Twitter is as well known as its Facebook but trails considerably in terms of usage.
Edison Research found that awareness of Twitter has exploded from 5% of Americans in 2008 to 87% in 2010. By comparison, Facebook’s awareness is at 88%. Read More
“Fank you, fank you!” Nick Clegg might say. If he was a feline. In the midst of all the negativity and mud flinging in the political press, there’s a small community of people satirising the general election with a basic Photoshop skills and deliberately misspelled captions (maybe that should be ‘capshunzz?’). Read More
At the beginning of the campaign we weren’t really sure, but by last night it was blindly clear.
Twitter, and social media generally, in this election campaign do not matter – not in the wider scheme of things at least. Read More
Brilliant! You find something that adds to iPad’s cool credentials and there isn’t a news release to be found, just this teaser clip to make you yearn for an iPad.
It looks like app developers are really starting to ramp up what they can do with the iPad. A lot of apps I’ve played with allow little room for the iPad’s tilt sensors, apart from basic screen rotation, but it’s starting to trickle through as game developers have a go. Read More
There were a lot of people asking why computer manufacturer HP would bother to pay a chunky $1.2bn for the struggling mobile company Palm beating HTC and Lenovo to the punch. It couldn’t possibly be the phones and it isn’t: its the operating system and where that can take HP. That’s the bit of Palm that has some real legs.
Over 50,000 websites have adopted Facebook’s new social plugins, which include the soon to be ubiquitous “Like” button, one week after the website announced its ambitions to become the nexus of the web, via its Open Graph API.
Last week Facebook launched social plugins with just 75 partners, including CNN and the New York Times, which allow users to “like” or “recommend” content across the web without having to sign into their accounts. Read More
Ahead of the third and final leader debate the Labour Party urging supporters to donate their avatars on Twitter and Facebook and invite their friends to “I’m Voting Labour on May 6″ events.
Tonight Labour is devoting its homepage to aggregating the best of Twitter and Facebook from Labour Ministers, candidates, bloggers, activists and the official Labour feed. Read More
Foursquare cofounder Naveen Selvadurai tweeted about his fashion faux-pas while meeting with Microsoft this week, adding to the speculation that the company is on the verge of selling, or perhaps not.
The Huffington Post is on track to top the New York Times in web traffic this year.
HuffPo had 13m unique users in March, nearing the NYTimes.com traffic in March at 16.6m. HuffPo’s traffic is up 94% over the same period last year, according to Nielsen Online. Read More
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