It’s not often that Ireland and the UK are ahead of the US when it comes to “social” features. However in the case of Netflix Irish users have been able to share (or torment) their viewing habits with their social network since the service launched last year. This is now launching in the US and […]
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Nominations Now Open For 2013 Social Media Awards
The 2013 Social Media Awards will take place this May 30th in the Clyde Court Hotel, Dublin. Nominations opened this evening and are open until April 10th – so there’s plenty of time to get your nominations in. This year’s categories cover pretty much all areas of social media: Twitter Facebook blogs video mobile apps […]
Explaining Social Media – With Cats
Cats + social media = winning formula. Source
Pope Memes?
The Pope’s announcement yesterday that he was resigning at the end of the month has led, inevitably, to quite a few amusing images doing the rounds. Here’s a few we liked mostly from Facebook and Twitter. If you know of any others or are the original source please let us know Of course there are […]
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 For Business – 5 Types of Follower You Need
Vocus have produced a graphic showing what they class as the “5 types of social followers your business needs” The 5 classes of follower are: The early adopter The social sharer The born follower The popular powerhouse The basement dwelling hater Not only do they provide 5 simple classifications but they also provide a rationale […]
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 […]
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 […]
Facebook “Law” Explained
Over the last few days you’ll probably have seen lots of your friends posting a completely pointless and quite inane update to their Facebook wall to “protect” themselves. The guys over at College Humor have broken this down in their own unique way and explain the multiple issues with both the concept and the language […]
Infographic: 2 Billion+ Users Online
Google released a very slick graphic to illustrate both the growth of internet usage and how its used. The graphic is part of a campaign they and other entities are involved with to help keep the internet free and open. Learn more here or here