Monthly Archives: October 2010

#TwitterTip: Freshen up with a new background for the revamped layout

If you’re like us then your background on Twitter might have gone awry. Never fear Twitter is here with some top tips on how to set it all right and freshen up your Twitter look. Read More »

Social games firm Zynga is valued at $5.51 billion

Zynga, the maker of social networking games Petville, FarmVille and FrontierVille is now said to be valued at a whopping $5.51bn making it more valuable than games giant Electronic Arts, which is a publicly quoted company.

In the Spring the social gaming firm was valued at $4bn. Read More »

How mobile changes user behaviour

Mobile is changing the world. Not only access to websites, but also user behaviour and engagement from brands. At Jobsite, the traffic via mobile devices (actual mobiles & the ipad, excludes other on the go computing devices) now stands at 5% of total visits – an increase of 630% in 18 months and double the traffic we receive from Yahoo & Bing combined.  In a way, this growth is to be expected, but what I find really fascinating are the changes in user behaviour. Read More »

Digg slashes more than a third of its staff

Sad news for Digg fans. Having suffered a bumpy redesign and a fall in its status a refer of social media traffic Digg’s problems are getting worse as it cuts more than 35% of its staff.

In an email to staff new CEO Matt Williams said the firm had to be restructured as its “burn rate that is too high” and costs must be significantly reduced. As a result 25 Digg staffers losing their jobs. Read More »

Nielsen says 360,000 behind The Times paywall – how many are paying?

UPDATE – Figures out today from Nielsen are estimating that The Times has 362,000 unique users behind its paywall each month. There is no way to tell how accurate these figures are although Nielsen says it is confident of the number.

The metrics firm also says that rather than a 90% + fall in traffic at The Times and Sunday Times websites have suffered an 88% drop in UK unique users since News International erected its paywall. Read More »

The world without Apple and the evolution of the Mac [Infographic]

It’s hard to imagine, but maybe in some corner of the multiverse, in some high castle, they don’t have Apple Macs. Weird, huh? No iPhones, no Macbooks and *sniff* no iPods. Maybe everyone has Sony Walkmans and Dells.

This infographic imagines such a future would be like and also charts the development of Apple from the dawn of time (aka the 70s) and into the early 80s and 1984 and the debut of the all-one- Macintosh 128k computer brought to us by Ridley Scott’s famous ad. Enjoy. Read More »

The Currys & PC World Star Wars TV ad [Director's Cut]

Who knows why George Lucas said yes to this one, but he did and the rest is TV history as a couple of droids wander through the retail space.

Of course, they get to meet other robots – or at least glorified vacuum cleaners. Enjoy. Read More »

Pitching movies or filming shows, Hollywood is hooked on iPads

The New York Times has the lowdown on how Apple’s iPad is taking Hollywood by storm. Ideas are being presented on them and scripts are being read on them.

It is quickly coming, the paper says, the must have gadget as recently witnessed by the producers working on the sequel to 2009′s Star Trek movie. They made part of a presentation using an iPad not unlike those used in previous Star Trek TV shows decades before the iPad. Read More »

Amazon Kindle will let you lend your eBooks

This could be interesting, Amazon says that in an update to its Kindle e-reader device it is going to allow readers to share their ebooks.

That is so cool. That’s what real book are all about and what (at the moment) ebooks lack – they lack lendability. Read More »

Twitter considers raising as much as $200m in new funding

Investment interest in Twitter is reaching fever pitch and while to date the company has not taken any of these new offers of funding up that could be about to change.

Reports suggest that Twitter is giving serious consideration to entering into another round of funding, which could see it raise as much as $200m. Read More »