6 June 2012
Salesforce signals social intention with $689 million Buddy Media acquisition
By Tim Gibbon
Salesforce.com gets social with $689 million USD acquisition of Buddy Media enabling the sale of ads through social networks; then Oracle responds raising the steaks again.
5 June 2012
URL shortening service bitly rolls out redesign and rides storm
By Tim Gibbon
Popular URL shortening service bitly rolls out a new redesign, functionality and cops a fair bit of flack in the process.
24 May 2012
TFL tube Twitter handles bring real-time travel information to London’s underground
By Tim Gibbon
Transport for London (TFL) has created Twitter handles for all its tube lines in an effort to keep passengers up-to-date with the latest information across the London tube network.
21 May 2012
Will Facebook be the beginning of the technology IPO crash?
By Tim Gibbon
Even before the recent Facebook IPO, there has been much speculation surrounding the future of dot coms. Not surprisingly, past the Facebook mania the debate has also turned to whether technology IPOs would experience boom and bust again.
16 May 2012
General Motors pulls $10M Facebook advertising ahead of social networks IPO
By Rachel Hawkes
The world’s biggest car company General Motors has pulled $10 million USD of Facebook advertising just day before the social network is begins trading on the stock exchange.
20 April 2012
Cleve Gibbon from Cognifide to guest speak at Internet World
By Tim Gibbon
There’s no doubt that Internet World is going to be a bit special this year. Not only is Cleve Gibbon from Cognifide guest speaking, it also happens to be the 20th anniversary of what UBM claims is Europe’s largest digital marketing and internet conference.
10 April 2012
The Adobe Digital Marketing Summit EMEA
By Tim Gibbon
The revamped The Adobe Digital Marketing Summit EMEA 2012 checks in at UK shores next month. It sees many firsts including our friends Cognifide sponsoring the web experience marketing (WEM) track.
3 February 2012
Google quietly enables country specific blocking for Blogger
By Rachel Hawkes
Last week Twitter caused a bit of an international stir when it announced it could now block tweets on a per country basis. Yesterday, news that Google had in fact introduced the same thing three weeks earlier (on January 9th). Ironically, the day before Twitter announced its blocks, Reporters Without Borders released its index showing that Australia, the UK and the United States have less freedom of press this year than last.
19 January 2012
Dachis Group unveils Social Performance Monitor for brands
By Tim Gibbon
We blogged back in September 2011 about social media agency the Dachis Group releasing its Social Business Index. The US-based social media company has now unveiled its latest app, the Social Performance Monitor (SPM).
20 December 2011
The X Factor: Social media and the live shows infographic – Week 10
By Rachel Hawkes
Social media and The X Factor: what we learnt [infographic] from series 8 including Social media predicted the winner;; There’s no ‘hindsight bias’ here and Tulisa gains most Twitter followers for the first time in the series
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