If you still haven’t had a Pinterest invite that’s no longer a problem.

Today Pinterest announced that it was dropping its invite only approach to getting a Pinterest account and opening itself up to one and all.

The invite only approach has been in place since it launched back in 2010 first as a closed and then an open beta. Read More »

Following a request on last month’s blog post asking for greater focus on non-TV creative and interactive ads we’ve tried to expand out this month’s ad list. Showcasing interactive ads after they’ve run is difficult as the interactivity has normally been taken away but we’re going to do our best for a few months. Likewise the majority of video ads run across both TV and Video (99% for Vindico in the UK and 97% in the US) so it can be difficult to find video only executions, which have also done enough to make the top 5! Again, we’ll try and make sure that we represent these ads as best we can. Feel free to respond and recommend ads to us if you like! Read More »

I wrote earlier about the success that Team GB’s Olympic athletes have had on Twitter with many seeing their follow counts massively rocket.

Two more that is true of are Gold medal cycling winners Laura Trott and Jason Kenny.

There is also an added note to their Olympic success as Trott, 20, announced on Twitter a little earlier that the two were dating. Read More »

“ Password-based security mechanisms — which can be cracked, reset, and socially engineered — no longer suffice in the era of cloud computing.”

If you haven’t read Wired writer Mat Honan’s gut-wrenching play-by-play of how his entire digital life was evaporated in the matter of hours, as his Twitter, iPhone, Mac, Gmail and iCloud were all hit, do yourself a favour and Instapaper it.

Or, if you’re too busy to read the whole article, I’ve created a quick-and-dirty summary that retraces the hacker’s steps and highlights some steps we can take to protect ourselves from similar attacks. Read More »

You can hear it in the various venues as British athletes battle it out. The chant of “GB, GB…” that has been as ever present as the sea of Union Jack flags.

That physical representation of Team GB has been echoed in social media as data from Twitter reveals that  there have been more than 4.4 million mentions of Team GB since the Games began.

The biggest spike came on on Saturday 4 August – the day Team GB won six gold medals including those won by Jessica Ennis and - Mo Farah. Read More »

Zynga has parted company with its chief operating officer John Schappert with immediate effect as shares in the social games firm continue to fall.

Shares in the FarmVille and PetVille game maker were down by more than 2% when they closed last night and now stand at $2.95.

Zynga floated on the Nasdaq at $10 a share in December. While it briefly bobbed above its IPO price its stock has been on a downward trajectory since. Read More »