Michele Neylon, Author at Social Media Expert

Google To Kill Off Private Profiles

As Google rejigs its entire user interface and renames a bunch of its services to fit in with its new web 3.0 (or whatever) vision user profiles are being changed. …. From July 31st 2011 private profiles are being not only disabled, but actually deleted: The purpose of Google Profiles is to enable you to…

Fox Twitter Account Hacked?

Looks like one of the Fox News Twitter accounts may have been hacked, as it’s spewing “news” of Obama’s death .. See screenshot below: If this is a prank it’s in pretty bad taste .. So I would assume that the account has been compromised .. and since it’s July 4th in the US it…

Twitter Hits New Record

Twitter has released another new statistic It’s now doing 200 million “tweets” per day. In January 2009 they were “only” sending 2 million / day. Here’s a nice graphic to show how that all compares with various other things: There’s a full blog post about it over on the official twitter blog. Of course they’re…

Mixing Messages?

Maybe I’m just old and grumpy, but I really don’t see why I would want to “friend” a business on Facebook: I’m quite happy to “follow” or “connect with” or something else – I just think that “friend” (as a concept) is just not the right one for me.

Angry Birds Gets Real

Angry Birds is one of those games that is all too easy to dismiss, but it’s also incredibly easy to get addicted. Just ask anyone who made the mistake of installing it on their mobile device! But how would it play out if you brought it into the real world? German mobile company T-Mobile did…

Turntable.fm Brings A Different Social Angle To Music

I’ve seen a few “social” music services and apps over the past few years. They’ve all been quite interesting, but not overly engaging. Turntable.fm might turn that experience on its head. You can now chat with friends (and strangers) whilst “DJing”. If you like a tune you can vote it up and give…

Author: Michele Neylon