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July 20, 2011
 

Found: Twitter's new tweets-per-second record is now 7,196

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In terms of past events:

  • Super Bowl 2011 saw 4,064 TPS
  • New Years Eve 2010 in Japan, which hit 6,939 TPS at its peak.
  • Japanese earthquake and Tsunami in March, Twitter usage reached 5,530 TPS.
  • Royal Wedding in England in April, Twitter reached a peak of 3,966 TPS.
ESPNResearch Reports (@ESPNResearch):
13.46 million viewers/minute for ESPN's USA-Japan WWC Final is 2nd most-viewed daytime telecast in cable TV history (Mo-Su/6a-6p)

  
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Posted by Mark Cracknell 
November 16, 2010
 

News: YouTube: 35 hours of video uploaded every minute

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Via Cnet
Just in case you had any doubts that YouTube was still growing, the folks over at Google have unleashed some stats to prove it.

According to a company blog post yesterday, YouTube users upload about 35 hours of video to the site every minute. That means that about 50,400 hours are added every day. In comparison, that figures was 24 hours of video every minute back in March.

Read more via Cnet

  
Filed under  //   google   news  
Posted by Mark Cracknell 
October 13, 2010
 

News: Are iOS apps more popular than 'American Idol'? (we wish)

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Not one for loving mainstream TV, here's only hoping that this research is true:

"Games running on Apple's iOS are starting to match prime-time television shows in overall consumption, a new study from Flurry Analytics claims.

According to the research company, 19 million people currently spend an average of 22 minutes each day playing iOS games, or accessing social networks on their iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. That total number of users easily eclipses viewership of Sunday Night Football games, "Undercover Boss," and other top shows. It's also just 4 million viewers shy of top show "American Idol.""

Read the full article on Cnet or Flurry

  
Filed under  //   culture   iPhone development   iphone application design   news   sydney  
Posted by Mark Cracknell 
September 24, 2010
 

News: TAB Sportsbet iPhone App hits number 1

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With the Footy Finals in full swing the TAB Sportsbet iPhone Application hits number one for Free Sports downloads in the Australian App Store.

Binary is proud to be a partner on this project, who together with AppCast were commissioned by the TAB.

  
Filed under  //   australia   design   iphone app design   iphone development   news   sports   sydney   wagering  
Posted by Mark Cracknell 
June 11, 2010
 

News: Australian World Cup Betting May Top A$300 Million

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Aussie, Aussie, Aussie

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Australian bets on the soccer World Cup may reach a record A$300 million ($254 million), exceeding the annual take for the nation’s domestic football codes, according to bookmakers including Tabcorp Holdings Ltd.

The forecast for the tournament, which starts today, compares with turnover of about A$200 million four years ago, said Craig Nugent, managing director of sports betting at Melbourne-based Tabcorp, Australia’s biggest gambling company.

While betting, attendance and television viewership of domestic professional soccer lags behind Australian rules football and rugby league, the World Cup may overtake their takings this year as the competition draws those who don’t normally gamble, Nugent said.

Australia will play its first game of the tournament on June 13 local time against Germany. Other members of its group are Ghana and Serbia.

Should the Australian team, known as the Socceroos, make it to the second round and meet England, Nugent is expecting the match to be the most gambled on game in the country’s sports betting history.

“If Australia goes through their group and England win theirs, we would expect it would break all records,” he said.

Tabcorp today started an application for Apple Inc. iPhones to place bets.

Via businessweek.com

 
Filed under  //   australian   iphone application design   iphone development   news  
Posted by Mark Cracknell 
May 22, 2010
 

News: YouTube now puts out 2 billion videos per day

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Don't know what's worse, Gaga's "Bad Romance" as most popular video or YT still not turning a profit.
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Less than a month after turning five, YouTube says it is now streaming two billion videos per day. It has launched a “Five Year Channel” with some of its greatest hits. Via Mashable, some other notable YouTube details:
  • 24 hours of video are posted every minute
  • The most popular video on YT is Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance”
  • More video is uploaded to YT in 60 days than the traditional TV networks created in 60 years
  • It is now monetizing (mostly through Google Ads) more than one billion video views per week
  • Hundreds of millions of videos are watched every month on YouTube

  
Filed under  //   news   social media  
Posted by Mark Cracknell 
May 19, 2010
 

News: Apple patents “iTravel”, a mobile booking and ticketless check-in App for iPhone

Apple has filed a patent for a travel app called iTravel that books flights, hotels and car reservations, as well as providing ticketless check-in using Near Field Communications (NFC), a short-range wireless technology.

Apple has already indicated its interest in the ticketing space by filing a patent for "Concert Ticket +", an event ticketing system linked to iTunes. But this is the first indication that the company is actively looking to target the travel vertical.

Via New Media Trend Watch

  
Filed under  //   iphone development   news  
Posted by Mark Cracknell 
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