Some users, like Ryan Spoon, have already seen the implementation of Facebook’s newest media offering, a homepage take-over advertisement for eBay. A large display area on one of the most popular ‘left on screen’ pages we’ve ever seen, that ties in with a pretty useless* social advert displayed in the bottom right hand corner. As […]
Trending all over ‘social’ circles today is the discovery by Tom Waddington of the upcoming ‘Want’ button, that we assume will allow users around the world to add items to a wish-list on Facebook that any app can access (with your permission of course). This opens up the gateway to many forms of social commerce […]
According to a Google Lat Long blog post, you can now browse and find locations inside more than 40 buildings in the UK with the latest version of Google Maps for Android devices. Although most are in London, we do see Manchester’s airport there in the list. We see this navigation assistance becoming more and […]
Well since we setup a workspace here in the heart of Manchester, we’ve been pretty interested in the news stories breaking world-wide with regard to this awesome city. Today a post on techcrunch caught our attention about a man who tore apart a T-mobile shop in Market Street just down the road. We’re still unsure […]
Just noticed a cheeky update to our fanpage/timeline on Facebook, that allows admins to choose how they respond/interact as they work. Previously, admins needed to choose an overall setting as to how they would be displayed in comments and likes on their brands’ timelines. Now, admins can choose how to be portrayed on a case-by-case […]
It’s been a while coming, and today Facebook finally announced their own official plugin for WordPress. We’ve just begun testing it now, and will be doing even more vigurous testing with our partners at Divine Advertising over the next few weeks. (We are still busy testing another social integration method that opens up a site […]
With reports spreading about the distribution of over 6 MILLION decrypted passwords from LinkedIn’s user system, we must urge you that if you have made the error of using the same email and password combination for other sites that you CHANGE ALL YOUR PASSWORDS IMMEDIATELY! This goes for your email, facebook, twitter, or any other social […]
Brands all over the world are still ‘buying‘ likes and followers to appear to have the following online that matches the expectation created by their perceived offline popularity. (A bit of a mouthful we know, but bear with us) Whilst we can understand the WANT to appear to have 10’s of thousands more likes or […]
There are many campaigns around the internet trying to stop companies like Facebook and Google from using the information you share with them to target ads at you, but we disagree with them. Not only as marketeers, but mostly as consumers, we find that the more targeted an advert is, the more successful it is. […]
Those looking to invest in the social network will be happy to know that they have now bumped their total share offering to just below 337,500,000 shares. Facebook had this to say: We and the selling stockholders have granted the underwriters the right to purchase up to an additional 50,612,302 shares of Class A common […]