a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

More than half of Facebook’s referral traffic now comes from mobile

Feb14
by on February 14, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Mobile, Social Media

144134368 520x245 More than half of Facebooks referral traffic now comes from mobile

Social discovery and sharing platform Shareaholic today released its latest report for Facebook referral traffic data. More than half of social traffic from Facebook now consists of mobile referrals.

Facebook Mobile Referrals Report February 2014 data More than half of Facebooks referral traffic now comes from mobile

Above you can see the last few months of growth as noted by Shareaholic, which tracks 250 million users visiting its network of 200,000 publishers. In January, Facebook’s share of visits was 16.21 percent while Facebook mobile was 8.25 percent, or just over half (50.89 percent) of Facebook referrals.

When students were going back to school, mobile accounted for over a quarter. Now it’s double that. Of course, it’s quite possible that the latest data is a peak and that in the next few months mobile referrals will fall back down as a share of overall referrals. Still, it’s quite clear Facebook’s mobile referral share has been steadily rising for some time now.

Facebook Mobile Referrals Report February 2014 chart More than half of Facebooks referral traffic now comes from mobile

Two weeks ago, Facebook released its latest quarterly earnings, in which the company also revealed new user milestones: 1.23 billion monthly active users, 945 million monthly active mobile users, 757 million daily active users, and 556 million daily active mobile users. The biggest jump was naturally for mobile users, up 39 percent year-over-year for monthly and up 49 percent year-over-year for daily.

76.83 percent of Facebook’s total monthly userbase and 73.44 percent of its daily userbase accesses the social network from a mobile device. Last but certainly not least, the company revealed last quarter that more than half of its advertising revenue now stems from mobile (53 percent).

As we’ve said before, Facebook has successfully transformed itself into a mobile company. It only took about three years, but the data now backs it up: Facebook has more and more mobile users, is driving more and more mobile traffic, and is making more and more money from mobile.

See also – Facebook’s referral traffic share grew over 48% in Q4 2013, Pinterest was up 30%, but Twitter dipped 4% and Report: Over the past year, search traffic has dropped while social traffic more than doubled

Top Image Credit: Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images

└ Tags: ,
a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

Flipboard brings Layout Density controls to Android, now YOU decide how many articles appear on each page

Feb14
by on February 14, 2014 at 3:48 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

Flipboard has rolled out an interesting new update to its Android app today, one that let’s you decide how many articles are displayed on a given page.

The new Layout Density feature is accessible via the main settings menu, and you can select ‘high’ which means that you’ll see a maximum number of headlines on each page, or ‘low’ which means the opposite. ‘Smart’, on the other hand, is the default option that lets Flipboard decide the best configuration for each page. Moreover, you can apply this layout to a specific section, or your entire Flipboard library.

Screenshot 2014 02 14 15 18 26 220x391 Flipboard brings Layout Density controls to Android, now YOU decide how many articles appear on each page    Screenshot 2014 02 14 15 19 01 220x391 Flipboard brings Layout Density controls to Android, now YOU decide how many articles appear on each page

This is the latest update to hit since 2.2.3 a couple of weeks back, which brought redesigned Cover Stories to help surface more interesting content.

You can download the updated Android app now, and there’s no word yet on whether this option will be arriving for iOS any time soon.

➤ Flipboard | Google Play

└ Tags: ,
a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

Cranley: Catholic Health Partners eyeing Bond Hill for new office space

Feb14
by on February 14, 2014 at 2:48 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, health care, mobiletopnews

Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley says Downtown-based Catholic Health Partners (CHP) is seriously considering a site in Bond Hill for 2,000 of its corporate employees, reports The Cincinnati Enquirer’s city hall reporter Cindi Andrews. CHP is Ohio’s largest health system, with more than 33,000 employees. Locally, it owns Mercy Health – the largest hospital operator  in […]

└ Tags: 
a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

Londoners can register a new .London Web address from April 29

Feb14
by on February 14, 2014 at 1:55 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, UK

London 520x338 Londoners can register a new .London Web address from April 29It has been a long time coming, but details around the new .London domain have surfaced today – yes, April 29 is the day you can procure your very own localized city-branded Web address.

This actually makes the UK capital one of the first cities in the world to officially unveil its new domain. The domain was secured by key city representatives in a deal with ICANN back in 2013, and the Internet body is launching around a thousand new generic top-level domains in total.

A YouGov survey found that more than 200,000 firms will stake their claim to the new .London addresses, and April 29 will herald the start of a three-month phase that gives Londoners priority in terms of reserving their desired .London address – trademark-owners will also be given priority. You can garner more details on the new .london domain here.

➤ New Dot London Domain Launches April 29  | Press Release

└ Tags: ,
a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

Musx for iPhone wants to make it easier to share your favorite tunes

Feb14
by on February 14, 2014 at 1:06 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Reviews

20140214 112722 520x245 Musx for iPhone wants to make it easier to share your favorite tunes

While there’s no shortage of mobile apps for discovering new music, that doesn’t stop a steady stream of new incarnations hitting app stores around the world.

The latest one to hit our radar goes by the name of Musx, an iPhone app that taps YouTube’s gargantuan arsenal of music to create a social network of sorts around good tunes. While that may not sound overly innovative on its own, Musx does actually bring a nicely designed app to the table.

The problem, as Musx sees it, is this. While there are many services that cater for individual listening – Spotify, Rdio, YouTube and many, many more – when it comes to sharing a song, they all rely on social platforms such as Facebook. But people typically don’t visit social networks to listen to music, and these networks don’t save or record music that is shared, thus they tend to get lost in the foggy ruins of time. This is where Musx wants to help.

How it works

You can view a ‘what’s popular’ stream from strangers, or manually search for songs, adding to playlists or queuing them up to play automatically. While this is something that YouTube itself is becoming more proficient at, Musx also lets you connect with friends directly.

Photo 14 02 2014 11 24 24 220x330 Musx for iPhone wants to make it easier to share your favorite tunes    Photo 14 02 2014 11 20 25 220x330 Musx for iPhone wants to make it easier to share your favorite tunes

Via the gift of Facebook, Twitter and your phone’s contacts, you can search for buddies already using the service – which, given Musx is still a fledgling platform, may not be many. It certainly wasn’t many in my case.

Photo 14 02 2014 11 20 49 220x330 Musx for iPhone wants to make it easier to share your favorite tunes    Photo 14 02 2014 11 23 21 220x330 Musx for iPhone wants to make it easier to share your favorite tunes

This could become a great music bookmarking and playlisting service for groups of friends. For now, it’s a good alternative to searching for and saving music you like on YouTube, while also getting a glimpse into trending tunes. However, you probably wouldn’t use this for discovering the latest, greatest new band. There are better apps for that.

Musx shows promise though. You can network with strangers, reshare music, add comments and give a thumbs-up. It’s like Facebook-meets-Instagram-meets-YouTube-meets… you get the picture.

Photo 14 02 2014 11 46 21 220x330 Musx for iPhone wants to make it easier to share your favorite tunes    Photo 14 02 2014 11 46 31 220x330 Musx for iPhone wants to make it easier to share your favorite tunes

Overall, Musx has been very well designed and thought-out and it’s certainly worth checking out. It’s optimized for iPhone and iPod touch, and is available to download from the App Store now.

➤ Musx | App Store

└ Tags: ,