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Facebook starts its war on spam
As Facebook is now a private company with shareholders, it will be pressured into ramping up its revenue generating abilities. Inevitably this will mean more ads on the site as well as commercial apps within people’s notifications. However, there’s a little good news for those who don’t want their notifications filled with apps and comment...
Five start-ups Facebook should consider buying
Facebook and Google have recently made some significant acqu-hires (where they buy a digital start-up and hire the engineering staff). Facebook’s infamous purchase of Instagram caught all the headlines but its most recent purchase of Lightbox, and Google’s recent purchase of Milk, shows how the web giants are firmly focused on the mobile future. The...
Bing sets its sights on Google as search battle goes social
There is only one player in online search at present and that’s Google. Microsoft’s Bing search engine just doesn’t compete with Google, especially outside the US. Bing accounted for 15% of U.S. searches in March, according to research comScore. Google had 66%.This, however, could be about to change as Bing will now incorporate activities from...
Microsoft commits to carbon neutral future
Microsoft is the latest tech giant to strive towards a greener future. Today it announced it will make all of its data centers, software development labs, air travel, and office buildings carbon neutral. “We recognize (sic) that we are not the first company to commit to carbon neutrality, but we are hopeful that our decision...
Google TV still struggling in the US
LG Electronics will launch a range of TVs that are suitable to run Google TV in the US, according to Reuters. They will go on sale in late May. This is good news for Google’s fledgling TV service as it fights to gain traction in the world’s most competitive TV market. The Google TV-powered sets...
Crowd funding site Kickstarter comes of age
There are many crowd funding sites on the web, but one of the first and probably most successful is Kickstarter, a US-based start-up founded by Charles Adler, Perry Chen and Yancey Strickler. While Kickstarter was founded initially as a place where people could try and get funding for more off-beat projects like documentaries or children’s...
Click to call ads on Skype – will they bother you?
When Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 billion in October 2011, many senior tech heavyweights questioned why it paid so much and also why it ‘really’ wanted the technology. As it turns out, Microsoft bought Skype because it saw the online video phone service as a potential ad platform. In February this year, Microsoft Advertising confirmed...
Be careful on Facebook, you may need a job one day
I once worked in a small company run by narcissists who took a pleasure in checking what people (mainly colleagues and clients) were up to on social media sites. This was in the very early days of Facebook and ‘Facebook spying’ was in its infancy. Any perceived Facebook faux pas committed by individual clients was...
What Facebook bought next … and why
Following its $1 billion purchase of photo app Instagram, Facebook then bought another mobile company – Tagtile. While no money was mentioned, this latest purchase by Facebook shows how seriously it is taking the fact that it has to play catch up in the mobile arena. Tagtile started with a “simple goal” and that was...
Last chance to register a branded web domain
This week, on April 12th, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will stop accepting applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). Currently there are 22 current top-level domains, .com is the main one while .org and .co are also popular. However, some time next year, hundreds of new gTLDs will go live....
Google (x) – the top secret lab developing Project Glass
Imagine a hands free, mobile device that allows you to search seamlessly as you move through the physical world around you. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, have gone a long way to creating such a magical tool. Much has been written about Google Glasses or ‘Project Glass’ (see video below), and...
The seven ages of Tom – a Google+ TV ad
Google’s first British TV ad for its flegling social experiment, Google+, has been created. A nice piece of work it is too. Very similar in theme to Facebook’s ‘Timeline’ ads which show how a person’s life can be shared online using a social network. Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch, the ad recites the famous lines from...
