Category: Communication

  • Social networks from the Financial Times

    BrandRepublic reports that the Financial Times’ conferences arm has launched a pay-to-join membership forum so that media and technology executives working in the digital, new media, mobile and telecoms sectors can network. Not only a forum for people in this…

  • The continuing growth of Twitter

    An interesting stat posted on the Twitter blog shows which are the top ten countries with the most people using the Twitter social network as determined from Twitter’s public timeline. That’s how I describe Twitter, incidentally – a social network,…

  • Facebook fatigue and niche networks

    Social networking site Facebook saw its first drop in UK users in January, according to research from Nielsen Online as reported by the BBC. Users fell 5% to 8.5 million in January from 8.9 million in December, according to data…

  • The key for Microsoft and Yahoo

    It’s anyone’s guess at the moment whether Microsoft will succeed in its bid to acquire Yahoo. Following Yahoo’s rejection of the unsolicited bid, subsequent speculation on who else might emerge as a white knight, or even whether Yahoo and Google…

  • Defining the press release

    Richard McManus recounts an email exchange with Business Wire in which the news distribution service said companies and marketers can use Business Wire to bypass journalists and bloggers to get into key news sources like Techmeme and search engine results.…