From Tom Watson’s intern, to Ed Miliband’s “Blackbusters tweet”, to Anthony Weiner’s weiner we are getting increasingly used to political slip-ups in social media. However, it is celebrities we really need to worry about, as they encourage their adoring fans to do all sorts of thins mad, bad, and sometimes outright dangerous things via social networks (usually Twitter).
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How cool is this? I dream of one touch pizza. We’ve all been there – empty fridge, bare cupboards and no desire to trudge down to the shops after a hard day’s work. Pizza companies have come up with plenty of easy ways to order a Margherita, from texts to websites – but Red Tomato Pizza has bested them all with a Bluetooth fridge magnet that’ll order up your favourite slice with one click. Read More »

Once seen by many as a mere blip on the landscape when it came to influence, bloggers are now looming large on the stakeholder landscape and they are becoming increasingly prominent as this area of the social web matures.

As part of our What’s Next series of events we were keen to find out from bloggers where they see the future of blogging so we played host to the London Bloggers Meet Up.  Read More »

The Econ0mist has proven itself incredibly successful on Facebook and very adept at engaging people on the social network. Testament to that is its passing the one million fans mark.

The one million strong milestone highlights not only how well it has done, but also how much bigger it is on Facebook when compared to its rivals. It has more than twice as  many fans as Time and the Wall Street Journal for instance. Read More »

In the run up to Apple’s 36th birthday, it was founded on April Fools’ Day in 1976, Unruly Media has put together a ranking of the most-shared Apple videos of all time.

We’ve pulled together the top 15 here with most created by TBWA\Media Arts Lab. There are  a lot of iPhone 4 ads, but there are also some classics here too including “1984″ and “Think different”. Read More »

Weeks after its initial release the Kony 2012 video, from the small campaigning organisation Invisible Children, which aims to bring Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony to justice for crimes against humanity, still tops the viral charts and has now racked up more than 86 million views, but can it happen again?

Invisible Children co-founder Bobby Bailey, who left the charity in 2009, has created another film that focuses on the mothers of the child soldiers who are often too scared to return home because of reprisal fears. Read More »