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How to set up & grow your brands social homes online

by Simon on July 15, 2011 in Social Media, Web Thoughts with No comments

So you have been tasked to take control of your brands social media properties online. You need to research Facebook Pages, Twitter profiles, LinkedIn Company Pages and now you find out that Google is launching Google+ business profiles… All these ‘social homes’ have different layouts, design guidelines and audiences. This blog contains the best pieces of advice online on setting up, maintaining and growing these properties into wonderful thriving, social mansions. Continue reading →

Google’s +1 doesn’t add up for me…

by Simon on April 2, 2011 in Web Thoughts with No comments
Google +1

The web is buzzing with Google’s new baby +1 (pronouned plus one – if you had any doubt!). Google are describing it as ‘the right recommendations right when you want them’ which I think sounds like a really attractive proposition. I’ve just spent a while pondering the whole +1 idea and for me it’s just not adding up…
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So Google, what’s next?

by Simon on November 23, 2010 in E-Mail, Social Media, Web Thoughts with No comments

At the end of last week I was lucky enought to be invited up to Manchester to attend an event Google were running. The speakers ranged from UK MD Matt Brittin to YouTube star and self-made cosmetics siren Lauren Luke.
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Friday Five – Michael Jackson Edition 03/07/2009

by Simon on July 3, 2009 in Web Thoughts with No comments

The sad passing of music legend Michael Jackson saw some very interesting online impacts from traffic surges on social media sites, through to chart topping sales of digital downloads. As the dust begins to settle a number of sites have looked at the impact it had online:

  • Social media gurus FreshNetworks look at the rise of Flash Mobs to celebrate the life and music of MJ. Some great YouTube clips on there.

  • Times Online highlights the power of Twitter for real-time news (Every article like this must make Google cringe).

  • Twitter and Facebook had massive usage increases as the news spread, the Tech Blog at the LA Times looks at the numbers.

  • The LA Times looks back at how gossip website TMZ stole the limelight from TV news channels all over the world.

  • TechCrunch reports that the web as a whole struggled to deliver information as everyone rushed online to get the news.

Google Chrome

by Simon on September 4, 2008 in Web Thoughts with No comments

Just when it appeared that the browser wars had a stable number of competitors, a huge new giant one appears on the horizon – Google Chrome. Using a rendering engine based on a combination of Safari’s Webkit and Firefox’s Gecko, Google Chrome is a super-fast new way of surfing. At the heart of this new browser is a JavaScript virtual machine, simply named V8 that claims to be hugely faster than anything else currently available.

Amazingly the Chrome project has been under-wraps since 2006 and after two-years of beavering away the team released their first Beta. First impressions have been extremely positive, with the Google T&C’s being the only bone of contention. Google quickly swept away this negative press by posting an updated version and only time will tell what kind of market share they can expect. Posting a link from their homepage certainly won’t do any harm!