Archive of Social media

15Nov2010
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Facebook Email service Dubbed a Gmail Killer

Today Facebook is announcing a launch for a new messaging system set to challenge the likes of Google’s Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail. This special event is an invite only conference in San Francisco. Whilst reports remain unconfirmed it is suspected that Facebook will be announcing its own email address @facebook.com which will consist of a fully fledged email system with the ability to email contacts attachments, images and videos just as you would with any other email provider. Facebook cu

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Facebook and Bing merge SEO is DEAD!!

Actually, SEO isn't dead at all...but the Facebook/Bing merge is likely to evolve the way users search, potentially. Microsoft has deepened its ties with Facebook, bolstering Bing to catch up with Google. Simply Bing will now use data posted on Facebook such as 'likes' or preferences and to use this information to provide more relevant and timely search results. Checkout Bing's Facebook page for all the details, or scroll down for more: Potentially this pushes web searches, one of

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Timberland creates 3D website as part of new online marketing strategy

Timberland, the clothing company, not the music artist has launched 5 micro sites, one in 3D, as part of their new online marketing campaign and in attempt to reach all of its wide ranging audience. It began with an overhaul of their online store, which re-launched recently and the micro sites are in place to push key ranges and aspects of its brand to wide-ranging audiences. The individual sites are designed to highlight aspects such as the brand heritage, showcasing its womens range, ill

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27Sep2010
Author
Chris
Category
Social media
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Facebook: “The social network” movie live interview on MySpace

With the release of “The Social Network” only a week away, the stars of the film are set to make a live video appearance on the social networking site that Facebook long ago unseated as top dog: MySpace. This Sunday, cast members Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield, Armie Hammer and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin will discuss the film with host Olivia Munn and also answer questions from fans – a format that has become fairly common on MySpace. The event takes place at

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27Sep2010
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Facebook places benefits to UK businesses

If you’re an iPhone owner, or even if you’re not, you may have noticed the recent addition of Facebook places which delivers a new location based service to popular social network. Facebook has developed the service to work similar to Gowalla and Foursquare whereby users can update their status by checking in to locations. Users can use the feature by either using the Facebook app for iPhone or visiting touch.facebook.com, Facebook is currently working on rolling out the service to Blackberr

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27Sep2010
Author
Chris
Category
Social media
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New Twitter revamp devalues background theme images

The gradual roll out of the new Twitter over the past few weeks has been met by many words of admiration over the internet. Its new styling brings a new dimension to Twitter browsing enabling third party content such as videos and images to be viewed within a slide out panel from the Twitters profile. The new Twitter makes viewing conversations easy and dynamic and as a result Twitter brings about new optimism for advertising prospects. The new changes will encourage greater usage by Twittere

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