A few weeks back I wrote a blog post that detailed a few tips surrounding building and maintaining pages for brand and companies within Facebook, a post motivated by a blog post I saw on AppStorm. In the meantime the guys from eConsultancy have also written a detailed blog post surrounding some brilliant examples of Facebook pages that have been created by brands. But its not just these two though, there are hundreds of blog posts that cover the same topic – but there’s a problem - all of them predominantly cover either pages that have been created for US or Global markets. Read More »

According to the 2010 Forbes 400 list of the Wealthiest Americans, five years after founding Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg is now worth more than Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs. He is worth $6.9bn having added $4.9bn to his fortune in the last year.

That’s incredible for a 26-year old if not mind boggling. Forbes says the leap in wealth has taken him to number 35 on the Forbes 400. Read More »

The average app user in the US has 18 apps with teens and twenty nothings adding the most. No surprise that games are top for downloads, followed by news and map based apps.  Those categories outstrip social networking.

Interesting to see the split between men and women is not that great and it is apparently closing as more women get smartphones. What’s also noteworthy here is that Twitter not Facebook has the highest daily use about 18-24 yearolds – 75% compared to 57% fpr Facebook, but that then reverses in the nex group 25- 34 where Facebook leaders Twitter.  Read More »

United Business Media has put the premium content of its Building Design website behind a paywall, asking £69 from a year for access, and sparked a largely (and maybe not surprising) negative reaction from readers.

In a pessimistic blog post from editor Amanda Baillieu she explains that while breaking news, blogs and video content will remain free, comment, analysis and building studies and technical studies will go behind the paywall and admits readers might go elsewhere. Read More »

Google’s YouTube is partnering with Arabic-language television network, Al Arabiya, to launch “Iraq Looks Forward”. It’s a series of interviews on YouTube in which Iraqi leaders answer your questions about the future of the country.

It is all very worthy, and public information film type stuff, and similar to previous direct-to-candidate experiments.

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Yesterday morning Security experts Sophos put out a message saying that twitter was being exploited by users that had figured out how to use a flaw to allow messages to pop-up and other sites to open in your browser window. In some cases users were redirected to a hardcore porn site in Japan. Read More »

One of the clients I current work with is a big fan of running competitions. Competitions can be great and if you have a high-value prize then even better. Get the marketing team together, think of something interactive and fun, post the idea and wait for the entries to come flooding in. That’s it right? Well actually no, not really. Read More »

I really quite enjoy using Foursquare. It’s still a pleasant little social networking site (at least in the UK), where the LOLers and bad spellers are yet to show up and I’m mostly friends with people that I’m, well, actually friends with.

So I’m looking forward to these new features that Foursquare is rolling out, as soon as I’ve updated the app on my iPhone (Android and Blackberry sers will have to wait a tiny bit longer). Read More »