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  • FIFA Cracking Down on Twitter Users

    FIFA Cracking Down on Twitter Users

    FIFA has sent takedown notices to Twitter in relation to Twitter users “abusing” the FIFA trademarks. More details here Related articles FIFA has cracked down on that World Cup Twitter bot (and other people tweeting and Vining and GIFing goals) (niemanlab.org) Twitter removes copyright infringing avatars of FIFA World Cup fans (neowin.net) FIFA Targets Twitter…

  • Attention Seekers On Twitter

    Attention Seekers On Twitter

    Gary Vaynerchuk posted this deck yesterday. It’s well worth reviewing and sharing, as it highlights one of the worst things that people and businesses do on Twitter: https://www.slideshare.net/vaynerchuk/being-human-ontwitterslidesharev3 I’ve seen a LOT of businesses abusing Twitter this way. Sure, if someone pays you or your business a compliment you might want to share it. But…

  • 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 Is All About Permission

    If you’re going to use “social” as part of your online strategy you need to remember a key concept. Permission. Earlier this morning I got an email “invite” from a contact to join a site that likes to see itself as being “social”. I ignored the invite but the wording of the email really touched…

  • LinkedIn’s April Fool’s

    Today being April 1st the web is awash with April Fool’s jokes and pranks. Some of them are pretty clever, while some of them are downright silly. One that caught my eye was LinkedIn’s If you go into the “people you may know” section you’re in for a surprise:  

  • Facebook Getting Serious With Places

    It looks like Facebook is getting set to make a serious play in location based services in Europe. According to an article in today’s Guardian the social networking behemoth is about to launch of “Deals” which would give users benefits and discounts at local retailers. The company has announced partnership deals with several “heavy hitters”…

  • Facebook Goes Down – Millions Scream

    Last night Facebook suffered an outage. It wasn’t a particularly long outage, but due to the site’s sheer size the impact of the outage was felt globally. Millions of people were forced to talk to their spouses, girlfriends, co-workers and neighbours face to face (in real life). Oh no!

  • Zuckerberg Redefines Pretentious

    Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has been getting a lot of flak in recent weeks about Facebook’s attitude and handling of privacy for its users. During a recent interview Zuckerberg was asked several times about privacy. He failed to give a convincing answer. Watch the entire interview to see how Zuckerberg, yet again, redefines “pretentious” once again.…

  • Should We Trust Facebook?

    In the last few weeks and months Facebook has been receiving a LOT of media attention. While the social networking site would have attracted plenty of media attention related to its growth, the more recent spate of interest has centred around privacy. Or more accurately, the lack of it. Back in January of this year…

  • Bebo Shutdown or Sale Iminent – So Where Does All the Content Go?

    AOL bought Bebo a couple of years ago. At the time they probably thought they’d got themselves a bargain. Bebo was doing really well in the UK and Ireland. It wasn’t doing so well in the US, but that could have changed.. Of course it didn’t change. Bebo’s traffic shrank and upstart Facebook came along…