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Mobile Advertising Spending Change from 2009-2010

Meng Goh — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:05:43 +0000

Interesting infographic from the Microsoft Tag team. -Mobile advertising spending increase 75% to $1.5billion year over year and expected to hit $2.3billion by 2013 as market for smartphone continue to expand. - Consumer spend average of 4.3 minutes per app session compare to 1 min web session. Infographic presented by 2D barcode service ...

Mobile Advertising Spending Change from 2009-2010 is a post from: The Bento Box by Meng Goh

Facebook in Asia–Population Now Asia’s 4th Biggest Nation

Meng Goh — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:28:59 +0000

Interesting Facebook inforgraphic from Ogilvy’s Thomas Crampton. I am from Malaysia, and all my immediate family members and most of my high school friends are on Facebook. From what I can tell, most of them posted and interact daily on Facebook too. What’s amazing is this is all done without ...

Facebook in Asia–Population Now Asia’s 4th Biggest Nation is a post from: The Bento Box by Meng Goh

Google-Bing Controversy (Feb 2011) Bing Side of the Story

Meng Goh — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:10:49 +0000

Google recently accused Bing of “copying results” by running a few outlier tests. I am compiling a list of links to sort of explain the Bing side of the story. I do currently work for the Bing team in BI capacity so these are public links and my personal views. Bing ...

Google-Bing Controversy (Feb 2011) Bing Side of the Story is a post from: The Bento Box by Meng Goh

Thinking Ahead – What to Expect in Tech for 2011

Meng Goh — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:40:00 +0000

While I really enjoyed the down time during holidays season, I am also excited about the new year. Some of us are doing new year planning at work, so I thought I’ll share a couple of 2011 Technology prediction and trending links. *most of these are paid subscription. General Technology ...

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Facebook Vs. Twitter Demographics

Meng Goh — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:12:13 +0000

Digital Surgeons put together this infographic comparing Facebook users to Twitter’s. Nothing surprising here but Twitter users are a bit older and a little more educated, and update their status more frequent since it’s a micro-blogging platform. Facebook Vs. Twitter Demographics is a post from: The Bento Box by Meng Goh

Facebook Vs. Twitter Demographics is a post from: The Bento Box by Meng Goh

Microsoft Fuse Labs Social Gadgets

Meng Goh — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:59:00 +0000

Having a little fun with Microsoft Fuse Labs Social Gadgets to look at the Bing brand. 1. Read more about it. http://fuse.microsoft.com/project/socialgadgets.aspx 2. Test it at http://designer.socialgadgets.fuselabs.com/?template=A 3. Copy and Paste. Microsoft Fuse Labs Social Gadgets is a post from: The Bento Box by Meng Goh

Microsoft Fuse Labs Social Gadgets is a post from: The Bento Box by Meng Goh

Google Analytics – How Not to Track Yourself Part II

Meng Goh — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 21:24:59 +0000

In my previous post, I showed this WordPress hack to make Google Analytics not track admin in login status. Another simple but more extreme solution is to opt yourself out of all Google Analytics tracking by downloading the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. However, if you are a regular Internet Explorer ...

Google Analytics – How Not to Track Yourself Part II is a post from: The Bento Box by Meng Goh

Zoom.it Power by Seadragon from Microsoft Live Lab

Meng Goh — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 04:15:28 +0000

Zoom.it is an innovative technology develope by Microsoft Live Lab to help bloggers and content publisher share high resolution images and web sites. It’ll convert your website or image into Deep Zoom format, and use SilverLight component for fluid zooming. Microsoft acquired Seadragon for it’s zooming technology in 2006 and had since use it to power ...

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Tour de France 2010 Tweet Map with Bing

Meng Goh — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:02:20 +0000

Here’s a pretty cool Tour de France Bing Tweet Map. You can go around the world to see the Tweets. It shows you the power of map visualization and how information (tweets) are presented in real time, across the world. Go to Bing Twitter Map and click on Embed On Your ...

Tour de France 2010 Tweet Map with Bing is a post from: The Bento Box by Meng Goh

How to Improve Your Twitalyzer Impact and Klout Score

Meng Goh — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:30:41 +0000

I gave a quick overview of Twitalyzer and Klout (both are great Twitter measurement tool) last time, I would like to focus on a few practical advices that I’ve learned since. 1. Enjoy reading news on Twitter, engage others for insightful discussion or regular conversation and be happy. Don’t worry too ...

How to Improve Your Twitalyzer Impact and Klout Score is a post from: The Bento Box by Meng Goh