Are an improved look and feel and a few functionality tweaks enough to get you interested in Google+? 170 million are already there! Its nine months since Google+ launched as a private beta and – until now – Google have remained tight-lipped about how many active users can be found on the service. CEO Larry [...]
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Facebook Timeline hits brand pages this March
Facebook’s controversial Timeline view continues its march to world domination – brand pages must take on the new look by 30 March! Timeline will be familiar to those with a personal Facebook profile – your page is divided into two columns with posts attached, justified left or right, to a central timeline. Logging into your [...]
What cost Twitter Brand Pages?
Businesses can no longer arrogantly assume that users will come to their website as users opt for social networking’s walled garden – but at what price? $25,000 perhaps? Twitter’s about to roll out ‘Brand Pages’ for commercial partners who’ve committed to spending $25,000 on its ad products, including promoted tweets and trends. The pages give [...]
Summify shuts as social networks look to filter noise
Canadian start-up Summify has been acquired by Twitter leading to the “mothballing” of the current Summify service. Summify was designed to cut through the noise of social media streams and present its interpretation of the” content that matters to you”. Filtering is an Achilles heel for Twitter and its social networking brethren – there are [...]
Twitter blasts Search, plus Your World
Twitter has complained about changes made by Google to integrate its social network Google+ into the search engine’s results page. The new feature, called Search plus Your World, will automatically push results from Google+ up the search rankings. Tweeting on the news, Twitter’s lawyer Alex Macgillivray described it as a “bad day for the internet”. [...]
5 tips for social media success – 12 (work) days before Christmas
With now just 5 (work) days left before Christmas we continue stringing together 12 posts culminating in a pear (tree) on December 23rd. Today – top tips for social media. While it may be hard to believe, given the money you’ve sunk into the company website over the years, for many people “the internet” IS [...]
Facebook rolls out Timeline update
Ch-ch-changes are a coming to your social network profile as Facebook starts rolling out its Timeline profile. Billed as “the new way for people to share their life story in one place”, Timeline was actually announced at the F8 Conference by Mark Zuckerberg as far back as September, but is only just being released into [...]
OFCOM benchmarks international communications market
UK customers shop online more than any of their European counterparts although only 4% of UK homes are currently taking advantage of “superfast” (above 24Mbps ) broadband services. Moreover, only France can beat UK prices…. Those are among the findings of the latest International Communications Market report (.pdf) from OFCOM – the UK’s media regulator. [...]
8 top news stories – 12 (work) days before Christmas
With now just 8 (work) days left before Christmas we continue stringing together 12 posts culminating in a pear (tree) on December 23rd. Today – the year’s top news stories. It’s not the weather, nor X-Factor scandals that have topped the most popular news list in 2011. Rather Brits have been sharing stories ranging from [...]
Let’s fly! #newtwitter hits mobile and smartphones
Recent iterations of Facebook and Google+ left us wondering what Twitter were up to… but not any more. Approacheth #newtwitter…. A redesigned version of the microblogging service Twitter is set to hit accounts over the next few weeks after new smart phone apps and the mobile site were pushed to distribution yesterday. Tweetdeck, recently acquired [...]
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New Sky EPG – 2012 beta test software updated
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New Sky EPG 2012 – Should you let your customers loose on your betas?
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Google+ new-look set to wow a growing audience
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Search engine optimisation toolkit – hone your SEO skills!
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Learning from Alphagov, Betagov and gov.uk
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New Sky EPG 2012 – Should you let your customers loose on your betas?
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3 web design tips – 12 (work) days before Christmas
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Location, location, location – Facebook acquires Gowalla
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A night on the tiles as Metro comes to Xbox 360
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4 top tech trends for 2012 – 12 (work) days before Christmas
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