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Signing off

As we preach to our clients when we talk to them about social media, it’s all about the conversation and the etiquette of the conversation. Sometimes you say good bye formally and sometimes you just stop.
As we’ve got our noses to the ground at the moment focusing on introducing new features for […]

The debate continues…

Bebo, Facebook, MySpace – which is the most popular in the UK?
Is it true that Britons have become more and more hooked on Bebo? Hitwise reveals that “Bebo overtakes eBay as the most searched for brand in the UK and takes #1 spot among social networks in May” Bebo also overtakes MySpace in the number […]

MySpace strengthens its hand against YouTube

Yesterday MySpace launched MySpaceTV, an enhanced version of the old MySpace Video. MySpaceTV is an independent website hosted on www.MySpaceTV.com and will not only be open to MySpace members but also to people without accounts. MySpaceTV will make it easier for members to integrate video content to their MySpace profiles. The service will, opposed to […]

Finally Adwords becomes more transparent

This week Google has finally launched “Placement Performance Report”, a new feature which will make it easier for advertisers to measure the ROI on Adwords Campaigns. When you run Adwords you can choose to advertise in the Google content network and/or on the Google search engine. Before now, it wasn’t possible to know on which […]

Facetime for companies

Facebook is trying to step up and strengthen its position by launching a new platform. It enables anybody to create an application that can be used on Facebook. In other words, Facebook is going to open up its website to corporations and organizations and this is a part of its new business strategy. More than […]

YouTube addiction

YouTube has launched a new feature for their embedded YouTube players around the web. Click on the menu button and swipe the pointer over the player and mini thumbnails of related clips will appear. This is a nice extra feature which will increase peoples’ hours spent watching all those crazy clips out there!

Call anyone anywhere even though you only have their email address

Welcome to Jangl. They are providing this telephone linking service.
Billed as the way of talking to someone without ever having to reveal your actual number. Instead of meeting on line via chat ala msn, you can go back to the old fashioned chat over the phone! Let’s see how many dating sites […]

Who is among us? a new widget for you to use!

Have you come across whos.amung.us yet?
This nifty little (literally) widget allows you to see who is looking at which page NOW on your site! The home page gives you the code to add into your site html or for a social network.

‘njoy!

Stirring up bloggers

Friends of the pop queen Lily Allen have rushed to her rescue at her profile page on the MySpace site. Lily posted a blog complaining that she feels “fat and ugly”. Her fans reacted prompty telling her to get real! This is pure UGC - the ultimate - where people can […]

Can UGC add value to a brand on line experience?

UGC = User Generated Content (not the cinema chain…) is coming under a lot of scrutiny - as the obvious and easy answers - see the You Generated Ads our sister company iConcertina recently wrote - indicate that the medium provides consumers easier access for negative feedback and bad publicity. But this […]