Instagram is a rapidly growing social network built around sharing photographs. A massive 100 million people use Instagram every month; a growth of 500% since the platform’s $1billion acquisition by Facebook in April 2012. The service exists primarily as a smartphone app. The app, for iOS and Android, allows users to take photos from within [...]
Twitter has launched two-step authentication to much fanfare, but the jury is out on how effective it will be. In April a group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) hacked the Associated Press Twitter account. The subsequent spoof messages caused a stock market blip, giving pause for thought on just how easy it can [...]
After my recent blog post covering the rise of Google Plus and the reasons why it is pulling in more active users than Twitter, I received a number of questions around Google Authorship. Here is a complete guide on how to set it up and have your name and photo showing in Google Search next [...]
Google Plus, the burgeoning social network from search giant Google, recently overtook Twitter in the list of social platforms with the most active users, despite the latter officially winning the crown for fastest growing network for 2012. Supposedly, 25% of the global internet population actively use Google Plus in one way or another, compared [...]
Although changes were very necessary, the recent FTC amendments to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) have sparked some confusion, and raised concerns that they will diminish innovative and educational content production. To quickly review: COPPA restricts the online collection of personal information from children under 13 years of age in advance of parent consent. It [...]
Maybe this is the ultimate Valentine’s online card delivery? You get a message, you click on it – but now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t. A few seconds after viewing, pouf! it’s gone. Ah, the ephemeral nature of love … There may still be a few souls out here who haven’t heard of SnapChat, or its Facebook imitator, Poke. If [...]
I’ve got to confess two things: 1. I spend a lot of time on Twitter (to be fair, I’m paid to), and 2. I do like a nice, new, easy-to-use toy. So I’m pretty happy about Vine, the new (free) video-sharing app for iPhone / iPod touch which enables users to share clips up to [...]
It’s that time of year again when we make bold claims and statements: that we will get fit, lose weight and hit our deadlines on time. Well here is one resolution that you should keep: update your LinkedIn profile. LinkedIn recently rolled out a new look to its 175 million members which should make it [...]
With Google+, people can endorse and share your content by ‘+1′ing it. Here’s how to make the most of this by connecting your website, Adwords, YouTub channel and Google+ page. What is a ‘+1′? With Google+, people who see your brand’s content – be it your website, a blog post, a video, your Adwords [...]
Facebook Groups have been around for quite a while, so it doesn’t really come as any surprise that Google launched Google+Communities yesterday. Dropping into their blog post the news that the network is now up to 500 million users (135 million of whom are considered active, i.e. actually doing stuff), Google outlined its vision for [...]