“You’re Blacknight? You host my site!” “Cool! Tell me about your site!” Rory McEvoy was chatting on twitter one night when he decided to test his followers’ general knowledge. The response surprised him, and gave him an idea. Now Rory runs Twiznight every Monday at 9:30pm. Each quiz is sponsored and all the tweets feature […]
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Social Media Risk
While you might want to share pictures of your coffee on various social media networks are there risks associated with your actions? Check out this graphic from Trend Micro: What do you think?
Twitter Is Filing For An IPO
Twitter is filing for an IPO https://twitter.com/twitter/status/378261932148416512 You can expect the tech’ news sites to explode with this one over the next few hours! You can also expect to see lots of people drawing parallels between Facebook’s IPO and Twitter’s. Expect to see plenty of analysis over the next few days. Expect to see predictions […]
Jimmy Kimmel Trolls The Internet
American talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has revealed that he was behind a YouTube video that went viral and that the entire thing was a setup. The “twerking” video, which has been viewed over 9 million times, was released on YouTube without any press releases or any other type of promotion. Here’s the original video: […]
Designing For Social Media? You Need This!
Every social network out there has different options. You can upload headers, avatars, cover images, background images etc., etc., But each social network uses different dimensions and sets different limits. And trying to find all the information you need to design and resize a brand’s images to fit in properly on all the social networks […]
Photobomb With Grumpy Cat
Grumpy Cat is an internet sensation and now you can bring her to your mobile device with GrumpyBomb. The app, which is 100% free, lets you easily add Grumpy Cat to your existing iPhone photos, or take a new one and add her and an appropriate caption. The icons are cartoonish and playful and […]
Exploring Twitter’s Native Analytics
When Twitter started “wrapping” all hyperlinks using the t.co URL shortener they emphasised that the service would help the platform’s security. But, as they admitted, it was also going to give them access to metrics on how users’ interact with tweets. You can now access a lot of this data for your account via Twitter […]
Facebook updates in real life
I think it’s safe to say if you use Facebook you’ll have seen big changes hit your account every few months and at times you’re left wondering why you bother to continue ( probably cus all your friends are using it ) This video sums up pretty nicely how it is in real life 🙂 […]
Big Brother Is Watching
Privacy is and will continue to be a hot topic in tech circles over the coming years. With more and more of our daily lives being managed online we’re going to be interacting with more and more companies that will want to track us (or not .. ) This graphic (via) focusses on some of […]
Facebook finally gets #hashtags
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 […]