Youtube: Just Clicking or Watching A Full Video - What makes more sense??

How much sense do such survey analysis make?

Every now and then loads of surveys with loads of analysis on different online Video sites pop up. Sometimes talking about their clicks per day, sometimes about viewer strength, sometimes about number of videos uploaded.....funny part is no where you come across any analysis based on how many watched full video they clicked...

Clicking on button to watch a video vs watching the full video which you clicked are two different stories altogether. I guess latter makes more sense. Real popularity based on mob liking is what will be evident from the same...hope to see some such survey in times to come as this will require loads of efforts on part of concerned statisticians...

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Glitch in Biggest Book Webstore Sales Rank: Doesn't looks so at the first blush!

One of the biggest online bookstore has been removing gay-themed books from its list of top selling books since past two months.

Why? Well the reason told to gay romance publisher Mark Probst was:

In consideration of our entire customer base, we exclude "adult" material from appearing in some searches and best seller lists. Since these lists are generated using sales ranks, adult materials must also be excluded from that feature.

Result was that "adult" material, like Probst's Rise and Fall of Gay Culture got blacklisted.

But guess what Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds still remained on the list. Hmm seems like need to check the definition of adult material :)

When this bookstore realized about the the same, it once again clarified:

We recently discovered a glitch to our Amazon sales rank feature that is in the process of being fixed. We're working to correct the problem as quickly as possible.

But do you think this whole issue is going to be simple. Yeah, guessed it right. It will not be ;)

Gawker writer Ryan Tate is not ready to accept this glitch as it comes. He questioned that

how the said glitch appears to have systemically targeted a huge number of gay romance books and autobiographies while leaving so many similar straight books alone.

Well can prove to be a hot topic on Oprah's show....who knows may be Oprah is considering to have a peek into it :)

Courtesy: businessinsider.com

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Bored with Twitter?

According to estimates by Neilson, 60% Of Twitter Users Quit After A Month. Now that was I guess, pretty obvious. Adding to the bad news for twitter further is that its social networking peers MySpace and Facebook are presently maintaining a much higher percentage of their new users each month -- approx 60%.

But then there is a catch in Neilson estimates: He is only measuring visits to the Twitter.com URL. Majority of Tweeeeeets are via mobile phones and other applications such as Tweetdeck...Hmmm further adding to the good news for twitter is that its 40% retention rate is higher than it was a month ago.

Personally I am not finding twitter very attractive ): May be will find it interesting after few weeks or months down the line :)

Courtesy: businessinsider.com

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