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Sorry, There Are No Social Media “Gurus”.
Let’s all accept that the internet is a toddler, despite being around for about 3 decades. We’ve seen it learn from its mistakes on multiple occasions and it is constantly evolving into something...
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Vine: The harbinger of a new era?
Video files have been on the internet for ages. Streaming video started becoming popular in early 2005, when YouTube launched. In late 2006 it was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. And in 2013, we...
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Twitter changes character count for links
A couple of months ago, twitter had announced that it will change the character count of links (including photos). While no official word has been given as to what the reason for this is, the change is...
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Can facebook act as a substitute to myspace, too?
I used the old myspace a lot trying to discover new music. That’s where I first listened to Hollywood Undead (#1 in iTunes a couple of times more recently). I’d friend people based on their music taste...
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The #1 Social Media rule for Brands
Most of you who read this blog have probably seen countless presentations on fancy words like engagement, leverage, ROI and so on. Generally, yes, our industry (comms) has kind of figured out social...
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Twitter changes default timeline view for verified (?) accounts.
Quick update: Just a few days after slashing the character limit for tweets including a link, twitter goes on another irrational move. In what can only be explained as an effort to hide interesting...
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Twitter now allows line breaks – Facebook killing ticker?
Quick update: Twitter just rolled out the ability to break lines in your tweets. It’s done by hitting the return key (in case you didn’t guess) and each line break counts as one character. After...
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Facebook’s new feature – “Posting About” *upd*
The main concern that agencies/brands have regarding the new News Feed is what will happen to Fan Pages if users choose to see only updates by friends. In a possibly [...]
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Quick Update: Twitter teams up with bing to offer automatic tweet translation
As I was browsing twitter yesterday I came across an option I haven’t seen (noticed?) before. Apparently, twitter is working with bing to offer a tweet translation service, much like [...]
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Infographic: 86% of companies measure Social success by Likes/Fans & other...
If you’re in Social Media, you should have a good look at this infographic I found via The Drum. It is based on the findings of a survey which asked [...]
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Facebook’s threaded/ranked comments: Oh, The Chaos
Facebook has been testing threaded and ranked comments since last year and “officially” launched them a few weeks ago. Now that they’ve gone live and I’ve seen them in action, [...]
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Fun time! Internet Party: Why Nobody Gets Anything Done On the Web
I came across this video by Cracked recently so I thought I’d share it since it’s so… uh, social. I don’t know if I love The Pirate Bay, Instagram, WebMD [...]
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Engage 2013 Live Stream
The guys over at Socialbakers have been doing excellent work with analytics services, periodical reports, the works. If I’m not mistaken, they’re also facebook’s exclusive analytics partners in Europe....
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Facebook Rolls Out Starbucks Gifts… Again *upd*
Back in January, Facebook was testing a function that would allow people to buy Starbucks gift cards for their friends. This aimed to provide the audience with a relatively cheap [...]
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Facebook Redesigns Mobile View for Pages
Another quick Facebook post for you. Zuck’s goldmine (?) rolled out the redesigned business & fan pages for mobile with a silent update. The new design aims to fit more [...]
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Instagram adds tagging feature with “Photos of You”
A new feature from momma Facebook just hit Instagram. Users of the filtered-food-and-cats network can now tag and be tagged in photos. Tagged photos also have their own section under a user’s profile....
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5+1 Questions you should ask yourself before launching that Facebook app
“Bad” applications are not always a matter of bad design or faulty code. Sometimes they are “out of place” and they just won’t perform. This is why when you get started with a new app you should ask...
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8 Things People Need to Stop Doing on Social Media
Recently, @dkalo wrote a blog post [warning, it’s all Greek to you] about why we have to stop building branded apps. I agree on some points but that’s not the focus of this post. This one is about...
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LinkedIn Gets Even More “Facebook” With Redesigned Navigation Bar
My very first post on this blog was about LinkedIn’s Facebookification and how I feel about the skill likes – oops, endorsements. Since then I’ve noticed a couple more similarities; for example the...
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Twitter Testing “By-Default” Expanded Conversations in Home Feed?
This just in: As I was surfing the twittersphere and clicked on the “X new tweets” button, I noticed that I could see a conversation without clicking on it to expand it. Note: I’m following both...
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