Legal or illegal? Pinterest is Under The Microscope!

February 20th, 2012

Pushing a year since its birth Pinterest -  the latest sparkly online community – is all set to become the darling of social media. As is the routine in “social” the scout is always out for the next new “BIG THING”.  And judging by the PR and buzz created it seems that Pinterest might just [...]

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English Premier League clubs surpass 50 million combined Facebook Likes [INFOGRAPHIC]

February 10th, 2012

Which football team is ruling the Social Media roost in this month’s EPL infographic? This February we have added a few new metrics and treats to the infographic, including: Facebook ‘How many people are talking about’ stats Who has lost Twitter followers? Who has the Premier League’s fastest growing Facebook Page this season? What has [...]

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Top 5 bookmarklets that I use all the time

February 9th, 2012

These are bookmarklets that I use on a regular basis to make some of the more mundane tasks quicker and easier. As I spend most of my day working on SEO these bookmarklets are pretty much all focused on SEO tasks. OK so here goes…

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Amplifying the event experience: Venues need to think about connectivity requirements

February 6th, 2012

Exhibitions and events are now shareable social experiences. Exhibitors are starting to tap in to the ability to engage and interact with attendees, and event goers are increasingly seeking to commentate their personal account in real-time. This has the effect of amplifying the event into the social space – be it good or bad. This [...]

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12 Practical Uses for NFC

February 1st, 2012

A short while ago Joe Worrall wrote a great blog article about NFC (Near Field Communication) technology in 2012 which got me thinking. At the minute whenever talks about NFC, the conversation seems to be restricted to using the technology as a mobile payment platform. However, the potential for NFC is much larger than this [...]

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Freestyle Never Hides from Chip Shop Creativity

January 27th, 2012

We’ve had a great week at Freestyle, what with Blue Monday-busting booze, and curry on Thursday to celebrate Jo Wilson and Guy Brown’s 10 years of service. Today the icing on the cake is winning ad of the week with Ben Askew’s entry into the Chip Shop Awards – a spoof that links Ray Bans’ [...]

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2012: The Year of… The Second Screen

January 24th, 2012

“Considering their attention-spans to be too long, the massed consumers conspired to impose the distraction of their hand-held devices on themselves during their consumption of televised programming. These bless’d tablets and clever-phones would be seen by the Holy Adopters as the fonts of all knowledge and enlightenment, whereas the defiant unbelievers began to see them [...]

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Katie Price ‘Snickers’ stunt ignores ‘Office of Fair Trading’ Twitter warning

January 23rd, 2012

Anyone leisurely using Twitter this weekend will most certainly have noticed unusual activity on the  @MissKatiePrice (AKA. Glamour model Jordan) official Twitter account. Followers of her account (and there’s over 1.5 million of them) are typically on the end of tweets about her reality TV show, other models and clothes. So, when Jordan began to start tweeting [...]

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2012: The Year of… Near Field Communications (NFC)

January 19th, 2012

And the Consumers and the Retailers and the Banks and the Mobile Providers did come together as quorum and spoke as if of one mind and voice “Let us have contactless technology that we might do away with unwieldy wallets and wasteful plastics. Let us exchange missives and images in the blink of an eye. [...]

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2012: The Year of… Instagr.am

January 16th, 2012

And the Hipsters did turn their desperate eyes to the High Lord Techandapps and cried “Oh blessed all-knowing master, is there some way we could make ourselves look really, painfully, uber cool and edgy, oh, and a bit retro? Yeah, like those old photos we have of our parents…” And lo, the High Lord Techandapps [...]

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