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Google Fails to Learn From Buzz

2, Jun 2011

Remember Google Buzz? No? Well, neither does anyone else. Especailly not Google, who seem determined to try and out-Facebook Facebook. This time, it’s with social sharing. Forgetting that the main reason we all use Google is the clean, simple, uncluttered interface and generally trustworthy results, Google have decided to let people mix up the results [...]

So You Want to Friend The Queen?

9, Nov 2010

As of yesterday, Her Majesty The Queen and her assorted children, grandchildren and royal hangers-on have joined the social media revolution and signed up for the internet’s most popular networking website, Facebook. Unfortunately, you won’t be able to add Queen Elizabeth as a friend, poke Prince Philip or RSVP to Prince Harry’s famous fancy dress [...]

Is Social Bookmarking Still Relevant for SEO?

20, Oct 2010

Before the first ever Tweet, before FourSquare checked into the scene and before Facebook became the all-encompassing behemoth that it is now, there was social bookmarking. SEOs loved social bookmarking websites. They were easy to use, passed along some authority and generated huge amounts of traffic. Then, slowly, the social bookmarking sites started to implement [...]

BBC iPlayer Relaunch – Social Media Included as Standard

6, Sep 2010

It’s not just their news page that  BBC Internet have been revamping – following a very popular beta test, the Beeb have relaunched their iPlayer service. Now users won’t just be able to catch up with BBC TV programmes, they’ll be able to share thier opinions of the show using the integrated social media functions. [...]

North Korea Hits the Social Media Trail

23, Aug 2010

It looks like even isolationist dictatorships want to sign up for social media sites, as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (or North Korea to it’s friends) has demonstrated this month. The South Asian Communist state has signed up for YouTube, Twitter and Facebook – aiming to share its interests and dreams with the wider [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

What the World Cup can Teach you About Online Marketing

18, Jun 2010

The World Cup is trying to teach you something. You might not be able to hear it yet, over the drone of the Vuvuzelas and the muttering of Mick McCarthy, but it’s speaking to you. Despite the sponsors, it’s not telling you to drink more cola, move your money to a particular bank or wear [...]

Are You Confused by Social Media?

11, Jun 2010

Finding it Hard to Understand Social Media? Twitter, Myspace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Digg, Mixx… Do any of those words actually mean anything to you? If you’ve spent the last few years building your business instead of surfing the web, then the rise of social media might have passed you by. But now you’ve heard about it, [...]


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