Year: 2009

So last night Google announced that it is launching a new operating system to rival Microsoft Google started life as a simple search engine focused on the quality of search results, with minimal advertising on its home page, and it grew its user...

A recent report from the Associated Press has revealed that in the US the FTC is considering regulating the blogosphere The reason it is considering this is to stop undisclosed sponsored blog posts Frederic Lardinois comments: According to the FTC,...

You all know how much I like a good viral, well Samsung is reportedly about to release a new 12 mega pixel HD camera (WB1000) next week and to generate some excitement it has released this clever viral video Real or not real - you decide Either way...

Unless you have been hidden under a large rock recently, you will know that Facebook has just launched its username URL tool which enables you to get a personal URL free, instead of using the exceptionally long ones which were automatically...

I have just finished reading a book written by the current US president Don't worry he wrote it before he got the job Basically, it is his story of how he grows up in Hawaii apart from his father who lives back in Kenya It is a really heart warming...

I have just read a very interesting post from Stan Schroeder regarding Twitter usage in May 2009 In his post Stan discusses a new Harvard Business Review study as revealing: Most Twitter users don’t actually use the service much, or even at all In...

I read an article in the Guardian that claims that the New York Times has named its first social media editor When I first read the title I wondered what the job would actually entail The article quotes a memo from Jonathan Landman, which describes...

Warning this is not a PR Post I am glad I can finally post this after having serious broadband issues all week My family and I have just returned from a lovely trip to northern Spain in a small beach resort called La Pineda We liked the resort...

I read an interesting dual post from Todd Defren and Paula Drum offering some top tips for social media marketers  I won’t go through all of the points but the text that really stuck out to me was this: “Your agency needs to walk the walk – I...

Working in the magical world of social media, we are regularly looking to create accounts for clients across various social platforms and often - it is a well known client - we find that a particular account has been already taken by a cyber...