Some interesting Twitter data from Hitwise that reveals what a boon the service is for media content sites in terms of driving traffic with newspapers in particular coming out winners. Hitwise says that Twitter traffic has increased 22-fold over the last 12 months and a result of that increase is a leap...
On Wired.com, Andrew Exum is wondering all about Iran and the explosive use of social media to organise, agitate and protest in Iran. He's wondering how real it all is? And if it is the technological enabled few rather than the digitally deprived masses. He wrote: "Are we simply finding common...
Last night, as a guest speaker at The Future Laboratory's idea networking event, I had the opportunity to chat about who is doing what in social media, and the pros and cons of big brand's moves into the social media space. Love it or hate it, with Facebook fast approaching 200 million users...
You had better stop reading this as blogging is dead. Seriously, I just read it. Some wag at Wired says there is too much social media, and blogging is, like, so 2004. What rubbish. According to Paul Boutin, who writes for Silicon Valley gossip site Valleywag, writing a blog today isn't the bright...