Social news took a step forward this week with 2 significant, but very different moves from Reuters and Tumblr. While Reuters is focusing on how to socialise the news community, Tumblr is recruiting journalists to write about…itself
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Google Android have developed a new system called Bouncer, designed to rid the Android Market of malicious apps. The company, which has been criticised for its open ended approach to verifying apps, will now scan every app to see if it’s malware while allowing users to combat them on their own devices…
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Google have been ordered by a French commercial court to pay €500,000 to a French mapping company after it was found guilty of abusing the dominant position of its Google Maps application…
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A selection of advanced tips to get the most out of your Facebook ads, including new functionality available within Facebook’s Open Graph. Facebook ads are all about experimenting to get the best results, but follow these tips if you want to kick your ads onto the next stage.
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If you aren’t already on the visual sharing site Pinterest, then consider this another reason (among many others) to sign up to the service. It has experienced the fastest growing site in terms of referral traffic than any other social media site. It’s volume of traffic is so great that if you combined the referral traffic of LinkedIn, Youtube, Google+ and Reddit, it still wouldn’t beat the growth experienced by Pinterest…
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Since Facebook filed their IPO papers last night there has been huge buzz online about some of the mind blowing numbers to come out of that filing. For me the most interesting elements were around their mobile strategy with the company even admitting it was one of the biggest threats they faced going forward given their reliance on the desktop…
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Having the video market practically covered, Youtube have turned towards making the company a self sustainable business with its own revenue model. While the majority of it has concentrated on advertising, most notably those banner adverts that appear at the bottom of every video, they are considering the possibility of allowing content…
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Twitter has been getting a huge amount of coverage lately over its decision to censor tweets based on the country that the tweeter is in, but Google also quietly unveiled a similar policy that has gone largely unnoticed until recent days…
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Many media outlets, both traditional and web, have been covering the upcoming compulsory introduction of Facebook Timeline, which is causing quite a stir, and the main response seems to be one of fear and dislike. Sophos, the technology security company, conducted a survey of 4,110 people…
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After a relatively slow uptake among publishers, Google are preparing a overhaul of their online content OnePass to mark its first year in existence. The upgrades are not yet confirmed but they will be implemented over the next few weeks to help increase the uptake among publishers…
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A rundown of 5 of the best social TV campaigns, featuring TV checkins, tagging songs on Shazam and voting for your favourite TV ad to be broadcast on national TV. Social TV is often tipped as the ‘future’ or ‘coming soon’, but these campaigns show that it has well and truly arrived.
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As Facebook lines up it’s $100 billion IPO in the next couple of months, I wondered is there any chance the social network could follow in the footsteps of its predecessors like Myspace and Bebo and completely fall off the map? With so much money tied up in the venture, it is a question that investors will be looking at closely over the coming months…
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