Last month we reported that a study commissioned by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) revealed that more than half of the UK people interviewed wouldn’t know how to report online child sexual abuse if they stumbled across it by accident. This month however, the news is slightly more encouraging. Thanks to the reports which are [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Apparently it’s high season for company Twitter hijacking. Burger King and Jeep both suffered high profile attacks. Scottish Power customers received phishing emails and French news agency APF’s photo feed account was recently taken over by pro-Syrian lobbyists. It goes without saying that speed is of the essence to defend your brand against a similar [...]
Without fanfare, it seems that Facebook may now be allowing calls to action on Facebook Page cover images. Take a look at the Pages Terms. Up until today, the 17th December version of the platform prevented any kind of marketing in the cover image, and also – as with any promoted image – text was not allowed [...]
The SimCity series of games began in 1989, originally released on the Amiga, Atari ST, and DOS-based PCs. Between ’89 and 2003 three sequels followed, along with countless spin-offs and adaptations. Notably, SimCity was the origin of The Sims; the fifth highest selling game franchise of all time. The decision was made, by publisher Electronic Arts [...]
A study commissioned by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) reveals that online child sexual abuse content is the main concern for UK web users, but more than half wouldn’t know how to report it if they stumbled across it by accident. IWF CEO Susie Hargreaves explains: “There is clear public concern over the availability of [...]
We protested. We petitioned. But Google was dead to our pleas, and yesterday announced that Google Reader, one of the world’s most popular RSS readers, will be shutting down on July 1, 2013. The Google Reader blog stated: “We know Reader has a devoted following who will be very sad to see it go. We’re [...]
“Goodbye clutter, hello beautiful new stories,” Facebook said last week when it showed off its redesigned news feed. But none of those beautiful new stories will be from branded pages. This appears to be the industry’s consensus response, after the recently announced changes to the Facebook timeline. The changes will put a user’s posts and life [...]