Facebook’s new Graph Search lets users sift through the vast connections they have with fellow social networkers – including brand pages – to find relevant information to them. While brands and advertisers are still figuring out how this will affect them, Helen Crowley, Managing Director at Alchemy Social – an Experian company looks at what … [Read more…]
In a landmark copyright judgment, a US judge has ruled that two major news outlets infringed on the copyrights of a twitter user for publishing their photos without permission.
Microsoft has updated its Bing social sidebar to add more results from Facebook timelines, following the launch of the social network’s new ‘graph search’ tool.
A mobile strategy is now a given for most organisations. Yet despite investment in optimised sites and innovative apps; in creative ideas for exploiting evolving multi-device behaviour, the mobile reality has been disappointing to date with many brands struggling to achieve user engagement and significant revenue. If brands cannot find a way of encouraging users … [Read more…]
In a challenge to traditional mobile operators, Facebook is letting iPhone users in the US make free calls via its messenger app, provided they have wi-fi or mobile data access.
Google is reportedly close to buying a stake in music video site Vevo, as it looks to further monetise its video assets.
With the cold snap continuing in Britain, it’s no surprise that a great number of us have been struck down by either the flu or Norovirus. New data from Crimson Hexagon’s social media analysis platform ForSight found that 49% of Facebook and Twitter users talking about the flu expressed having had the Winter Vomiting Bug … [Read more…]
Surf Excel has launched a marketing initiative in India called ‘Fulfill a Wish’ calling upon its one million Facebook fans and consumers to be genies for a day and be the ones to fulfill wishes for a change.
Surf Excel has launched a marketing initiative in India called ‘Fulfill a Wish’ calling upon its one million Facebook fans and consumers to be genies for a day and be the ones to fulfill wishes for a change.
Further to speculation that has been building up over week, Facebook has today announced an addition to its social network – a smart search engine it has called ‘‘Graph Search ’. It will allow people using Facebook to more quickly find answers to questions about friends in their Social Graph.Andreas Pouros, COO at leading London-based … [Read more…]