Interesting look here at the four 2012 Republican presidential front runners on Twitter and Facebook. One thing that clearly emerges is that, Ron Paul, the oldest candidate in the race is also the most successful in terms of social media across both social networks.

Paul has the highest levels of engagements and crucial scores more retweets than any of the other candidates. Read More »

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man who is credited with inventing the world wide web, has added his voice to the chorus of disapproval about the US government’s planned anti piracy legislation Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

He said that the US government’s plan, which promises five years in jail for online pirates, violates human rights. Read More »

That’s the question that Business Insider is asking. Google tells us that Google+ is growing very fast and that sign-ups are rocketing. We heard that in December Google+ hit 66.7m users worldwide with 2.6m in the UK. Further we heard that Google+ recorded its second-highest traffic record from users in India for that period, with 4.3 million unique visits, followed by Brazil with 3.6 million.

Last night Google told us that number has jumped to 90 million Google+ users suggesting it will break the 100 million barrier very shortly. That’s a very healthy figure and supports what Google has been saying, which is that signs-ups alone make it one of the web’s fastest growing websites, but are people regularly using it? What are the levels of engagement? Read More »

Last night Google announced a new update to their search algorithm. It will be one of about 500 this year and comes into effect immediately.

The blog post announcing the update does not mention the series of Panda improvements Google has been making in order to combat content farms but the algorithm update is very much of that family. The tweak punishes those webpages who have content that is too difficult to find.

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