What does the Google+ redesign bring to you?

Since Google’s announcement and release of the new interface for Google+ on 11th of April, we’ve been playing around with some of their adjustments. It is now time for us to give you an in-depth-y overview of what we believe this change means to you on a personal and business level. First off we notice […]

Majority of Draw Something fb fans are NOT happy with Zynga buyout.

Having a quick-look over at OMGPOP’s fan page, we see that the majority of fans are not happy with the $18 million cash acquisition of the company by massive game developer behind FarmVille and Words with Friends. The users are mostly worried about the amount of forced-purchases and premium addons that will be enforced by […]

Messages enabled for brand pages on Facebook

What an exciting day, and the Facebook Marketing Conference hasn’t even started yet! We just noticed that users will be able to message a brand privately. This could become a crucial part of the customer service a brand can now offer directly through Facebook. From what we can tell, users can message a brand and […]

It’s official: Brands are getting timelines on Facebook [pics]

We were waiting patiently, whilst preparing a few campaigns for launch tomorrow, to hear how Facebook was planning to change the marketing of brands through it’s network. We all expected them to announce the timelines for pages and many worried about what implications this would be for the tabs we have all invested massive resources […]

Facebook Updates Photo Browser, Again!

Facebook have upgraded their overlay pop-up photo browser. From our observations this is good for: Brands/Users – More emphasis is given to the source of the image. Whether it be a user or a fan page, the prominence of the information may lead to more followers if a photo is re-shared. Advertisers – More prominent […]

Exclusive Synergy of Social Media Services for Cyprus Market

It is our great pleasure to announce the official signing of an agreement with Divine Advertising for the exclusive representation of Ektagon’s Social Media services in the Cypriot market. Divine Advertising has been a leader in the Cypriot advertising market for some time now, having guided their many grateful clients through highly successful campaigns that […]

10 more hurdles and Facebook controls the world…

…well not really, but it’s amazing to see how the big blue social network has surpassed the popularity of almost all social networks, including the previously-popular local network that many countries enjoyed. An analyst has been plotting the dominance of Facebook as the social network of choice across the world. There are only 10 countries […]

Could BlackBerry be saved under the new CEO at RIM?

A few hours ago it was reported that there was an internal leadership change. This is welcomed news to shareholders, BlackBerry enthusiasts and bloggers alike. It’s been a horrible year for the guys at RIM with the failed PlayBook launch, copyright disputes about the name of their new OS and the outages we all remember […]

The internet responds to the closure of Megaupload [LiveTicker]

The short story… The US Justice department has closed down the megaupload network and arrested it’s founders. Anonymous has responded by taking down several prominent organisation’s websites. The US Justice Department said that Megaupload’s two co-founders Kim Dotcom, formerly known as Kim Schmitz, and Mathias Ortmann were arrested in Auckland, New Zealand along with two […]

Chrome surpassed IE as second most used browser in Cyprus in 2011

Whilst compiling statistics for our OnThisIsland.com network, we noticed that Internet Explorer was knocked further down the podium of browsers of choice by the thousands of users from around the island. In 2010, 34.5% of visitors to OnThisIsland.com used Internet Explorer whilst only 16.7% used Chrome. Firefox sat as the favourite browser, with 36.3% the […]