Posts tagged 'facebook'
Day one of Google’s latest assault on Facebook
Neil Hallmark29 June 2011
Google yesterday announced its latest assault on the world of social and more specifically, Facebook. With Facebook’s massive user base and seemingly relentless desire to bring the entire internet inside Facebook, Google has for some time been looking for a way to address the threat to its bottom line.
The Google+ project, revealed yesterday with little [...]
Supermarkets, cereals and computer manufacturers ahead in latest Kaizo Advocacy Index
Sarah Mayer14 March 2011
Waitrose remains on top while T-Mobile and Orange’s merger reflected in online reputation
New research released today reveals major disparities in the online reputation of UK household brands. The Kaizo Advocacy Index, a bi-annual audit of online reputation, has analysed digital news and social media outlets to rank UK household names including supermarkets, mobile operators, airlines, breakfast [...]
Copyright, the web and the power of social media
Neil Hallmark4 November 2010
There’s an interesting social media crisis unfolding as I write for those interested in such things. A little known, regional food publication from New England is finding out the hard way the speed at which social media can move.
In the past 10 minutes alone I’ve counted hundreds of (negative) comments posted to the magazine’s Facebook [...]
Is the PS3 old, fat and stupid or is this a clever marketing ploy by Sony?
Emma Knott4 March 2010
News spread on Tuesday that a bug similar to Y2K sunk its teeth into Sony’s older ‘fat’ (or if we’re being PC, ‘horizontally challenged’) Playstation 3. As owners prepared themselves for the prospect of losing their saved games and being unable to play online, I couldn’t help but snigger.
Many couldn’t even play in offline mode, leaving frustrated gamers [...]
Closing 6Music gives up BBC’s status as online leader and cultural innovator
Neil Hallmark2 March 2010
Today is a sad day in the Kaizo office. After months of rumours, our favourite digital radio station, 6Music, is to close as a result of a cost cutting exercise by the BBC. Announcing the closure to staff this morning BBC director general, Mark Thompson, revealed that there will be a 25% reduction in spending [...]
