Category: Social Media
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The SOPA blackout
From 5am GMT today, January 18, one of the top-ten most visited websites on the internet is unavailable for 24 hours – if you visit English-language Wikipedia, you’ll just get a page with a text concisely explaining why you can’t…
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Good experience with a mobile Google+ Hangout
One of the most appealing things about Google+ is the Hangouts video conferencing feature. It lets you conduct impromptu video conversations with up to ten people with just your connected computer and a webcam and microphone. Nothing to install or…
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Free webinar on GaggleAmp set for January 31
At FIR, we’ve been talking about GaggleAMP since last autumn. Since we started using GaggleAMP, over 100 of our listeners have joined our Gaggle and, with their help, we have achieved a message reach of over 2.25 million. Based on…
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Can you really control who says what about the 2012 Olympics?
Reuters reports that 70,000 unpaid volunteers recruited for the London Olympics this summer have been warned not to give away breaking news about athletes or disclose the location of politicians and celebrities through online comments or pictures posted on social…
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Trust in Twitter takes a knock
If Twitter says a Twitter account is authentic, you trust it, don’t you? That little tick on a blue background you often see alongside accounts of prominent politicians, celebs and others is your symbol of confidence that the account belongs…