YouTube announced earlier today that they’re finally going to fix video view counts. If you watch videos that are being shared widely across social networks up until today the counter always seemed to be stuck. YouTube would default to displaying “301+” on videos which were getting a lot of traffic. Why? Because a lot of […]
Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook in 2004. That was a different world, and Facebook has played a part in shaping the world of today. But imagine if ‘The Facebook’ (as Zuckerberg originally planned to call it) had been launched in 1995. [youtube]http://youtu.be/jYd_5aggzd4[/youtube] Too young to remember 1995? It’s a parody of this real commercial for AOL. Related articles Mark […]
House for Rudolph is a charity meme for kids to raise funds for and awareness of homelessness in Ireland. Its organiser Dermot Casey is our guest on today’s podcast. Click on the player above to listen to the show, or download it here: 13:40; 8MB; MP3. House for Rudolph was inspired by the viral success of The […]
There’s a new social network in town, one which promises not to advertise to you or to sell your data. It’s called Ello, and it’s still very much “under construction“. So, do we need another social network? Well apparently 40,000 people are signing up per hour: and it’s still invitation-only. Much of Ello’s initial growth has […]
Antonie Geerts pointed me to this video last night which makes an astonishing, but not very surprising, assertion about Facebook advertising. We already know that buying fake likes is counterproductive, because Facebook’s algorithm penalises pages and users who have a lot of likes from followers who do not engage with them. Veritasium’s Derek Muller gives an overview of […]
Google announced earlier today that it will be closing down Orkut in September. Orkut was Google’s first foray into social networks, long before social networks were really called social networks. The site was originally launched back in 2004 and over time it gained popularity in Brazil more than in English speaking countries. I’ll be honest […]
Update: If you’re using Amazon.co.uk, the hashtag is #AmazonBasket, i.e. I just bought: 'Billionaire Boy' by David Walliams Reply w/ #AmazonBasket to add this via @KindleUK http://t.co/r6pHQK3W1J — Conn Ó Muíneacháin (@conn) May 6, 2014 As if it wasn’t already easy enough to impulse-buy from Amazon, they’ve gone and added a new feature using Twitter. […]
**** Warning: this post contains images depicting violence **** Inviting the public to share their experiences of your organisation can be a very effective use of social media. But the difference between social media and PR is that you don’t control the conversation, as the New York Police Department discovered when they encouraged people to tag photos using […]
Nominations opened today for the 2014 edition of the Social Media Awards. As in previous years nominations are 100% free. This year’s categories are: Facebook categories: Facebook Page for a Business (Non Campaign) Facebook Page for a Non-Profit/Organisation Facebook Page for a Business (owner managed) Integrated Facebook Campaign: Page, App, Ads Twitter categories Best Business […]
Yahoo! has acquired Vizify. The announcement was made earlier today. Vizify, if you aren’t familiar with it, offered a simple visual tool to create a virtual bio or CV based on content you shared with social networks. Here’s a screenshot of how mine looks (or looked): The service allowed you to connect social networks such […]
