Category: Social Media
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Twitter takes control of its story as it prepares for an IPO
The days when you heard about a company’s plans for a stock market flotation via a newspaper report or a TV or radio news item are now so much part of our nostalgic reflecting on simpler, slower times with the…
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Disney brings the second-screen experience to the movies
The advent of mobile devices – especially tablets – has changed people’s behaviours in how we access, consume and share information across multiple devices, and where we do it, as surveys constantly show us. One place you don’t see that…
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Google makes it easier for people to find and amplify trusted content
Of two new Google+ features announced yesterday by Google – authorship attribution and embedding posts – the latter caught my imagination straightaway. If you want to embed a post published publicly on Google+, you can now embed that content in…
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The state of the social web according to GlobalWebIndex
Some interesting metrics form part of a global study into social media usage and trends published last week by GlobalWebIndex, the London-based market research firm. Stream Social: Q2 2013 examines usage worldwide of the top five social platforms – Facebook,…
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Tweets that self-destruct
I guess it’s inevitable that everyone reporting on Spirit for Twitter likens its self-destructing tweet service to SnapChat, the mobile app for real-time picture and video messaging that self-destruct after a sender-defined time, up to ten seconds. Spirit is similar…