Only a few weeks ago after a workshop we delivered for the Moray Small Business Club, David created a “Fan” page for the town of Forres on Facebook and barely 3 weeks later there are now more then 400 “Facebookers” a fan of Forres! Not that this surprises me as Forres is indeed a lovely town.
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There have been new warnings about a Facebook “worm” – a virus which works its way through your Facebook contacts and attempts to use social engineering to get them to click on a link which, in turn, infects their computer. 4TM’s team has come across instances of “Koobface” on Facebook in the last week.
The link [...]
National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts has asked for a £1bn venture capital fund for high-tech startups to be created by the government. In addition, it has asked for pubic lending to ensure the construction of the next generation broadband infrastructure – estimated at £15bn.
A brilliant idea.
So far most of the emergency spending [...]
Streamlined Mind brings news of a new social networking gadget: Poken.
You meet someone at a party, or at a business event. Rather than exchanging business cards you can hold your Pokens together and they will exchange your social network pages and photograph.
Targetted initially at students, who presumably won’t remember who they met on a night [...]
Video – both recorded and live – has become an important part of our broadband consumption, alongside broadband intensive applications like virtual environments and gaming. Given the earlier news on Google Friend Connect, we may expect to be able to video conference with other website visitors using Google Talk before too long.
So it’s worrying news [...]
Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect have just been launched and offer a means of integrating social media and social networking elements into a traditional web site.
The two companies have adopted completely different models for adoption.
Google start from behind in this area: they don’t have a successful social media platform, but they do have a [...]
Legal firm Pinsent Masons have advised of an upcoming legal case which could have big implications for both conventional and social media marketing on the werb.
The world’s largest flower delivery firm has sued Marks and Spencer at the High Court in London for sponsoring the word ‘Interflora’ – a trademark – as a search engine [...]
A new application for social media network users – especially Twitter – has been launched.
Called Peoplebrowsr, it offers a new way at looking at Twitter, the popular microblogging network. It also works with LinkedIn, FriendFeed, Flickr and others. Although currently in the alpha phase of development it offers some fantastic new features including:
Quickly see comments [...]
One of 4TM’s favourite applications, Wordpress, has announced that the release of version 2.7 is imminent.
This new release of the blog software is more than just a technical upgrade – it will include a whole new user interface and a rather funky new look.
An important update is improved statistics in the default package, helping you [...]
Hot on the heels of Google SearchWiki comes the formal launch by Google of Friend Connect. It’s a significant move for social media, intended to bridge the gap between traditional web sites and social networking sites.
By adding a small amount of program code to a web site, webmasters will be able to add social media [...]
