Daily Archives: 30 June, 2011

The Times claims 100k plus subscribers on paywall anniversary – adds 22,000

News International has put out some updated figures detailing how The Times and The Sunday Times paywalls are performing.

Back in March we reported that News International was claiming 79,000 digital subscribers. That figure has risen to just over 100,000 in time for its first birthday. It is a nice round number. Read More »

Time editor calls the President Obama a “dick” live on MSNBC – trends on Twitter

Time magazine editor Mark Halperin called President Barack Obama a “dick” on Thursday’s live Morning Joe show on MSNBC.

Why would you do that? As you can see in the video below he quickly apologised, but the damage was done. Read More »

Google shuts down “invite mechanism” for Google +

Is it me or is Google going about is launch of Google + in the most knack handed way you could possibly do it?

Google + launched yesterday and Google has currently shut down the invites to Google + because of “insane” demand. Who would have guessed. Weren’t they expecting that? Read More »

Is social media saving TV?

The way we are watching TV has fundamental changed in two ways over the last couple of years. We no longer watch programming on an actual TV; instead we are increasingly watching shows on streaming sites like the BBC iPlayer or on DVR’s. The second major change is the way we interact with our peers as we watch, posting our thoughts or looking up info on our phones, tablets, etc. Read More »

The global pulse of Twitter – how news spreads around the globe

Twitter has release a couple of nice data visualisation videos showing how during major events, like the the World Cup the royal wedding and the March 11 earthquake in Japan, people use Twitter to share news and how that virally spreads across the globe through retweets, @replies and Direct Messages. Read More »