to be seen. We do, however, think that Google Reader Play on an iPad or actual TV set, say via something like Boxee Box, would be worth watching.


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HP Slate heeft wel Flash

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Nieuwe filmpjes tonen de HP Slate-tablet in actie. Anders dan Apple's iPad draait de Slate wel Flash en ook Adobe Air-apps.

Adobe heeft bewegende beelden van de nieuwe HP Slate-tablet naar buiten gebracht. Het apparaat heeft Flash-spelletjes en Adobe Air-apps. Flash wordt volgens Engadget extra ondersteund in de hardware van de Slate. Apple's iPad ontbeert Flash, want Steve Jobs heeft er een hekel aan. HP en Adobe delen in de nieuwe filmpjes een sneer uit naar Apple door te stellen dat 85 procent van de top 100 sites ter wereld Flash gebruikt. En ja, die wil je natuurlijk ook op je nieuwe tablet zien.

Ook is in de Slate-filmpjes het virtuele toetsenbord te zien, nogal gelijkend op dat in Windows 7. Typen op andere Windows 7-tablets, zoals Hanvons Touchpad, was nog geen genoegen. De HP Slate werd begin januari door Microsoft-baas Steve Ballmer voor het eerst geshowd op de CES. Wanneer de tablet verschijnt en hoeveel hij gaat kosten is nog steeds niet bekend.

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