Category: Trends
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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…
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The rise of instant mobile video
Being able to record video of something and then share it with lots of people – YouTube, anyone? – isn’t a new idea by any means. It seems there are any number of video sharing services that you can sign…
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Opportunities in live blogging with CoverItLive
This looks very interesting – CoverItLive, a free web service that enables you to live blog an event using a full range of rich media content: text, audio, video, images, etc, that you can embed into your own site. You…
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The cost of Twitter productivity is a bargain
During last summer, there was a spate of mainstream media commentary that social networks like Facebook serve little or no purpose from a business point of view. Much reporting about companies banning Facebook in the workplace. We were even treated…
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My week in media
A meme started doing the rounds among some mainstream media types last August on what some people do and read online. I hadn’t seen it until a post by Drew Benvie included me among those he tagged. So in the…