Daily Archives: 5 August, 2010

BRING BACK FITFINDER: Student Social Netflirting isn’t over yet

Ask most students and they’ll admit to having a library crush.  Because the university library is not solely a place of serious study, but a sexually-charged hub of students subtly checking each other out over the screens of their laptops.   From this mix of hormones, procrastination and high-pressure academia the FitFinder emerged. Read More »

Twitter adds another new follower-boosting strategy

Hopefully you’ve recovered from the excitement of discovering that Stephen Fry is on Twitter thanks to the new ‘Who To Follow’ feature (you’ll need to be logged in to Twitter for that link to work) and are ready to absorb news of the next new thing: Twitter Shout Out. Read More »

As MySpace haemorrhages money – can News Corp turn its social networking strategy around?

Ahead of a relaunch of MySpace, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has announced that its Digital Media Group, which houses the social network, haemorrhaged $174m (£109.5m) in the fourth quarter of its 2009 fiscal year, which brought the division’s full-year operating loss to $575m. Read More »

Google ditches Google Wave – is it clearing the way for Google Me?

Drowning not waving

Google Wave we hardly knew you, much less used you or worked out what we were supposed to do with you. No Surprise then that Google announced last night that it was ending development of Google Wave due to, ahem, lack of “adoption”. Read More »