Category: Social Networks
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You can try and stop it but the Jinn is out
With the TV news full of images and sounds of serious civil unrest in Egypt, it’s fascinating to see how social media tools and channels – especially Twitter and social networking sites such as Facebook – have been enabling Egyptian…
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Facebook in the mainstream
How Facebook has now become mainstream, almost pervasive, is a recurring thought after seeing three examples of how that is during the course of this weekend. The first example was a hand-written poster outside a used car dealer in Sandhurst…
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Facebook dominates globally
Facebook is the dominant social network around the world according to the latest analysis by Vincenzo Cosenza, director at Digital PR in Rome, Italy, who has been tracking its growth over the past eighteen months or so. Even a cursory…
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The success of the Ealing Tweetup
If you’ve been to a tweetup, you know the kind of thing it typically is: an informal get-together of like-minded people, usually in a pub or other social venue, who sign up on Twtvite to say ‘yes’ or ‘maybe’ they’d…
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Top German firms ban Facebook and Twitter
Most of the 30 blue-chip firms listed in Germany’s DAX stock market index are banning employee use of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter according to a report in the German business magazine Wirtschaftswoche, as reported in the…