Archive : Social Media

One of the elements of Google+ I enjoy is people I follow like to talk about what’s currently happening with Google+. In the past few days, I’ve seen more discussions taking place over the fact Google is continuing to close accounts for businesses, organisations and music bands. From the outset of Google+ creation – we were told not to create business accounts, and if you have one [...]

Twitter – The Adolescent Twitter is like an adolescent child. Talking none stop to anyone and everyone who will listen. Mostly, the content is garbled and non-descriptive. All the content is repeated over and over again until a point the original message is lost in translation. What’s popular or trending isn’t popular or trendy. It’s quick, simple and no attention span required. Facebook [...]

We are all aware that Geolocation is becoming big business for many mainstream businesses. If you cannot be found on Facebook Places, Foursquare or Gowalla you are behind the times. I understand Twitter is playing with the idea of utilizing their geolocation tags for business purposes. These services offer local businesses huge potential revenue streams, and the ability to offer locational discounts, [...]

Facebook Places has now been released in the US only and I’ve had a little time to play around with Facebook’s latest addition to its services. Firstly, Places can only be accessed via the Facebook iphone app and Facebook plans to release apps for other platforms including Android and Blackberry. Alternatively, you can access places via a brower at touch.facebook.com. There are three [...]

The media are reporting that Facebook will be making an announcement on Wednesday (tomorrow) detailing their location service. So what will this service look like, and how will we use it? This has been an anticipated move by Facebook for some time now, and I personally am surprised it has taken them so long to jump on the geographical location service, which is already provided by Google Buzz, [...]

This is relatively simple process to follow; however, it does only apply to certain individuals. If you are a celebrity, you can verify your account. At this time Twitter isn’t verifying businesses, organisations or charities. Please visit Twitter’s help page for more information by clicking here. From this point you can request verification.

Twitter is a very useful tool to driving traffic to your web site, and in this article I discuss ways to get your Tweets Retweeted. I suspect that the top search engines are spidering peoples tweets, not necessarly to index or rank them, but using them to find content on the web very quickly. A popular post or article can be tweeted some several hours prior to it getting linked too. Search engines [...]

Below is a collection of social media products that I have gathered from around the web, which you may find in any geeks house. I appreciate this is list isn’t exclusive, and I am sure there are many more products available. If you do come across an item that is worth sharing, please do not to contact me and I’ll include it in this list. 1. Twitter Earrings: Twitter lovers can show [...]