
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.

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




