Daily Archives: 26 July, 2010

Will Yahoo!’s new Nectar toolbar work?

Last week we saw Yahoo! announce that they are making a Nectar themed toolbar available for users to download.  Once installed to their browser, users will be able to earn one point for every two searches, capped at 50 points per month.

yahoo! nectar toolbar

Their aims are clear: increase consumer spend through nectar partners and encourage more users to search via Yahoo! The question being how successful will they be in achieving these goals – the first seems pretty feasible,  I’m not too sure about the second though…..

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Is Wikileaks a website with an agenda? And the rise of data journalism

Interesting post on the Daily Telegraph regarding the Wikileaks Afghanistan logs and the huge scoop granted to The Guardian, The New York Times and the German weekly Der Spiegel. Read More »

How to tweet and link your way to your dream job

Unfortunately in the wonderful world of the digital age it is simply not enough anymore to do blanket CV mail outs to potential employers, on the off chance that they have a job going. Employers are utilising the digital landscape in order to raise their profiles and they expect their prospective employees to do the same. So if you don’t know your tweets from your links then here are some top tips to help you find a job via social networking. Read More »

Flipboard points the way forward for social media

One application created such a storm when it hit Apple’s iPad last week that you could easily have missed the news that the BBC have finally released apps for the iPhone and iPad. So what app managed to create such a storm that even those without iPads were talking about it? Read More »