Freestyle Blog

Dubbed the “Instagram for video”, Socialcam is the newest smartphone app taking the social media world by storm. Last week it was rumoured that the start-up (founded by the guys behind the live video streaming website Justin.TV – Michael Seibel, Ammon Bartram and Guillaume Luccisano) had over 20 million active users of the app and [...]

Once again the age old argument of online piracy reared its eye patched head and stamped its wooden leg all over the media this week. With the UK High Court looking to block access to Pirate bay the murky difference between their site and any other site hosting online media is once again causing heated [...]

This morning PRWeek ran a story suggesting they’d seen ‘secret plans’ from Britain’s largest bank – HSBC – to create a “new online platform catering for customers’ non-financial needs” (UPDATE: Which they have now denied). This comes a week after similar plans were supposedly leaked for a Manchester United social network – which was eventually [...]

An exclusive story that broke and was spread by social media last week has sparked debate. A seemingly benign photo of the US ambassador to China buying coffee whilst carrying a rucksack has attracted widespread praise of Ambassador Gary Locke, in contrast to the lavish displays often seen by Chinese public servants. Chen Weihua writing [...]