An historic election and a welcome historic victory for Barack Obama that was called online by some of the big political blogs and news sites before the US TV networks, which having been burned by exit polls in 2000 and 2004 took the cautious route. There's already been an avalanche written about...
There are so many ways to follow the US election tonight, but one proving really popular is Twitter. Twittervotereport.com gives constant updates from across the US while the polls are open including the current length of queues, which has been one eye opening features of this very exciting US election...
More bullets from today's Future of Social Media Conference. Got to say one thing though everyone is talking about Twitter. All the speakers have brought Twitter up. Martin Verdon-Roe, sales director TripAdvisor. He had one piece of very good advice that is worth repeating: participate. If people...
Rohit Bhargava – senior vp, marketing at Ogilvy 360 Digital Influence is the first main speaker today, great speaker and some very good advice for marketers who want to understand social media. He kicks off his presentation by talking about "Why today is different from yesterday". Picture of...
The Barack Obama campaign is an unprecedented advertising and marketing machine that is now running four times as many ads as John McCain. It has also been the most diverse and smart marketing campaign we've ever seen in politics, or elsewhere for that matter, and no surprise that he has been named...
Not everyone loves YouTube. Dotcom billionaire investor Mark Cuban is no fan. He had some very severe words for YouTube and says that anyone who buys it would be a moron. This is clearly going to make the digital executives at companies like News Corporation and Viacom sit up. They had, no doubt, been...
