Privacy in social media – an impossible dream?

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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Can the UK create a Google or Facebook billionaire?

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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Social Media 2.0 – it’s is the message not the medium

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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Happy Birthday Facebook

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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