We’re delighted that Tom Minter, of Socks for Happy People fame, will be co-presenting at our social media presentation on Thursday 25th Feb 2010. Tom has developed one of the most successful brands with a conscience in the UK, and has used social media to its max.
The event will be held at Horizon Scotland, Forres [...]
This week I was delighted to work with Rene and team up with Festivals Edinburgh. We delivered a workshop on social media implementation to a number of affiliated festival managers and organisers.
The venue was the 99 seat Netherbow Theatre, part of the Scottish Storytelling Centre (an amazing venue – intimate and fully equipped).
It [...]
The Guardian newspaper has launched its iPhone app. They’re far from the first: Sky News, the Telegraph and the Independent have all launched applications over the past year.
The Guardian app differentiates itself by charging to download it. A whopping great £2.39, which is the same as nine Daily Stars. And it doesn’t even have much [...]
Sophos has discovered that a high percentage of people will befriend fake Facebook users – and in doing so risk identity fraud.
In the study nearly half of those invited to become a friend of the fake user agreed, potentially giving a fraudster access to personal information, including date of birth.
Our advice – only befriend [...]
We’re delighted to say that our iPhone Application Framework for in-destination iPhone applications has been approved by Apple.
The framework is location aware, offering visitors to a destination an opportunity to find nearby attractions, activities, events, accommodation, special offers, weather…. virtually anything that we can find data for.
It’s all systems go!
Tesco have recently released a free iPhone app. It’s simple but impressive.
It takes the hassle out of finding a Tesco in an unfamilar town by locating and offering directions to the nearest store. Great stuff.
But they’ve gone further. Tesco’s stores are different sizes and have different layouts. So if you urgently need a bottle [...]
An amazing video, which just shows what teamwork can do!
172 students from l’Université du Québec à Montréal and 1 camera produced this feel-good video. Posted under the tags “Wow” and “Fun”!
Socialnomics, who really know what they’re talking about as far as social media is concerned, have issued a new video.
It provides a number of examples of companies achieving returns from social media… but also makes the point that customer focussed companies need to take it seriously. One slide stands out: What is the ROI on [...]
4TM is set to release its first iPhone / iPod Touch application, following the acceptance of Open Brolly onto Apple’s iPhone Developer Program.
Open Brolly, co-owner of 4TM, already has applications in development and is expected to release the first of these in the next few weeks. For 4TM it means that applications can be created [...]
Apple have released a new update to the iPhone’s software – 3.1.2. There’s no new features, but there are bug fixes, so it’s worth getting the update. It’s free to iPhone 3.x software users.
To get the update, connect your phone to your PC / Mac running iTunes and click on ‘Check for Updates”.
