Tag: "social network"
Google+ TV Commercials
Did you know in the United States Google has been running Google+ TV Commercials/ Ads since December 2011? Admittedly, I only found about this on the weekend and was intrigued to see what sort of commercials they were running. Seeing as Facebook is the number 1 social network in every country bar China and Russia [...]
Read MoreWhat is Pinterest?
A new social media website is taking the world by storm – http://pinterest.com/ According to Alexa.com Pinterest is currently the 110th most popular website in the world, with a but on your average weekday is around the 60th most popular website in the world – so it’s getting HUGE traffic, particularly in the USA. What [...]
Read MoreGoogle+ now open to under 18s
Google has opened up their Google Plus social network so teanagers aged 13-17 are now allowed to use the site. Previously Google banned any users under 18 from using the website. Google has also added increased security and privacy controls for users aged under 18. So are we going to see lots of teens singing [...]
Read MoreGoogle adds +1 Button to Google Toolbar
A Google Toolbar update has been released for Internet Explorer users, which now has the +1 button integrated. This will be sure to provide further support for Google Plus and getting more people using this new social networking site. This is roughly how it looks: This new feature will simply let you +1 webpages on [...]
Read MoreGoogle+ Introduces Facial Recognition
Facial Recognition has been added to the Google+ social network as an opt-in feature. To enable this feature on your Google Plus account go to your settings page: https://plus.google.com/settings/plus Facebook some time ago added Facial Recognition to their site, but this feature was opt-out and could automatically recognise your face and those of your friends [...]
Read MoreFacebook buys Gowalla
It has been reported that Facebook has purchased Geo-loation mobile application, Gowalla. Gowalla has competed with Foursquare for several years and always been the smaller of the 2 location based social networks. Gowalla is based in Austin, Texas and has around 30 employees. It has been speculated these employees will move in Facebook’s mobile division [...]
Read MoreEmo Social Network Launched
A new social network has been created where uses don’t have to use the real names, can discuss ‘sensitive’ topcis and generally geared towards an alternative audience. Ok, it may not be specifically designed for the ‘emo crowd’ but it seems nice to have a blog post with this title, maybe lots of people are [...]
Read MoreHow to write a quality Twitter Bio
There is no doubt Twitter is a powerful business social network, and with it’s close integration with LinkedIn I really find Twitter a useful marketing tool and information source. Fact is this site gets a fair proportion of monthly traffic from my Twitter profile. So what is the best way we can optimise our Twitter [...]
Read MoreBret Taylor on Facebook Mobile
Bret Taylor, Facebook CTO has had a video interview with TechCrunch, giving some great insights into Facebook’s mobile platform. Recently Facebook launched a suite of new mobile products – an iPad application, Facebook Messenger, and also totally revamped their Mobile Site to match their application layout. Bret goes on to say of Facebook’s 800 million [...]
Read MoreGoogle Plus Developer API released
Google has now released to the public their developer API for the Google Plus social network. This will allow developers to build applications on-top of the Google Plus social network and extract public user data. If you are a developer and would like to explore how to build an application, go here: https://developers.google.com/+/ If you have [...]
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