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Google+ new-look set to wow a growing audience

April 17, 2012 Facebook , Google+ , Social media , Social networking

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

March 6, 2012 Facebook , Social networking

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 [...]

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What cost Twitter Brand Pages?

January 30, 2012 Facebook , Social media , Social networking , Twitter

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 [...]

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Twitter blasts Search, plus Your World

January 12, 2012 Facebook , Social media , Social networking

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”. [...]

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Facebook rolls out Timeline update

December 18, 2011 Facebook , Social media , Social networking

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 [...]

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