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Four Easy Ways to Create Content

30, Jul 2010

We all have days when we need to write a post or article, but just can’t think of what to do. In times like these, I like to dip into my bag of cliches and fire up one of four tried and tested methods for putting a post together: 1: Get someone else to create [...]

Worlds Oldest Twitter User Dies Aged 104

29, Jul 2010

Users of the popular social networking site may have heard of Ivy Bean, the site’s oldest user. Ivy enjoyed a cult following, cultivating online friendships with people like Peter Andre, Gordon Brown and Richard Wilson. Unfortunately the 104 year old passed away early yesterday, leaving the identity of the current oldest user unknown. All of [...]

If You Only Do One Thing Today…

27, Jul 2010

… make sure you test your website. When was the last time that you gave your site a quick once over? If you’re like most website owners, it could be anything from a few hours to a few years. If it’s been a few months, then you could be missing out on leads. Changes to [...]

The Queen’s Family Snaps now on Flickr

26, Jul 2010

It looks like even the Royal Family are embracing social media sites. The British Monarchy now has an account on popular photo-sharing site Flickr. It’s not your typical family photo album, unless your idea of a typical family photo includes forced smiles and overly elaborate clothes, but it does provide an interesting look back at [...]

Official – Bloggers and Tech Reporters Run Out of Things to Say About Facebook!

22, Jul 2010

If you’ve read the FirstFound Blog, Optimise, or any tech/internet blog over the past few months, you’ll have noticed a recurring theme. Facebook. “It’s the second biggest site on the web! No, wait! It’s the biggest site on the web! It’s got 300,000,000 members! No, 400,000,000! And it’s the secret to succeeding in business!” – [...]

Google vs Facebook Rumbles On?

14, Jul 2010

Long time readers of the FirstFound Blog and Optimise will know that web users are in the middle of a battle for Internet supremacy. On one side is the search giant Google, facing off against social networking leviathan Facebook. Over the past few months, Facebook has overtaken Google as the most visited site in the [...]

Facebook Introduce “Panic Button”

12, Jul 2010

Following months of pressure from the tabloid papers, Facebook have finally followed in the footsteps of Bebo and MySpace by adding a “Panic Button” for younger users. ClickCeop The new application has been developed by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (Ceop) Centre, and puts young internet users directly in touch with the centre’s online [...]

How NOT to Engage With a Social Media Audience

6, Jul 2010

Oh dear. It’s not like the Beeb to make a mistake with their microsites. But as The Media Blog reported over the weekend, someone in the BBC web design department doesn’t like Facebook. The page was only a placeholder while the new Olympics microsite was completed, but the saddo label is hardly going to encourage [...]

Looking for Some Blogging Inspiration?

1, Jul 2010

It happens to the best of us. The World Cup is reaching the crucial stages, work is piling up and you’d rather spend your evening in front of the TV instead of hunched over yet another computer screen. But despite that, you really, really need to get a blog post up. But you just can’t [...]

The Rise of the Silver Surfers

30, Jun 2010

Here at the FirstFound Blog, we’ve been predicting the rise of the “Silver Surfers” for a while. Now new research from UKOM suggests that the over-50′s are the fastest growing online group. Over the past 12 months, the number of UK internet users grew from 36.9 million to 38.8 million – and the majority of [...]


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