Getting on the ‘SOPA box’

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

Online media giants Google, Wikipedia, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have staged a joint protest against the proposed Stop Online Piracy and Protect Intellectual Property Acts, taking out a full page ad in the US national press and variously joining Wikipedia in its ‘day of darkness.’ My immediate reaction upon hearing ...

Twit T’Blue

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

                    Although I don’t tweet what I’m having for breakfast, lunch and dinner, Twitter is (embarrassingly) the first thing I look at in the morning and last thing I check at night. Amid all of the brilliant TV broadcast during the Christmas break, I was most looking forward to ITV2’s ‘Tweet ...

Facebook’s fix on us all

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

  ‘Not on Facebook? It still has a fix on you’ is the headline that’s grabbed my attention this week. It was a piece about how the world’s biggest social network is building-up data about people who haven’t even signed-up yet. There were also some ‘shocking’ facts about existing users – apparently, ...

Not just a bunch of Muppets

Monday, October 3rd, 2011

Every day brings another great example of a social media campaign that makes you sit back in your chair and think: ‘Damn, I wish I’d thought of that’. The latest offering that’s grabbed my attention comes from the team at The Muppets Studio. Originally created by Jim Henson in 1955, The ...

A chance to ‘check’ out Burberry’s new collection

Monday, September 19th, 2011

  Twitter is all of a flutter today with the latest announcement from Brit-brand Burberry. The fashion label is offering its Twitter followers a virtual backstage pass that means they’ll clap eyes on the collection before the A-listers in the front row. Live-streaming of fashion shows has been popular for the past ...