Have you checked out RockMelt and signed up? If you haven’t heard, its a new web browser created with the social web in mind.
The idea is that rather than simply navigating web pages it makes it easy to do all the stuff you do every day whether that’s using Twitter and Facebook, watching YouTube videos and of course surfing the web. Read More
Yahoo! is following the example of AOL’s SEED network by inviting people to contribute content through a new ‘crowdsourced media platform’ called the Yahoo! Contributor Network.
They’re not starting from scratch. Through its acquisition of Associated Content in May 2010, Yahoo! has a readymade system in place for over 400,000 people to supply articles, images and video to sites including News, Finance, Sports and even the homepage. Read More
Do people expect you to be ‘available’ on Twitter in the same way you are on your phone (or possibly on email)?
Twitter has added a new ‘push’ mechanism so that you can now be automatically updated when you’re mentioned (at least by your @name) on Twitter.
Twitter: who is talking about you?
Things are reported to becoming together for News Corporation’s app based newspaper, which is to simply be called The Daily, as a string of staff are hired to write content and a budget of around $30 million has been assigned.
The project is expected to launch before the end of the year and Rupert Murdoch is said to be personally heavily involved in the development of The Daily, which at one time was rumoured was going to be named The Daily Planet. Read More
For almost two years now, digital marketers have been riding the crest of a wave. Social media has been ‘new’ enough for the simple setting up of a social presence to equate to a ‘win’ for a large majority of marketing departments worldwide.
Global boards have been placated by the simple fact that their brands ‘have a Facebook page’ or ‘are on Twitter’. But as we wind up 2010 and head into another new year, digital marketers need to recognise that social is no longer new – which means new social strategies are required. Read More
This is quite cool. I’m having a moment of nostalgia. I’d love to get sent one of these printed cards from someone for my birthday. Timecarpet.com has basically snapped up the rights to a bunch of comics and magazine covers (not to mention Haynes Manuals for the boys) that you can send as cards.
It’s like this magical carpet ride back to your childhood and beyond. What girl doesn’t have a slight fondness for Jackie? I used to read my older sister’s copy. Read More
Beehive City is reporting that The News of the World, now bricked up behind its anti-social media paywall, has witnessed a 38.5% drop in monthly unique visitors to its website between September and October 2010 based on comScore figures.
The News of the World paywall only went live in mid-October so that is a particularly sharp drop as it includes half of the month when the site was still free to access. Read More
It seems that the travel agent Travel Republic is setting the value at around 25p per thumbs-up, given that it has promised to donate £25,000 to Children In Need if it manages to get 100,000 fans on its Facebook page by Friday.
Travel Republic: pleading for followers
UPDATE 1500 - Well there you go its official. The Beatles are on iTunes. The band’s 13 albums are yours to download or a sprinkling as, I’m sure many will do, of Beatles singles.
Ringo Starr kind of sums it up when he says he’s “particularly glad to no longer be asked when the Beatles are coming to iTunes”. Read More
Facebook has taken the lid off of its big email (but not email) announcement that was tipped last week in a major challenge to Google’s Gmail and Microsoft’s Hotmail with the launch of a “social inbox”, which allows the integrating of chat, texts and email in one place. The idea is that it creates one seamless social media conversation.
It is also launching @facebook.com email addresses for all those who want them and I imagine there will be quite a few. Read More
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