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 [...]
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” Oscar Wilde’s take on the pursuit of ostentatious self-promotion pre-empted the advertising and PR industries pretty accurately. Over a century later it’s hard to imagine a world more obsessed with checking how many likes, retweets [...]
You’ll have heard by now that the Facebook threaded comments feature recently started rolling out, allowing users to reply to specific comments in a thread. However, we would advise caution before deciding to opt in. How does ‘Facebook threaded comments’ work? Each comment on an original story or post will contain a “reply” button beneath it, [...]
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 [...]
Back in the mists of time (the early nineties I think), concerned parents and social commentators used to talk all the time about how we were raising a generation of vegetables, glued to the TV, not conversing, not interacting with the world, but distilling all they knew of life and love from Neighbours. I bet [...]
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 [...]
I’m starting to find Google+ communities that I really want to join now – but, as predicted, it’s getting a bit cluttered in there. Google have just helped improve the situation a little though. As well as being able to adjust the volume on your circles , you can now choose whether or not to [...]
So that’s what he was building in there. Yesterday came the much-hyped Facebook announcement: a new live search engine within the site: ‘Facebook graph search’. The skinny: A search bar will allow users to find what their friends have liked or recommended, as well as photos of friends. The search functions in three main areas: Photos, [...]
Let’s just suppose for a minute that you didn’t get your Christmas wish this year and you haven’t managed to outsource your community management for the Christmas period. With a user group who have lots of time on their hands, brand new devices to access the internet and possibly – just maybe – a drop [...]