Radian6 a social media monitoring and engagement tool (recently acquired by web-based CRM software provider SalesForce) provides clients with customised solutions, to help them gather information that is published about their products or their brand on social networking sites.   (more…)

Salesforce.com announced today that they have agreed the acquisition of Radian6, for the value of £203m. (more…)

The US Military are developing software that enables the use of social media sites, in a covert operation, to create fake online profiles to distribute pro-American propaganda.
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UKOM, the UK Online Measurement Company have published a report which has demonstrated that internet usage across the UK has increased by over sixty-five percent in the last three years. (more…)

North Korea has always been notoriously secretive when it comes to permitting residents within the country to communicate through digital media. (more…)

A new study undertaken by Nielsen Online, the US company which monitors global Internet activity, suggests that online gaming is the biggest waste of time in the States. (more…)

MySpace has always been pitted against Facebook when it comes to vying for members. As the two most popular social networking sites, there has been a healthy rivalry between them since they were launched. However, the distance between Facebook and MySpace has been increasing, as the popularity of MySpace diminishes. (more…)

Imagine an internet site with hardly any rules, direct chat and video access to millions of people all over the web, and no guidelines, governance or policies. Sounds like anarchy, right? Welcome to Chatroulette. It’s available right now, and it’s becoming the greatest craze to sweep the web in a very long time. (more…)

Blizzard, the firm behind ‘World of Warcraft’ have sparked controversy recently, following an announcement that online gamers who use their service would have to sign in and play using their real names. The decision was made as a result of some heated online debates and flame wars, which prompted the game manufacturer to crack down on anonymity.
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Recent reports on net usage and uptake suggest that a new wave of ‘Silver Surfers’ (people over the age of fifty who use the web) has increased dramatically within the past twelve months. Almost two million new internet users have joined the UK online community, and estimates suggest that over half of these users are made up of people aged fifty and over.
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Following yesterday’s tragic trouncing of the England football team against Germany, technology buffs are calling for a rethink on Fifa’s refusal to use goal-line technology. The match, which saw England getting beaten 4-1, highlighted the fact that Fifa, football’s governing body, is reluctant to adopt gadgets on the pitch to determine whether goals should be allowed to be counted. (more…)

The power of audio download was proven over Christmas last year, when Rage Against The Machine got the number one spot in the music charts following a Facebook campaign encouraging users to download their track ‘Killing in the Name of’, in protest against reality television. (more…)

One of the main changes expected from the Caffeine update will be the importance given to social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter etc. in the rankings. This means that keyword-rich Facebook pages or social media blog posts will start to get decent ranking, as well as traditional web pages. (more…)

Search engine optimisation requires that you complete the process in the most beneficial way to get the best page rankings. There are numerous ways that your page rank can suffer as a result of using improper techniques. Automated bookmarking may seem like a great way to get your articles out into the world for social media sites, but there are some downsides to the process. (more…)