Daily Archives: 28 June, 2011

Glastonbury by social media numbers – Beyonce rules as Orange made itself heard

BrandWatch has put out some a round-up of the Glastonbury social buzz where mentions of Beyonce outstripped any other artist by miles followed by Cold Play. Yes Chris Martin is right there behind Mrs Jay Z who rocked that muddy slice of Somerset.

Overall, the social media monitoring firm tracked 169,000 Glastonbury mentions, with a whopping 56,000 coming between Monday and Friday lunchtime before a chord had even been played. Read More »

Google’s What Do You Love highlights its products – and a gaping hole

What Do You Love: Google wants to know

Google has quietly launched a new website called What Do You Love, highlighting the many, many products it offers (and, inadvertently, the ones it doesn’t).

What Do You Love has the familiar clean look of Google’s very first product, the Google search engine.

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MySpace to lay of more than 60% of staff in final push to sell

News Corporation is reported to be getting ready to make yet more job cuts at MySpace. Earlier this month we heard investors were in talks to buy majority stake in MySpace.

Today we learn that as many as 150 of the remaining 400 MySpace staff will get the chop.

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Group hug! It’s time to share the WikiLove

WikiLoveWikipedia has decided its editors need to feel a little bit more valued. So it’s introducing ‘a simple experiment in appreciation’ called WikiLove. Read More »

Twitter launches Twitter for Newsrooms

This is good and a much needed resource from Twitter, which has today launched Twitter for Newsrooms or #TfN. It is full of resources to help individual journalists and media organisations at different steps of the reporting and publishing process.

Although as others have already pointed out Twitter is essentially a virutal newsroom with different desks represented by different tweeters and feeds.

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