Posts Tagged ‘facebook’
Prime Minister David Cameron, speaking in the wake of the shocking riots across England, has proposed banning people from social media platforms if they can be shown to be engaging in or plotting criminal activities. Cameron (and several other politicians and commentators) have taken notice of the way social media and communications platforms were used [...]
Search engine optimisation (often referred to as SEO) is a tricky game at the best of times; throw in a new algorithm update and an increased reliance on social media, and it’s extremely easy to quickly find yourself lost. Two of the major search engines operating in the UK – Google and Bing – have [...]
According to a recent set of statistics released by Experian Hitwise, Facebook now account for almost one-quarter of all website page views and 10% of overall internet visits. Google, who will be more concerned than most about Facebook’s increasing domination of internet page views, came in second on the survey, holding around a 7% market [...]
Facebook Places, the newest addition to the social networking giant, has now been officially rolled out in the UK. The service, which allows users to ‘check in’ to locations from their mobile devices or iPhone applications, has already been unveiled in the US and Japan and the whole of Europe is thought to be next [...]
Moma Propaganda, an ingenious advertising agency from Brazil, has come up with a series of incredible vintage adverts to demonstrate how social media could have been portrayed in the swinging sixties. The ad agency produced promotional posters for Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Skype as part of their ‘Everything Ages Fast’ campaign for client Maximidia Seminars.
A lot has been said recently about Facebook’s privacy policies, their databases and the fact that Facebook are second only to the US and UK governments in terms of how much personal information they hold. With Facebook reaching a mammoth 500 million worldwide users (which, if they were a country, would make them the third [...]