Virgin Atlantic have announced a Travel social network as part of their 25 th Birthday, aimed at the ‘inspirational' travel market. Much like the BA Metrotwin , which was specifically created for the to London-New York traveller, the vtraveller is aimed at frequent flyers. Now I am not about to go...
Twitter has been quietly promoting a new service for the business class , known as ExecTweets, a sort of Twitter/LinkedIn mash-up created by conversational ad agency Federated Media, with a healthy dose of sponsorship from Microsoft. ExecTweets itself doesn't seem to be anything worth Tweeting-home...
Heads have been rolling over Google CEO Eric Schmidt's recent Twitter snub, when he called the ridiculously popular (too early, too late to call it a phenomenon?) microblogging service a "poor man's email", one he doesn't "get". Personally, I didn't think too much...
I'm still trying to figure out the point of GakiAttack , a Twitter application that allows followers to attack one another in a variety of exotic Japanese-branded methods... but I fear that would be looking too far into its inane simplicity. According to its website, Gaki is: "not only Japanese...
Last January, I could hardly imagine myself uttering the word "twitter" without a hint sardonic irony, or even a little resentment. However, come 2009, it's become such an important part of my daily lexicon that the actual meaning of the word is beginning to fade away in a blissful fog...
The self-professed "Motrin Moms", a small group of incensed Twitter users who barked and yelped loud enough to quell an entire Johnson & Johnson Motrin television and print campaign, must be a little unsettling for marketers. The campaign, which has been around for a couple of months -...
How do the two US presidential candidates fare on the various social networking websites that take up so much of our valuable time? Glad you asked, luckily the Scottish-based social media company, Yomego has compiled a list: MySpace On its Impact Channel, where young voters can watch the live debates...
