Do you ever feel like you need just a few more characters? And no matter how hard you try, turning sentences into txt speak supplanting “ands” with an ampersand, still doesn’t get you to within your 140 character limit?

Well fear not. That could all be about to change. Tweetdeck has come up with a way of pushing beyond the 140 character limit and its called Deck.ly. Read More »

Is it that time already? Yesterday, Gartner said that mobile application revenue will nearly triple in 2011, to $15.1bn ($5.2bn last year) and much of that growth will come from 18 billion app downloads 60,000 of which are designed for the Apple iPad, which has seen sales beat expectations.

The iPad, almost a year old now, had racked up sales of almost 15 million (14.8 million by the end of 2010) and about 7.33 million of those sales came in December. That growth is set to rocket this year as this infographic shows. Read More »

I’m sure at one stage people were talking about the death of TV. That is so far from the truth as this US infographic shows.

Market research outfit Lab 42, using applications within Facebook and MySpace,  reveal how Americans are watching more TV now than ever before. Sure, it is a small sample, but am guessing it is not far off the mark.

What it doesn’t show is how we watch TV with social media. Who doesn’t watch the X-Factor or other car crash viewing with Twitter and Facebook? Read More »

Barack Obama and his team are ramping up their social media efforts to get the president’s agenda out following his State of the Union address.

The Obama team will mix traditional events and political appearances with outreach via Facebook, Twitter and Google YouTube. It is almost all something of a test as the administration gears up for re-election in 2012, but what’s clear at the moment is that the next big thing in digital and social media campaigning has not yet emerged. Read More »