Wake up Samsung, Apple and HTC! RIM is down!

We noticed earlier today that Blackberry’s Internet Services had been down in Manchester, United Kingdom. A few moments ago, Blackberry announced (via their fan-page on Facebook) that there was a problem with their services in Europe, Africa and other regions. The question popped straight into our minds… as people became visually upset about the outage […]

What do you like in the morning?

Early this morning I prepared to continue work on a variety of projects with the creative folk over at Divine Advertising. I found that, once again, before I had even logged into my workstation I had already made myself a steaming hot cup of coffee. It came as no shock to me that in my sleepy […]

FB Timeline: Your Activity Feed (Control what is shown)

As we continue to dig deeper into the new Timeline profiles on Facebook, we came across the ‘Activity Feed‘. This will become a blessing to many users who would like to streamline or manually edit what appears in their timeline. The activity feed is available and visible to you, only. You can go back till […]

FB Timeline: User Information

Over the next few days we will be testing and implementing upgrades across our platforms to allow for more integration into the new Facebook Timelines. During this process we will also be posting updates to cool features, bugs or for-your-info’s about this new profile structure on the social network. Today we looked at the User […]

Why the September 2011 new Facebook layout is great for YOU!

We saw hints of what was to come a few days ago when we caught the subtle top-bar change on Facebook, and have seen many new features being tested around over the last few weeks, but this morning Facebook unleashed a new layout onto its 500million+ users. This will obviously be met by the critics […]

Don’t get burned by short-term social-media decisions

Don’t get burned by making bad decisions in the online marketing game. Have a read over some of my observations of what to look out for when choosing who to trust with your brand’s online presence. Everyone has realised that a shift to newer and more interactive forms of marketing is inevitable, and its for […]

How YouTube could become more ‘social’ with Google+

Since we use YouTube a lot during the work day, and in our leisure time, we have noticed a feature that could ideally bring in the social-factor that Google has been struggling to capture for years. Although YouTube already has a built in community with comments and friends, why not incorporate the Google+ circles above it? How this could […]

A question for brand managers and marketing directors…

If you work in marketing or are in charge of a brand’s image we have a question for you… Whilst social-networks do provide the ability to perform ‘DIY-marketing’, should your brand really be experimenting? We have always worked hard on providing quality competition platforms and online marketing solutions to our clients. These not only work […]