Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announced this morning that the social media network now has 1 billion active users each month. They had hit the 500 million user mark just two years ago in July 2010 Here’s the full text of the announcement: This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month. […]
Guinness have chosen to release their new TV advert via Facebook Though since the ad *is* on their YouTube channel I’m not sure who they’re kidding into believing it’s an “exclusive” .. The new ad is probably more subtle than most : [youtube]http://youtu.be/URxLYupra5s[/youtube]
This week’s podcast contains offensive language. It’s not safe for work and not suitable for kids (or people of quality and breeding – you know who you are). In our defence … actually – we don’t have a defence. We weren’t even drinking – but speaking of drink, there’s an idea. Being a Kerryman, I […]
The guys over at Get Satisfaction have posted an interesting infographic on some of the shortcomings of Facebook for user engagement
This is a rather “busy” infographic from Luma Partners that show the social media marketing landscape. Via
Intel released this infographic a while back about everything that happens every minute on the internet with some projections of what things will look like in a couple of years time. The statistics are staggering, especially if you’ve been around long enough to remember how primitive the entire thing was 20 years ago (or longer […]
We mentioned Amazon’s election barometer recently. Facebook have teamed up with CNN to launch “Election Insights“. Using Facebook’s “insights” the site displays the volume of activity on the social network related to the various US presidential hopefuls Full announcement here.
It’s the Conn & Michele show again this week! I brought up the Chris Andrews “@brianformerff” twitter story – old news now I know, but I’m seriously impressed by the tech-detective skills of Eddy Carroll who exposed the former TD behind the troll. Twitter’s latest API releaseputs the squeeze on developers, but do end-users really […]
Here’s a short video from Facebook showing off the new Facebook for iPhone
Facebook have launched yet another update to their iPhone and iPad apps. According to Zuckerberg: We just released a new Facebook app for iPhone and iPad and it’s a lot faster. Our team completely rewrote it from the ground up to focus on speed. It’s a big step forward. The updated application is available in […]
