Daily Archives: 25 June, 2012

Femfresh pulls Facebook page after social media vagina backlash

That didn’t take long. Less than a week after Femfresh’s Facebook page came under attack for its use of  euphemistic, or infantile words, that women supposedly use instead of the word vagina it has pulled its page from the social network.

Femfresh, owned by Church & Dwight, had received hundreds of comments on Facebook by the time it took the decision to pull the page over the weekend bringing to an end a one year stint on the social network. Read More »

Is the Guardian planning to ditch print for digital future sooner rather than later?

 Is the Guardian planning to ditch print for digital future sooner rather than later?There are rumours flying around that the Guardian is planning widespread redundancies and possibly even closing all or some of its print editions in a radical move to turn itself into an entirely digital operation in 2013.

While it seems highly unlikely that the Guardian would cease printing in the next year or so Alan Rusbridger said last year, when the paper unveiled its digital first strategy, that “every newspaper is on a journey into some kind of digital future”. Read More »

Financial Times is the biggest newspaper on Google+ as it passes one million followers

Someone is doing well on Google+. The Financial Times has quietly become the biggest newspaper brand on Google+ as it passed the one million follower mark.

That easily makes it the biggest and fastest growing newspaper on the Google social platform and puts it well ahead of the rest of the international newspaper market. Read More »