The ad agency world is not shining when it comes to using social media to market itself, according to new research, but is pretty good at setting things up blogs and Twitter accounts and then infrequently updating them. Overall, the **research from search consultants RSW/US found that very few agencies...
On its blog today LinkedIn has announced a partnership with Twitter. Much needed I'd say and particularly for LinkedIn, which I think desperately needed a real-time web shot in the arm. As Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder says in this little video with Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn (they describe...
I just got an email from the fabulous Guy Phillipson at the IAB which had a side bar that looked like this: You'd have to be a woolly mammoth buried under ten feet of ice for the past 10,000 years NOT to have heard of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or YouTube! But for every few people who have acknowledged...
Facebook is waking up to the Twitter threat. Yes it’s a threat and the two are going to clash. Having proved it is no flash in the pan, Twitter is going to eat into the social networking site's traffic and Facebook is doing something about it. Reports on a presentation that took place yesterday are...
One of Twitter's new backers has been explaining what he sees as the future for the micro blogging service. Todd Chaffee, from Institutional Venture Partners and one of Twitter's new backers , told Ad Age that there is huge potential growth in Twitter and that growth is all about search. He said...
And why not? Twitter is a great service that has set the web and media alight with chatter. Businesses find it very useful and to me that seems like a clear sign that Twitter should benefit from some of that and start to pull in some revenues. Since Twitter launched in 2006 it has been searching for...
The New York Times calls it boring by design. It isn't far wrong, but today LinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals, seems to have come of age after being valued at $1bn. It has never had the attention of Facebook, MySpace or even Bebo (which was sold for $850m to AOL, less than LinkedIn...
