Television and newspaper reports make ‘S ocial Media ‘ and ‘ Social Networking ‘ buzz words sound like something that’s arrived on the scene in the past couple of years – but at least the basics pre-date the existence of the internet itself. Early BBS (Bulletin Board Systems) existed before anyone had...
Readers of my US blog, AdScam , where informed yesterday that I have given up on Twitter. Why? Because in the last few days, I have had dozens of emails from very pissed off people asking why I am bombarding them with shitty emails flogging everything from insurance to condoms. Obviously someone has...
A couple of reports around today on the BBC's social media plans saying that as soon as this weekend it will begin adding applications to support its most popular shows. Broadband TV News says that the likes of 'Strictly Come Dancing' will get the social media treatment first and that the...
Did you happen to read the amazing interview in Monday’s Wall Street Journal with Jeff Horing, co-founder of Insight Venture Partners, a New York private-equity firm that was the lead investor in Twitter’s third and latest fund-raising round? These are the geezers who just pumped in $100 million in funding...
Following on from Friday's post on Labour's Twitter lead , research says that Gordon Brown has a lot of ground to make up with Britain's 30m online social network users as he looks to make his keynote speech at the Labour Party conference this week. Of course, his social media reputation...
Facebook has passed a number of milestones this year and as it passes the 300m users mark there doesn't seem to be much stopping it or much competition in its rear view mirror. Adding 50m users in two months is really something. Earlier this year it became the fourth biggest website on the planet...
I know the job scene in the ad biz is pretty bad over there, over here it’s desperate. And with the news out of the holding companies of their continuing drastic losses of income and declining profits, you know it’s only going to get worse. Particularly when the magic answer to all their problems is...
In case you hadn’t realized it, I am a multi-tasking, uber-achieving prince of the blogosphere… Meaning that apart from writing this occasional blog for BrandRepublic, I also write a US blog, and manage to bore the *** out of people with various articles and books. The rest of the time I drink, smoke...
This is just one of the interesting statistics held in the recent report, Inside Twitter by Sysomos , which goes into some serious detail about this most loved and hated darling of the social media set. There are more women twitters than men, 50% of twitterers have less than 6 followers, and Tuesday...
This is just one of the interesting statistics held in the recent report, Inside Twitter by Sysomos , which goes into some serious detail about this most loved and hated darling of the social media set. There are more women twitters than men, 50% of twitterers have less than 6 followers, and Tuesday...
