Category: Web

  • 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…

  • UK snow woes

    The hot news in the UK at the moment is about the cold weather. Much of the country – notably Scotland and northeast England – has been gripped in bitter cold and blankets of snow for much of the past…

  • The role of media in the WikiLeaks revelations

    Among the many news events vying for our attention in today’s media – mainstream and social – arguably the revelations from WikiLeaks about confidential communications between US embassies around the world and Washington will capture a majority of that attention…

  • Black Friday comes to the UK

    ‘Black Friday‘ is a term familiar to many in the United States, signifying as it does the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. Traditionally, the day after Thanksgiving is when Christmas shopping starts to ramp up in the US, with…

  • How to understand sentiment from analysing big data

    Because analysis and interpretation of behaviours online is a big part of what my firm WCG does for its living, I pay attention to new ideas and different thinking on how to zero in on what you need from data…