Despite a report on Yahoo! News asserting that tweeting would be banned from the Royal wedding (the news site claimed that Metropolitan Police were to use signal blocking technology in Westminster Abbey during the proceedings) no such extreme methods were utilised to contain the use of social media by William and Catherine’s wedding guests; the speculation however, was the precursor to the effect that the Royal Wedding had across social media platforms, and the impact of the days events on sites such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as search engine Google; the results were measured across a global scale.

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Internet giants AOL have announced that they will be making almost one thousand redundancies over the next few months in a new bid to restructure their company and reduce turnover. (more…)

From May 25th 2011 a revised European Framework on electronic communications will require marketers to obtain the consent of visitors to their website, in order to store and retrieve data usage information from a users computer. (more…)

According to Lord West, the ex-minister for cyber security, the government needs to take much stricter action when it comes to ISP providers looking at confidential e-mails without the permission of the author. (more…)

Barack Obama, the US President, recently held a meeting with key players from across the world of technology, the web and SEO. (more…)

An article published in FastCompany.com has praised LinkedIn for the way in which it has enabled its members to utilise the site as a successful career database, assisting members to develop their professional contacts and benefit from a wide range of networking opportunities, online. (more…)

New plans devised by the UK police force to provide governance over rogue web domains are to be released and debated in public, news agencies have revealed this week. (more…)

A feature writer for online experts SEOMoz has argued that the morality of SEO activities could be in question, for the way in which it influences the content delivered to the key search engines as an advertising mechanism. (more…)

Following a controversial strategy publicised by Google and Verizon to alter internet access for UK customers, an industry body has been meeting to discuss the future of open internet. (more…)

Jordan, in a surprise bid to increase the productivity of its public sector workers has prevented them from accessing over fifty websites during office hours. The move comes after research was undertaken which revealed that each individual was wasting up to three hours online, daily. (more…)

WikiLeaks, the controversial website which acts as a multi-jurisdictional public service designed to protect whistleblowers, has hit the news again following the publication of a document about the war in Afghanistan. (more…)

Over the past few months there has been a lot of debate about the newspapers in the UK. As people who work within social media, we need to keep savvy about what is going on around us, and make sure we stay abreast of new developments and technologies. This means that, like any other company, we need access to high-quality news.
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This has been the way the wind has been blowing for a few years now, with websites and online arms of newspapers improving all the time and circulations of traditional newspapers dropping. Now, however, it would appear to be official. A survey conducted by the Research Centre for the People and the Press, an arm of the Pew Charitable Trust, has revealed that use of Internet news sources has eclipses use of traditional print media for the first time.
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