YouTube is following up its first crowdsourced world leader interview with Barack Obama with…David Cameron. Read More »

Following the Football Association in the UK’s run in with players on Twitter and a subsequent crackdown last week the NFL is having similar problems in the US as a row between the players union and owners has gone loud on Twitter. Read More »

What a great infographic that delves into the key issues that brands face on social media. Is it all about followers? Are those 19 million fans you have collected worth their social media weight? And should every brand be social?

This is one to take a good read of. It inlcudes a bunch of great social media case studies looking at brands such as Starbucks, Dunkin Doughnuts, Axe, Clinque, Budweiser and Wendy’s. Enjoy. Read More »

News Corporation might recently have delayed The Sun’s move to paid content, in light of the disappointment with the The Times, but that is not stopping the Telegraph Media Group pushing ahead with plans to introduced a metered paywall for Telegraph.co.uk.

Marketing reports today that the Daily Telegraph website is to a unveil paid-for website in September and that it will be a metered model, which unlike The Times and its anti-social media paywall will allow articles to be freely shared online. Smart move. Read More »

Parents hey? But if you want a sign of the impact of social media on the popular uprising in Egypt then look no further.

CNN reports that a man in Egypt has named his newborn daughter “Facebook”.  This child is truly one of the (social media) revolution. Read More »

There are reports today that Facebook could be having a second run at tackling the China market after having talks with Chinese search giant Baidu.

The DigiCha blog reports carries news of reported meetings between Baidu and Facebook in California, as the search company looks to develop its social media offering.

Facebook: meeting with Baidu?

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The New York Times has an interesting piece taking a look at the state of the blogosphere and how blogging is in apparent decline.  It suggests that blogging is being killed off by the twin assault of kids looking instead to Twitter and Facebook and existing bloggers no longer having the time for long posts.

It is odd to come across this against the backdrop of big media attention being paid in recent weeks to blogs as we read about the Huffington Post being snapped up by AOL and various other blogs (The Daily Beast and Newsweek, Techcrunch et cetera) making headlines. Read More »

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Good news everybody! If you want a front row seat at London Fashion Week you no longer have to elbow Pixie, Alexa and Victoria out of the way. The British Fashion Council (BFC) is bringing live highlights to commuters, shoppers and tourists on screens around the capital and even on the Underground.

Building upon the digital innovation strategy it launched in 2009, the BFC also hopes its imaginative use of technology and social media will promote British designers to global audiences and position London as a leader in fashion showcasing.

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A lone tweeter with fewer than 4,000 followers appears to have achieved what people spend thousands of pounds and hours of strategy meetings to do less well — which is to get everyone talking about a brand, in this case Panda Pops, on Twitter to the extent it became a trending topic for several hours

The achievement was the work of @iamjamesward, also famous for the Boring 2010 conference and founding Stationery Club.

iamjamesward: the tweet that started a trend

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Is Google Me, Google’s long talked of and much delayed social network, finally about to launch? Could be. Google has given another hint that this might be about to happen as it announces tweaks to Google Social Search.

Google Social Search will now give far more prominence to social results. And for the first time allow people to pull in links from other social networks and link their various social networks (save Facebook) together. It all sounds very much like social media glue that Google would need to underpin a social network of its own. Read More »