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Orkut: Not as Popular as Myspace or Facebook, but Still Worth Your Time

Published on January 21, 2009 in Networking, from HTI, social marketing and social media. 3 Comments Tags: 2008 Orkut projections, applications, Brazilian Members, Business Networking, consumer base, facebook, Gmail, Gmail Video Chat, google, Google Talk, google.com, graph, Indian, myspace, Networking, Orkut, Orkut Büyükkökten, Orkut Forums, Orkut stats and demographhics, Orkut.com, poll, Popularity of Social Networking Sites, RSS Feeds, small businesses, Social Network Marketing, social networking, Social Networking Community, USA, user base, video, word-of-mouth.

Orkut: Not as Popular as Myspace or Facebook, but Still Worth Your Time

The name “Orkut” sounds like some kind of mysterious JK Rowling creature…but when you get down to it, so does “Google.” Orkut.com happens to be Google’s original Social Networking site named after its creator, and employee of Google – Orkut Büyükkökten. The three top countries that use Orkut are Brazil, India and the United States, with Brazilian members making up more than half of the user base.

Competing with the big heavy sites like MySpace and Facebook has limited Orkut’s impact within the US market, but Google has continued to add exciting new features to stimulate user satisfaction, activity and new applications. Throughout 2008, some new features that have been added range from chatting (via Google Talk), to mobile, to enabling private forums.

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Blognet Award

Published on January 15, 2009 in Uncategorized and from HTI. 1 Comment Tags: achievement, agency, Award, b2b, Blog awards, blogging, blognet, business to business, campaign, community, competition, copywriter, first place, January, monthly contest, newsletter, nominate, online website, readers, SEO marketing, small company, successful business, viewers, visible shops, vote for award, winner, writer.

HiringTheInternet has been nominated for an acclaimed BlogNet Award for January!

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Internet Users Choose Games Over Gourmet

Published on January 1, 2009 in Uncategorized and from HTI. 1 Comment Tags: consumers cutting back, emarketer, how to, in-game advertising, internet users plan to cut back on consumer spending, NPD, npd group, pew internet and american life project, survey, video, video game sponsors, video game usage among adults.

While consumers continue to cut back on spending during this economic downturn, there’s one area where we’re not so willing to concede: video games.

According to eMarketer, U.S. Internet users will reduce the amount of money spent on dining out by 57% while only 35% of respondents to the survey – which was conducted by NPD Group – said they’d give up game time.

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