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.
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.
Wikipedia 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
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.
Techcrunch is reporting that Facebook now has more than 750 million users. With its plans for China this puts it well on the way to its billion user target.
That growth, however, comes in sharp contrast to a number of recent reports that says people are abandoning the social network. Read More
Twitter is reportedly planning more in your face advertising in an effort to boost the number of ways it can generate revenues and is talking to advertisers about introducing “promoted tweets” into the tweet streams of its users.
The move could have serious ramification for how people experience Twitter. At the moment the only tweets people see in their tweet stream are those that they have chosen to follow. Twitter’s plan would introduce advertising. Read More
Foursquare: deal with Amex
In spite of predictions that Facebook Places would kill off Foursquare, the geo-location social network is still going strong, revealing this week that it has 10 million members and a new partnership with American Express.
The deal works in the United States and will see American Express users required to sync their cards with a Foursquare account in order to get discounts at retailers and restaurants.
Real-time social shopping with your friends online is a growing area with huge potential for brands, offering a higher level of engagement than standard ecommerce, but also greater insight into consumer purchasing behaviour. Read More
One of the leading bloggers Bahrain, who regarded by fellow Bahrainis as one of his country’s internet pioneers, Ali Abdulemam, has received a 15 year prison sentence and another is given a life sentence as the online activists leading the Arab Spring in the Gulf Kingdom pay the price.
Blogger Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace was one of eight imprisoned Bahrainis to receive life sentences while Abdulemam, was given 15 years in absentia, according to Reporters Without Borders. Read More
Last week we heard about Guardian News & Media’s new strategy that it is calling “digital-first”, an admission that while print isn’t dead it is digital where the growth and future is.
Now we hear more details of that strategy and it is bad news as The Guardian’s editor, Alan Rusbridger, says that the move will involve “significant” job cuts over the next two years. He made his announcement on the same day that the Huffington Post said it would launch in the UK on July 6 and will no doubt be gunning for a slice of the Guardian’s traffic (not to mention the Daily Mail’s).
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