Archive for 2011

The Most Popular Mobile Websites Of 2011

Friday, 23rd December 2011

Opera Software has recently released their last report for the year 2011,  ranking the 10 most popular websites on mobile. (more…)

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Google Launches New Ad Formats For Tablets

Thursday, 22nd December 2011

Google recently launched new tablet-specific ad formats with a view to satisfy the expectations of this emerging group of users and to help marketers reach out to this rapidly-growing audience effectively. (more…)

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Twitter Receives $300 Million Bounty

Tuesday, 20th December 2011

Popular microblogging site, Twitter, has received an investment of $300 million from an Arab Prince. (more…)

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Microsoft Launches New Social Network

Monday, 19th December 2011

Microsoft has just rolled out a new social networking site that experiments with the concept of social search and specifically targets students. (more…)

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J-Lo, Take That Have Biggest Comebacks On Search

Wednesday, 14th December 2011

Take That’s phenomenal musical comeback in 2005 may have been the biggest seen in the UK in recent times but it is only half the size of the comeback made by Jennifer Lopez in the U.S. reveals a new study. (more…)

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Facebook To Remove App Pages

Monday, 12th December 2011

Facebook currently creates an profile page for every application created on the network. This can lead to confusion as often businesses create apps just to enhance their main profile pages and then these apps end up having their own stand-alone page. Facebook has recently announced that they will remove all app profile pages on 1st February 2012. (more…)

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StumbleUpon Re-branded & Redesigned

Friday, 9th December 2011

Over 17 million visitors go to StumbleUpon.com every month. The social media site, which allows users to randomly explore the Web, has just been re-branded and updated with several new features. (more…)

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Lego Stop Motion Christmas Video from AccuraCast

Monday, 5th December 2011

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our readers!!

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Facebook Could Be Forced To Deliver Privacy

Thursday, 1st December 2011

Following the passing of new privacy guidelines for social networks by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Facebook stated that they are very willing to follow those rules. Putting this to practice may be more difficult than it seems. (more…)

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Facebook Forced To Review User Privacy

Wednesday, 30th November 2011

Over a period of time, Facebook has had to deal with a lot of problems regarding user privacy, and on Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) laid out specific rules for Facebook to follow in this regard. (more…)

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Google Hosts First Engage Event For Agencies In London

Monday, 28th November 2011

On Friday, 25th November,  Google organised the first ever Engage event for agencies in the UK. Their objective for this event was to help agencies help small businesses advertise online. This post summarises key topics covered at the event. (more…)

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Google Pushes Google+ At Expense Of Old Products

Friday, 25th November 2011

As Google’s social networking star, Google+ continues to grow and acquire interesting new features, older Google products continue to be axed, presumably to free-up resources to support their new favourite. (more…)

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Can Twitter Forecast The GOP Poll Results?

Thursday, 24th November 2011

While several organisations conduct studies to predict poll results, the latest tool being used to do so is Twitter. (more…)

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Facebook Ticker To Include Sponsored Stories

Tuesday, 22nd November 2011

Facebook has now decided to increase the scope of advertising on their website, by placing Sponsored Stories in their recently introduced News Ticker. Could this be the first step towards having Sponsored Stories show up in the main news feed? (more…)

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Google Music‏ – Hit Or Miss?

Friday, 18th November 2011

On Wednesday, Google launched an update to a service called ‘Google Music’ that was previously in beta. The service is now available to everyone in the United States and will allow users to upload, purchase, store, share and listen to music in digital form from any device. (more…)

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Internet Usage In South East Asia Surges

Tuesday, 15th November 2011

A recent report from Nielsen has indicated that Internet use in South East Asia is on the rise.  The study finds that not only is the internet growing in popularity but it is even out-shining the use of other traditional media channels such as TV radio and the print media. (more…)

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Mobile Retail Marketing To Reach $15 Billion

Monday, 14th November 2011

Mobile retail marketing has been gaining popularity and is set to grow even further. This has just been confirmed by a report from Juniper Research. (more…)

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Google+ Business Pages – Should You Care?

Wednesday, 9th November 2011

Google Plus, the social side of Google has recently opened up for business accounts. The new feature, known (unsurprisingly) as Google+ Pages, went live on Monday and the verdict on them is not very encouraging so far. (more…)

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Mobile Data Traffic Expected To Grow 10-Fold

Tuesday, 8th November 2011

Mobile data traffic is set to grow to ten times its current volume in the next five years, Ericsson has predicted . (more…)

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