We so often hear how “powerful” our Internet is, how social media is altering the face of communication, but just how “powerful” is “powerful”? A billion internet people, billions of scraps of information shared, Tweeted headline news even before the headline news, citizen journalists, all the now familiar terms come together to reveal the world’s …
Defining the various disciplines that makeup a communications company or effort is not something many media outlets undertake to do anymore. What’s the difference between this kind of marketing or that? Is PR part of advertising or marketing, or vice versa? What is traditional public relations versus content PR? A recent infographic by Calysto Communications illustrates the differentiation …
AddThis, the largest social infrastructure and data platform on the open web, has determined the “Social Sharing Trends of 2012” by measuring the sharing habits of more than 1.3 billion people a month, across 14 million domains and 300+ services. This year, the Presidential Election, London Olympics, Superstorm Sandy, and YouTube launching instantaneous pop stars …
Instagram may find it challenging to keep relevant and popular now that another photo service tries to grab its market share. The war with Twitter is not yet over, and there’s another opponent in sight: Flickr. Flickr, today, upgraded its iPhone App with filters, Twitter integration and more. The upgrades are Marissa Mayer’s response to …
Yesterday Microsoft’s Bing released an all new design for their social sidebar, a version less cluttered and better linked to friends and trends. Designed to present Bing users with relevant results of friend networks via Foursquare, Twitter, Facebook, and Klout, the social side of search is still located on the right side of a user’s …
For many mobile industry analysts, T-Mobile seemed to be “going the way of the dodo”, but the world’s third-largest mobile-phone service provider now has an ace up its sleeve: the iPhone. No biggie, if you consider that many other carriers offer iPhones or support iPhones with their contracts, but a big deal if you think …
Not long ago we reported that Twitter had planned to roll out its own photo filtering service by the end of the year. This has been confirmed by Twitter as of Monday. Things have been rocky between Instagram and Twitter ever since Facebook acquired the photo sharing service, for approximately $1 billion in cash and stock, …
Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace, (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852) is celebrated today by Google, with a doodle already acclaimed by several tech publications around the world wide web. For those of you unfamiliar with Ada Lovelace’s work and achievements, she is known for translating from French to English, and annotating, Luigi Menabrea’s …
Twitter’s rumored own photo filtering feature is already being described as an Instagram killer, despite the fact that there is no official Twitter announcement in this regard. Well, unless you consider photos tweeted by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey the proof in the pudding. As you already know, Instagram turned off support for Twitter cards to …
A guy in Google forums once asked; “Why is there no Google Doodle in honor of December 7th? (Pearl Harbor)” With Google Doodles for everything from Apple Pie to the Simpsons, how come search engines don’t wave the flag on important days? And no, Google never considered a Pearl Harbor doodle since… Today is the 71st …
