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2012 is meant to be the start of The End of Days, so these predictions may have a very short shelf life. We are living in unprecedented times. In a social media industry that is barely 5 years old, it has helped to elect Presidents, topple dictators, disrupt industries and free customers. The force of Continue reading →

We’ve seen some new social features introduced to Google’s search engine recently. As long as your social media accounts (with the exception of Facebook) are linked to your Google account, what you see in your Google search results will be influenced by what your friends have posted online, indicated by annotations under links. These are Continue reading →

We’ve got search engines, decision engines and now a recommendation engine – Google Hotpot. The location-based tool is “powered by you and your friends” to review real-world places in exchange for recommendations of businesses you might want to try. Facebook recently launched its Places offering which allows people to check-in on their mobile phones. This Continue reading →

Keeping to that 140 character limit on Twitter can be rather annoying when you have more than one thing to share. We often find that we need to put each link into a separate update, which can be inconvenient and leading to multiple updates and extra noise. This problem is about to be a thing of Continue reading →

Here is an interesting infographic showing us how marketers are using social media in 2010. The report shows us some interesting data including the average time invested in social media each week (less than 10 hours), how long a marketers’ business or brand has engaged in social media and the clear demand to do more Continue reading →

Pipl is a search engine for people. You can type anyone’s name and location and potentially bring up their online profile, blogs and even their electoral roll details. Pipl claims that the ‘deep web’ that they search has up to 500 times more content that the usual surface web, but this has (until now) remained Continue reading →

Clever folks from Harvard have tracked 300 million tweets over a 3 year period to find out the mood of the USA during various hours throughout the day. Excluding the various disparities between the mornings and evening of different states (and all the other various inferences they must have made), this is an interesting study Continue reading →

Whilst perusing NMA’s website today I came across an article written by Nigel Walley about the social media bandwagon that everyone is desperately trying to hop on to, entitled “brands really need to calm down about social media” I think Nigel was being purposely provocative in order to stir up a few so-called social media Continue reading →

Since the beginning of December Google have been doing a huge promotional push surrounding their browser Google Chrome.  The campaign leads with the message that Chrome is a faster browser and is utilising various channels such as press, digital and traditional outdoor as well as online across 12 European countries. The push comes as the Continue reading →

Thought I’d update you with a follow up to my last blog post about the changes to Facebook. French site PC INpact has unearthed some screen grabs of the new layout.  They’re not too different from those available over at the developer roadmap, but they do show how photo pages and drop downs will work. Continue reading →