We already knew that Facebook execs weren’t happy about the forth coming movie about the founding of the social network site and the latest news is that a “wild scene” featuring drugs will not be cut.  Read More »

Time magazine has named its top 50 websites for 2010 and included Gowalla and Tumblr in its top five social media sites. With the Guardian and Tina Brown’s Daily Beast also making the wider list. Read More »

This is pretty cool. Google has added the ability to make calls directly to people’s phones from your Gmail account and looks to be going after the market currently dominated by Skype. Read More »

Facebook could now be worth as much as $33.7bn according to valuations based on secondary market transactions. Such a figure sees it surpass Yahoo! and Ebay shows how far a few friends have come. Read More »

If there is one thing that hasn’t changed in the past ten years of mobile, it’s the pace of change in the industry. I have always found it hard to keep up. Working with the channel day-in day-out doesn’t necessarily mean it gets any easier. Read More »

The advent of social media has seen more and more of us expose our personal lives online.  From photos on Facebook and videos on YouTube, to updates on Twitter and Foursquare check-ins, our personal lives are very much in the public domain – but have you ever stopped to consider the effects of your social footprint during the recruitment process? Read More »

I’ve been reading a new book called Smart Swarms recently. It’s one of those Tipping Point / Wikinomics types pop social science books, which doles out huge hunks of insightful wisdom. In Smart Swarm’s case, the book looks at how humans can learn from the collective intelligent behaviour of animals – in particular, how we can learn from animals (like bees and termites) swarm behaviour: i.e. how they manage to self-organise in such huge numbers. Read More »

Twitter has hired Adam Bain with the grand title of president global revenue as Twitter shows that it is getting really serious about making money. Bain joins from Fox Interactive Media where he was president of the Audience Network part of Fox Interactive Media. Read More »

StumbleUpon ranks No. 126 on the 2010 Inc. 500 [Press release]

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24 /PRNewswire/ — Inc. Magazine today ranked StumbleUpon, a discovery engine, number 126 on its 29th annual Inc. 500, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. With this honor, StumbleUpon, which has a three-year sales growth rate of 2,035%, joins companies such as Microsoft, Zappos, Intuit, GoDaddy, Under Armour, Jamba Juice, American Apparel, Oracle, and hundreds of other highly successful organizations that have at one point all been recognized as members of the Inc. 500.

In addition to placing 126th in the overall national list, StumbleUpon was named the 5th fastest growing private company in the Media subcategory and placed 12th in the San Francisco-based companies subcategory.

StumbleUpon, which became an independent company in April 2009 after a management-led buyback from eBay, has achieved a number of major milestones in 2010 alone, including surpassing 10 million registered users, increasing views of its dynamic site badges – which enable users to rate and share content across the web – more than eight-fold to over a billion views per month, and growing its advertiser base by 20%. StumbleUpon is one of the top social media traffic referrers in the world, according to the web statistics firm StatCounter, and drives more than half of all social bookmarking referral traffic worldwide, according to the web analytics company Woopra.

In addition, StumbleUpon continues to bring the content discovery experience to more users, whether they’re on the web or their mobile devices. In April, StumbleUpon released an iPad application, followed last week by applications for iPhone and Android devices – both of which have been adding thousands of new users per day.

About StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon is a discovery engine that finds the best of the web, recommended for each user. With over 15 billion stumbles to date, nearly 11 million users and 600 million personalized recommendations per month, StumbleUpon is the leading way to discover great, peer-sourced content on the Internet. Over 50,000 unique URLs are indexed through StumbleUpon each day. More than 40,000 advertisers are using StumbleUpon to promote their products and services. Founded in 2001, StumbleUpon is based in San Francisco and backed by some of the same investors behind Google and Facebook. For more information, visit www.StumbleUpon.com.

PR and social media agency Umpf has compiled what it is calling a Social Media Campaign Hall of Fame. It  includes 54 social media campaigns from brands including Coca-Cola, Comparethemarket, Old Spice, Ford, Nike and Nokia and…the Pentagon (Darpa) among others. Question is are these the best? Read More »