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Black Friday And Thanksgiving Reveal Growth Of Mobile

Sales data is now beginning to emerge from Thanksgiving and Black Friday, and it looks like the big winner is the mobile sector. Mobile sales were up 43% on last[...]

A Personal Response – From A Machine

In 1950, Alan Turing posed the question: will there ever be a machine that can successfully imitate a human? In recent years, several machines have come close to[...]

Twitter And TV Conversation Targeting

Following the rollout of extra shopping tools by Google at the weekend, Twitter has now added new advertising features that many retailers will want to latch onto[...]

Public Wi-Fi Hotspots – The Risks

Keeping things up to date on a busy business website or social networking site is essential to stay ahead of the competition, but it can be very time consuming. Many[...]

Pinterest And Instagram Ads Roll Out For Christmas

As excitement grows in anticipation of Cyber Monday, it is time for retailers to start thinking seriously about the new advertising options now being rolled out to[...]

Google’s Next Move

For several years now there has been talk of Google using social signals alongside the familiar metrics of search engine optimization in establishing page rankings;[...]

Understanding Hashtags

The day after Twitter’s remarkable stock market success, it is worth taking a look at one of the features that helped it grow to the point where this was possible.[...]

Twitter Hits The Stock Market

Twitter will be floated on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) today with an asking price considerably higher than originally anticipated. With an IPO as high as $27[...]

Myspace Returns

Ten years after its launch and five years after it began to decline, Myspace is back. The last four months have seen unexpected growth at the once-forgotten social[...]

Yelpers Fight For Wages

Four individuals who have frequently posted reviews on Yelp announced this week that they are bringing a lawsuit against the review site for breach of the Fair Labor[...]

Twitter: What Users Expect

Businesses have often been warned not to begin marketing through social media unless they are prepared to keep it up, as inactive social media presences can do[...]

Facebook: Is It Still Cool?

Facebook has produced an enviable set of third-quarter figures this week. It took in over $2bn in revenue and now claims to have 728 million daily users, up 25% in[...]

Understanding YouTube Traffic

Understanding the sources and structure of traffic to YouTube videos can be incredibly helpful when developing an online video promotional strategy. Despite this,[...]

New Report Shows Facebook Conversions Are Rising

Promoting a business on Facebook is producing increasingly impressive results, according to a new study carried out by internet analysis specialists Nanigans. The[...]

Facebook Updates Page Insights

There have been big developments for social media marketing experts this week as Facebook has rolled out updates to its Page Insights system.

Bing and Klout Get Together in Search

What was once a simple influence measurement site has become much more influential itself over the past few days after forming an alliance with Bing. Now Klout[...]

How to Get it Right With Twitter

Keeping a Twitter feed active can be expensive in terms of time and money. With retweets and favorites revealing only a limited part or the picture, how can a[...]

Privacy Concerns See Facebook Users Flee

New data from market analysis company SocialBakers shows that social media giant Facebook has been rapidly shedding users, losing as many as nine million in the US[...]

Improved Yahoo Answers Goes Mobile

After a long time spent largely as an archive resource, Yahoo Answers is back in a new, improved version. Finally streamlined to fit in with the new look of other[...]

Twitter to Go Public

Popular social media site Twitter is about to be floated on the stock market; however, potential investors still have no idea what it is worth. Anxious to avoid the[...]

Instagram to Start Accepting Ads

Instagram hit 150 million users yesterday and its mission to "capture and share the world’s moments" is finally beginning to look like it might have a serious impact[...]

Integrating Your Online Presence

Most businesses have a website, a blog, a Facebook page, a Twitter account and several other marketing tools these days, but how well do they fit together? In a[...]

New Survey Suggests Twitter Engagement Boosts Sales

A new survey commissioned by Twitter from Datalogix has provided the first ever piece of hard evidence that Twitter engagement can boost sales. The results show a[...]

Making It Personal

Why do so many business owners find that they get more responses, in proportion to their number of connections, on their personal social media accounts than on their[...]

Bing Revamps Online Video Search

Yesterday Bing unveiled its new approach to video search, and it is a model that looks set to enhance the potential value of online video for search engine[...]

LinkedIn Targets Teen Market

In a surprise move, LinkedIn has decided to lower the minimum age limit for its accounts, aiming to help students and broaden its appeal to advertisers. The change[...]
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