YouTube stream of Dutch football team gets 35,000 viewers
A YouTube stream of the Netherlands football team training ahead of their England friendly match has notched up an impressive 35,000 viewers.
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Twitter unlocks 2 years of tweet archive for market research
Twitter has partnered with data firm Datasift to unlock the vast archive of user tweets made since 2010, allowing firms to access them for market research purposes.
US Internet use: Americans 18-34 ‘are the most connected’
Born sometime between the launch of the VCR and the commercialisation of the Internet, Americans 18-34 are redefining media consumption with their unique embrace of all things digital, according to new research.
Video report: City of the future? Kansas residents test Google’s ultra-fast internet
Google is installing ultra-high speed fibre optic internet service in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri.
Facebook denies spying on text messages
Facebook has denied reports that it is spying on users is spying text messages and other personal data sent from users’ smartphones.
Johnston Press ties with Zoopla for property site
Johnston Press is set to launch an online property platform on Thursday with UK property website Zoopla.
Top 5 performing ad formats
After reviewing 300,000 creatives served globally, ad serving firm MediaMInd has discovered that certain formats are performing far better in engaging more users and for longer.
Right to Reply: Facebook censorship rules- publish and be damned?
As Facebook’s rules about whether to censor specific postings made by users have now been published for the first time in the media, Joanna Morley, Social Media & Online PR Manager at SiteVisibility, argues that the guidelines contradict the social networks own approach to user’s privacy.
ICANN now accepting .wales and .cymru domain names
The Welsh government has said will not object to a bid for the right to use the ‘.wales’ and ‘.cymru’ domain names.
Top 5 tips: Promoting coupons on Facebook
2011 marked the year that many FMCG brands went social. For some it was small-scale exploratory activity. For others the creation of a Facebook Fan Page or Twitter profile was a social land grab to directly counter the plethora of unofficial pages/profiles that have emerged. However for some of the more forward thinking brands it … [Read more…]