Vine Web Profiles Now Live
Twitter has launched "Vine on the Web", which means that if you reserved your custom URL / profile it's now live. The profile page of a user is quite similar to what we're used to seeing
Skype’s Blog Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
Skype's corporate blog has been hacked. See screenshot below: Apparently their social media presences on Twitter and Facebook were also compromised, though they have since regained control of them. More details here
Reserve Your Profile URL on Vine
Vine is now offering users the option to reserve their profile URL. So you'll soon be able to direct people to a simple web address such as http://vine.co/username instead of the current quite random looking one.
Racism & Stupidity – How Not to Do Corporate PR
Justine Sacco used to be the Corporate Communications Director for IAC - the company that owns web content companies such as College Humor, About.com, Match.com, Dictionary.com and The Daily Beast. Now she's a textbook case study
2013 was All About Social
Here's a very quick video by Social Bakers summing up the social media trends of 2013. It points to the success of Facebook and Twitter in 2013, and adds that Google has become "the go-to social
Gary Vaynerchuk at LeWeb
Gary Vaynerchuk is always interesting and entertaining to watch so here'a video of him from Le Web Q & A session from LeWeb with Loic Le Meur: http://youtu.be/en3dIOtEzUU Enjoy!