Well Facebook was a bit of a flutter yesterday, at least in my stream, with people wondering why there were so many hash tags around. I assumed people were cross-posting from twitter to facebook, but no it’s not that. Facebook have gone the way of Twitter and Instagram and quite possibly numerous other services and […]
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Where Should You Post That Update?
There’s quite a few entertaining graphics doing the rounds to help us all decide where we should share our thoughts (and other people’s wisdom) This one from College Humor is excellent: What do you think?
Instagram Reminds Users of Terms of Service Change
Remember the Instagram debacle? While the company may have listened to users’ outrage (and there was a lot of that.. ) they’ve still made changes to their terms of service, although the changes are much less drastic than the originally planned ones. In an email sent to users of the service today the company underlines […]
Social Media In 2012
2012 was an interesting year with Instagram being acquired by Facebook, Psy exploding on the music / video scene (and all the parodies that followed), Facebook had their IPO and so much more. Here’s a nice graphic from The SEO Company that sums it up month by month So does anyone have any predictions for […]
Apocalypse Crackers! [Podcast #52]
Brought to you by Blacknight it’s the technology.ie podcast, episode 52 for December 20th 2012, with Michele Neylon and Conn Ó Muíneacháin. We were on a break – and now we’re back – just in time for the apocalypse 🙂 Michele has an iPad Mini and he’s seenThe Hobbit at High Frame Rate IMAX 3D = amazing 🙂 WCIT – […]
Twitter vs Instagram – The Battle Continues
Instagram and Twitter seems to be locked in a battle centring around photos.. or the display of them on social networks. Instagram launched web profiles for its users in the not too distant past and most recently disabled “Twitter Card” support, as they seemingly want people to view all the photos directly on the Instagram […]
Instagram Launches “Badges” For Business Users
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 […]
Sick Of Politics? Remove Them From Your Streams Easily
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 […]
Natural Disaster? Silly Photos To The Rescue
With hurricane Sandy wreaking havoc along the eastern seaboard of the United States both traditional and social media has been swamped with coverage of the situation in New York and other cities. While nobody is making “light” of the seriousness of the situation it’s 2012, so, naturally, there’s been a LOT of funny and fake […]
Explaining Social Media – With Coffee!
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 […]