Oct 14

YouTube: 8 Million Streams for Record-Breaking Freefall (Video)

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At peak, the video-streaming network had over 8 million concurrent livestreams of the Red Bull channel, where the jump was being carried. To put this number in perspective, the amount of viewers this morning was roughly equal to the entire population of New York City. Continue reading

Aug 26

The Internet of 2002 vs the Internet of 2012 (Infographic)

Then and Now comparisons are always fun content for infographics. Here is one by Best Education Sites that shows us just how far the Internet has come over the past ten years. Continue reading

Jul 29

Infographic Shows How Many Times the Olympic Opening Ceremony was Mentioned on Social Media

Social TV analytics company, Bluefin Labs, has crunched the numbers from Friday night’s Olympic opening ceremony and has come up with this infographic that shows how many times the event was mentioned on social media. Continue reading

Jul 01

Reading Rainbow Comes to the iPad

I’ll bet Reading Rainbow played a role in the lives of just about every reader of this post. The show was on the air for 23 years, bridging generations and making reading fun and interesting to so many children.

Now former Reading Rainbow host, LeVar Burton, has brought the Emmy Award winning show to the iPad in the form of a super-cool children’s eReader app. Continue reading

Jun 30

Now StumbleUpon and LinkedIn are Down. What an Eventful Social Media Day!

We all know now that the Instagram/Pinterest/Netflix outage last night and this morning was cuased by a power outage at an Amazon Web Services facility in Virginia. Now it seems that LinkedIn and StumbleUpon are down and have been for a bit of time. Continue reading

Jun 24

10 Can’t-Miss Digital Marketing Articles From The Past Week

It’s Summertime, so I will cut you a little slack if you haven’t been glued to your computer reading Digital Ramblings lately.

Fear not. Here is a quick rundown of last week’s best posts so you can get caught up… Continue reading

Jun 22

GetGlue Unveils 2012 Summer Olympic Stickers

SocialTV app GetGlue used their blog this evening to launch a new set of stickers that reward users for checking-in to the U.S. Olympic Team Trials, which are now underway.

Here is a schedule of when and on what NBC Sports television property you can see the trials on.

In the same post, GetGlue also gave us a sneak peek of their 2012 Summer Olympics sticker set. Here are the two sets of stickers that will be available soon. Enjoy! Continue reading