96 post(s) written by Nazilla Allahiary.

It’s time for Vine This week, Twitter released a standalone video sharing app for the iPhone called Vine. The app allows users to tweet six second clips that play on a loop, and has proved to be really popular in its first week. Indeed, it has already… Read more

Facebook 20% rule Completely over shadowed by the Graph Search announcement last week, Facebook also launched a 20% text rule. This refers to the new guidelines regarding brand cover photos and promoted posts. This rule means that images used for cover… Read more

Facebook announce Graph Search We published a post about Graph Search after the announcement was made on Tuesday, but there is still a lot to say about what this could mean: Facebook’s search function is notably poor, and Graph Search addresses this… Read more

Facebook mystery conference Facebook has announced that it is holding a mystery conference on Tuesday 15 January. This has prompted an increase in Facebook stock to over $30 for the first time since it was released. Facebook does not usually hold major… Read more

Facebook New Year messaging tool In the run up to New Year’s celebrations, Facebook created a Midnight Message Delivery app that allowed members to write private messages to their friends and family. These would be delivered to the recipient at midnight… Read more

Google+ Communities This morning we arrived at work to see that Google+ has launched its new ‘Communities’ section. Google’s senior VP of engineering, Vic Gundotra, announced the new feature. Communities are basically groups dedicated to specific… Read more

eBay pop-up shop Today eBay will be opening up an eBay Social Shopping pop-up shop in Covent Garden, which will remain open until Sunday the 2nd of December. There will be in-store screens showing live data highlighting products that people are recommending… Read more

#Susanalbumparty Susan Boyle has launched another album – Party – and, in order to promote it, her PR team decided to use the hashtag #susanalbumparty (read “Susan Album Party”). This is apparently an honest mistake. I’m sceptical: why is there… Read more

Pinterest business profiles This week saw the launch of Pinterest business accounts. This allows the account to use the brand name rather than a first name and last name. The account can be verified via the website verification process. Companies that… Read more