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  • 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…

  • IIA Net Visionary Awards Revamps Social Media Category

    IIA Net Visionary Awards Revamps Social Media Category

    This year’s Irish Internet Association Net Visionary Awards features a social media category, as it has done for the last few years. However this year is slightly different. Instead of simply having a “best us of” type award they’ve renamed the category to: Most Creative Use of Social Media for compelling customer engagement And they…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Which Twitter Client Do You Use?

    If you use Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn on a regular basis then you probably don’t rely solely on the “standard” web interface. You’re more likely to be using some kind of desktop (or mobile) client. Personally I’ve been a big fan of Tweetdeck, but the last few days it has become more unstable than usual…