Microsoft has launched something it is calling Street Slide, which has the best aspects of Google Street View and Bing Maps Streetside but allows you to navigate quickly down an entire street dipping in without getting into horrendous digital knots as you try to focus on the one part of the street that you are interested in. Read More
The Google social networking story has moved on with the Wall Street Journal reporting that discussions are being held with games developers to make their games available on the service. Read More
Facebook has launched a useful guide to help media groups and blogs get the best out of Facebook by making their content more social media friendly and more shareable.
A lot of this is about how organisations use Facebook’s “like” button, but other stuff looks at timing, dedicated pages and live streaming. Read More
Interesting to see the different ways the US is responding to the Afghanistan Wikileaks story this week as Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of US joint chiefs of staff, tweets his thoughts. Read More
Social media monitoring is a complete waste of resources. Total waste of money, time and understanding. Yep. You know why? Read More
Not content with a recently re-vamped website, a Twitter account and a YouTube channel, the Royal Family have now created their own Flickr account, complete with at least 600 official photos.
The Family first sprang up on YouTube three years ago, went quiet on the social media front for a bit and then dived head-first into Twitter last year, where followers can be entertained with news and information around Royal exhibitions and ceremonies (and if you were wondering, in a move that’s very diplomatic if not a bit boring – the Royal Family isn’t following anyone). The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh even paid a visit to Google’s UK headquarters in 2008, with the former photographed jabbing hopefully at a computer keyboard with a gloved finger.
Interesting piece on ReadWriteWeb about StumbleUpon which is another of those smaller social media success stories that has been around (founded way back in 2001) and continues to quietly grow, but who exactly uses it? Read More
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.
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…..
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
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
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