Category: Facebook

  • The Facebook Issue Summed Up

    Award winning cartoonist Clay Bennett has managed to capture the essence of the Facebook problem in a simple yet effective cartoon: 3/30/2018- Facebook #Facebook #Facebookgate #CambridgeAnalytica https://t.co/E95zFaT0R4 pic.twitter.com/z3yqBdGWWS — Clay Bennett (@BennettCartoons) March 30, 2018

  • Irish Social Media Awards 2014 Open Nominations

    Irish Social Media Awards 2014 Open Nominations

    The Irish Social Media Awards are being held in June in Dublin and nominations opened today. As with other years nominations are 100% free. This year’s categories are: Facebook categories: Facebook Page for a Business (Non Campaign) Facebook Page for a Non-Profit/Organisation Facebook Page for a Business (owner managed) Integrated Facebook Campaign: Page, App, Ads…

  • If Toddlers Used Facebook

    If Toddlers Used Facebook

    George Takei “gets” social media and his Facebook page is probably one of the more amusing ones on Facebook. From earlier today:

  • Social Network Wars Explained

    Social Network Wars Explained

    Social media networks want more users. Of course if you’re trying to grow your social network then it makes sense that you use your users’ existing connections .. So a lot of social networks tap into the data available via Twitter, Facebook and other services. Of course by doing this they can upset each other…

  • Social Media Revealed

    Social Media Revealed

    A lot of the companies flogging social media services to businesses probably shouldn’t be in the business at all. A lot of the “advice” they’re giving companies is terrible and yet they charge their clients “top dollar” for it. (Not all of the companies operating in the space are “evil”, but a lot are) The…

  • Twitter Goes Offline

    Twitter Goes Offline

    Twitter has been offline for the last 30 minutes. It’s not even showing the (in)famous “fail whale” at the moment! So you can expect to see a surge of traffic to Facebook and Google+ 🙂

  • Facebook Buys Instagram For One Billion, But Who Else Was In The Running?

    Facebook Buys Instagram For One Billion, But Who Else Was In The Running?

    Last weekend the news broke that Facebook was acquiring Instagram for $1 billion. Needless to say the tech news circles were buzzing with this announcement all week. According to an article on TheNextWeb Twitter had also tried to acquire them, but failed. And others suggest that Google may have been trying to acquire them ..…

  • Google+ Vs Facebook Humour

    Came across this animated image on Google+ earlier today and thought it was amusing enough to share: No idea where it originated, so if you know the image source please let me know  

  • Gowalla To Go The Way Of The Dodo

    Gowalla is to be shutdown. After being acquired by Facebook the “also ran” to FourSquare will be shutting down early in 2012, according to Techcrunch. So while Facebook may have acquired the skills and experience of the FourSquare team, they’re not taking over all the data. So will Facebook use some of the technology to…

  • Facebook Acquires Gowalla

    Facebook has acquired Gowalla according to reports. Gowalla, which offers very similar functionality to FourSquare, never quite seemed to be as popular as its rival. Facebook had been offering a location based service for its mobile users, but they were reportedly going to be phasing it out, but with the addition of Gowalla that will…