January 31st, 2012
The issue of privacy in social media is becoming a very ‘hot’ topic. Recently, emails have been whizzing around about LinkedIn changing their terms and conditions so that – unless you opt out – people could be used in their adverts without their knowledge.
Then yesterday this message came from Google:
“We’re getting rid of over 60 different privacy [...]
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May 22nd, 2011
At the recent Google Zeitgeist conference in Hertfordshire, UK Chancellor George Osborne announced that schoolchildren will be taught to design apps for smartphones through a deal with Blackberry.
While this is a laudable objective, however creative the people – and the UK’s techies are highly creative – being clever is not enough.
What young entrepreneurs need is cash to start and grow businesses – something the UK banks are strangely reluctant to provide, in spite of threats by the Government if the High Street banks do not increase their lending.
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March 18th, 2010
Social Media appears to be now stabilising as a Marketing channel with the six key players e.g. Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter consolidating their position in the marketplace.
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February 4th, 2009
Social media site Facebook is 5 years old today. Facebook has taken the world by storm and offers far more than just a personal networking tool.
Politicans are quickly learning the value of Facebook. Barack Obama understood the importance of social media and his use of the medium had a huge impact on the race to [...]
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