INEX, the Irish Internet Exchange, where Irish ISPs and content providers “peer” has joined Twitter. While an organisation’s presence on the social media network is hardly newsworthy in itself, the information that they *might* share with Irish internet users is potentially “geektastic” For example: Quietly, while no one was looking, we peered over 45Gbps of […]
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Breaking: Facebook Breaks One Billion Active User Mark
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. […]
App.net Reduces Price and Adds Monthly Membership
App.net, which Conn and I have discussed a couple of times, announced last night that it was reducing its annual membership fees as well as introducing a new monthly subscription fee. According to a post on the company’s blog, the original pricing was based on them having 10 thousand users. They now have over 20 […]
Guiness Release New Ad Via Facebook
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]
Social Media: Facebook Wants You Before You’re Born
Social network behemoth Facebook is constantly adding new tweaks and features. Some of them make users happy, others upset them. But in a recent move the social media giant has decided to go after a whole new generation of users, or more precisely their mothers. So now you’ll be able to share the good news […]
Facebook Turns On Timeline For All Business Pages
Facebook has turned on the timeline for all business pages. If you haven’t made some changes to how your Facebook page is setup it might look a little odd or plain ugly! Hubspot have released a pretty good info-graphic explaining it in simple terms