Stream Companies has ranked as one of the 2009 fastest-growing, privately-held businesses in the Philadelphia region by the Philadelphia 100â, a joint project of the Wharton Small Business Development Center, the Entrepreneurs’ Forum of Greater Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia Business Journal.  This year the Philadelphia 100 had over 700 nominated companies, and winners represent one of the most impressive groups … Continue Reading

Texting By Age Group

Text messaging has outpaced voice calling as the pre-eminent means of communication on mobile devices. Accoring to Nielsen in Q1 2009, the average US mobile subscriber sent or received 486 text messages per month but made just 182 calls.

Does this mean my parents text more than call?  Nielsen data shows that heavy texting is not uniform across all mobile users, further users ages 13 to 24 text disproportionately more than those
in other age groups.

Ages 13-to-17-year-olds sent and received more than … Continue Reading

From a recent AdAge Article…
…Mr. Bradford (CEO of Vitrue)explained: “If a site has 100 fans and your wall post gets five clicks, that’s a 5% CTR. But if you assume only about 20% of those folks actually saw the post, it’s really a 20% click-through rate.” That’s better than the click-through rate of the average e-mail campaign, he said, and certainly better than the rate for an online ad. It also doesn’t count how many people commented on the post or said they liked it but didn’t click through.
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My notes form the DigiDay: APPS

1. First Speaker
   1. Presentation

      APPS State of the Industry Survey: More than 84% of Marketers are Satisfied with Their Apps Experience; Nearly 60% Expect Budgets to Rise (in: Metrics)

      Aug 12, 2009

      The knowledge base for apps is growing, as a remarkably similar percentage of publishers and marketers say they’ve built at least one for their readers or brands. Some 68.9% of publisher respondents and 68.8% of marketers have fielded apps. Some … Continue Reading

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Stream Companies, has made the 2009 Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America.  Dave and Jay would like to thank everyone at Stream for their hard work and dedication to make this acheivement possible.

Google has been working towards creating the world’s next communication product, Wave.  Wave will be a free, open source, Google product combining two huge internet components; instant messaging and e-mail.  Even though Wave is not accessible to the public, there has been talk about the potential benefits of such a service as well … Continue Reading