One of the issues for business users of Google’s social network, Google+, was the lack of support for 3rd party software tools and services to help business (and users) manage their updates. Within the last couple of days Google has announced that their API for Google+ is being opened up: More third party tools to […]
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UK Advertising Watchdog Bans Twitter Ad Campaign
The UK’s advertising watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), has banned a twitter campaign from Nike. The complaint centred around tweets from footballers Wayne Rooney and Jack Wilshere. The ASA understood that, as part of their sponsorship deal with Nike, the footballers were required to take part in marketing activities and that both were asked […]
Memolane
Conn and I talked about Memolane on the podcast this week Here’s their video explaining what the service does: [youtube]http://youtu.be/2MMiMTN9swY[/youtube]
Facebook To Buy Instagram For One Billion Dollars
News emerged last night that social media giant Facebook was to acquire Instagram. What made the story particularly newsworthy was the amount of money involved – $1 billion So how is Instagram worth $1 billion? I don’t know, but as several people pointed out last night, there will be plenty of articles to help us […]