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 […]
If you’re using Spotify you might be sharing a little more information with the social network – and your friends – than you’d like By default Spotify will happily publicise your listening activities, so if you’re not careful you can spam your friends’ Facebook streams with your music.. You can turn this off pretty easily. […]
While practically every media outlet on the planet is churning out stories about the US Presidential “showdown” we thought we’d have a quick look at what Facebook are doing. On their “stories” site they’re collating anonymous data about US voters. It’s pretty cool to watch, though it won’t give you any indication of which way […]
A lot of us use social media, but maybe some of us are using the social sphere more for interactions than real life.. The infographic below, from Confused.com, goes into some of this – it’s quite amusing, but it also has a very strong ring of truth!
If you work in IT you probably have an affinity for coffee.. if you don’t, then your colleagues probably do .. So using coffee to explain social media isn’t really that surprising .. Which social network should be used for what is always one of those questions .. And now you have a coffee analogy […]
MetaCert have launched their new child safe browser for iPad – Olly. The browser leverages MetaCert‘s index of adult and other non-child safe content. Once installed you can easily tweak the browser’s settings to either block or allow various social networks and different types of content: You can also choose which specific sites you want […]
The guys over at Get Satisfaction have posted an interesting infographic on some of the shortcomings of Facebook for user engagement
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.
Here’s a short video from Facebook showing off the new Facebook for iPhone
One of the issues that Facebook has been grappling with is two fold. On the one hand their mobile traffic has been growing, in line with many popular sites. But while the traffic on mobile devices and overall mobile usage might be on the increase the social network has been having issues turning that usage […]
