Articles in Social Media News
There may be light at the end of the tunnel for JPG Magazine, which at the beginning of the year announced it would be closing within days. The popular photography publication built entirely around high …
This is serious. The UK government plans to introduce legislation around retaining email data and rating online content, which if implemented could seriously stifle innovation on the web, not to mention putting a cramp in …
Back in November 2008, we brought you news of BreakingNewsOn, a Twitter-based news alert service known for breaking news before mainstream channels (it famously once broke news of a bus crash even before the emergency …
Cisco Systems, traditionally known for its networking infrastructure products, is starting to make waves in the social networking space, with its launch of Eos, a hosted software platform targeted at big media companies who want …
Amid the state of upheaval that the newspaper publishing industry currently finds itself, Jack Schafer has written a fascinating piece looking at how newspapers’ tried to invent the web with their take-up of new media …
First phishers, now hackers — the Twitter security concern got a little scarier yesterday, with the news that 33 high profile accounts, including those of Britney Spears and Barack Obama, were hacked. Twitter is acting …
It’s a new year, and as people bid adieu to 2008 and bienvenue to 2009, there’s a fair bit of social media review, round-up and prediction going on. Forrester’s Jeremiah Owyang and Josh Bernoff review …
Xing, the social network for professionals that has quite a lot of traction in Europe, has announced its purchase of socialMedian, a social news aggregator startup which came out of private beta just a few …
Michael Arrington has thrown a major wobbly over the misuse of PR embargoes and in a related stream of barbed vitriol, has begun publicly denouncing the attention-seeking behaviour bordering on spamming tactics employed by some …
Twitter’s looking for a business product manager. Michael Arrington at TechCrunch sees it as the first step in Twitter’s plan to ramp up revenue, adding:
“Most startups in this position simply sell themselves before it becomes …
