If you wanted more confirmation that Foursquare is becoming quite unstoppable came with news that the governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger is using the social media service highlighting how it can be used for  business as well as pleasure. Read More »

Twitter is returning to its roots with the acquisition of text-messaging company Cloudhopper, which will allow more users, especially those in developing countries without web-enabled smartphones, to begin tweeting. Read More »

An Islamic cleric’s suggestion that “immodestly” dressed women are the cause of earthquakes has resulted in nearly 200,000 women around the globe pledging to show their cleavage today to prove him wrong, in an online phenomenon aptly named “Boobquake”. Read More »

Good news for Twitter lovers everywhere who will no longer have to dig out their phone to check for updates they will simply be able to glance at their wrist.

Tokyo Flash, the procurer’s of futuristic binary watches, have unveiled one of their latest concepts on their blog. Cleverly codenamed ‘Instant Trend’ their latest idea is to incorporate news feeds direct to your watch making it ideal for real time updates from services like Twitter.
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Last night’s debate saw the reputation of Gordon Brown rise significantly, while David Cameron remained static, according to analysis by social media specialist Yomego.

Yomego has been analysing the reputations of each leader through the first two leaders debates, and the reputational shifts are charted in the graph below, as are the social media reputation scores of each leader. Read More »

The New York Times continues to offer scant details regarding its  “metered model” paywall, but has said a paid for Apple iPad app is on the way, which is due to debut in January when it is also expected the paper will launch its paid content plans.

During Q1 earnings call this week, CEO Janet Robinson said the company is looking into how and what content will be metered, and how the paywall will interact with search engines. Read More »

Facebook and Microsoft are reported to have joined the battle for Foursquare, but questions remain as to whether CEO Dennis Crowley is ready to sell up or not.

Earlier this month it was revealed that recently courted by Yahoo! was considering a $100mbid for red-hot Foursquare, which passed the one million user mark today. Read More »

Numbers fell online for the second leaders debate with tweets dropping by more than 22% and almost 8,000 less people taking part, but slightly predictable given that the debate was only on digital TV, which was always going to hit numbers. Read More »

Hard to believe it hasn’t been with us longer, but YouTube’s first ever video was uploaded on April 23rd 2005.

The funny thing is that it was such an innocuous video that gave birth to a global phenomenon. It features founder Jawed Karim at San Diego Zoo and it is still there now, take a look. Read More »

Interesting numbers from web analytics firm StatCounter ranking the social web saying that while Facebook leads the way in social media as the primary source of traffic to global websites Twitter is now third after StumbleUpon

The StatCounter report said that Facebook generates 48% of social media traffic followed by StumbleUpon with almost 25% and Twitter with around 20%. Read More »