The guys at The Onion come up with some very amusing and incisive videos. Their recent one on social media gurus is particularly biting – I suspect some marketing / media types are probably laughing nervously at this.. Or maybe they’re so wrapped up in themselves that they don’t realise the truth? Enjoy! [youtube]http://youtu.be/CK62I-4cuSY[/youtube] Related […]
Instagram may have been acquired by Facebook, but it’s still a separate service. Unlike the more “traditional” web services Instagram started on mobile only, but has been moving towards the “web” in recent weeks. A couple of weeks back they announced “user profiles” which allow users – both individual and business – to reference their […]
If you’re using Spotify you might be sharing a little more information with the social network – and your friends – than you’d like By default Spotify will happily publicise your listening activities, so if you’re not careful you can spam your friends’ Facebook streams with your music.. You can turn this off pretty easily. […]
Spotify is now available to Irish users. In case you’re not familiar with it Spotify is a digital music service that gives you “on demand” access to over 18 million songs. If you like music then you’ll love it. So now the digital music service seems to have quietly enabled access to Irish users over […]
The importance of social media and the internet in general during this year’s US Presidential elections is probably going to be talked about for months if not years. But what is really fascinating to see is that Obama’s official social media channels on Facebook and Twitter broke records by themselves. Around 4am this morning (Irish […]
While practically every media outlet on the planet is churning out stories about the US Presidential “showdown” we thought we’d have a quick look at what Facebook are doing. On their “stories” site they’re collating anonymous data about US voters. It’s pretty cool to watch, though it won’t give you any indication of which way […]
If you’re active on Twitter or Facebook (or both) then your streams probably fill up with a lot of talk of politics – especially when there’s an election going on.. At the moment the big one is obviously the US Presidential Election, but there’s plenty of others.. So what do you do if you’re not […]
A lot of us use social media, but maybe some of us are using the social sphere more for interactions than real life.. The infographic below, from Confused.com, goes into some of this – it’s quite amusing, but it also has a very strong ring of truth!
If you work in IT you probably have an affinity for coffee.. if you don’t, then your colleagues probably do .. So using coffee to explain social media isn’t really that surprising .. Which social network should be used for what is always one of those questions .. And now you have a coffee analogy […]
Zynga laid off a staff the same day that the tech media were distracted with Apple’s launch. Now Anonymous are coming after them – or at least this video claims that they are: [youtube]http://youtu.be/OG1ypqhWDQ0[/youtube] They’ve also made available the transcript of the video (since it’s a computer generated voice) as well as files that they’re […]
