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Online Advertising Regulation – What does it mean for SEO

2 Comments 02 September 2010

News that the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) will be given powers to regulate internet advertising from March 2011 was something of a surprise and also opens a massive can of worms across the entire internet. It isn’t yet clear how they intend to police internet advertising, but there are big hints that their remit will [...]

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What’s So Wrong With Facebook Places?

12 Comments 26 August 2010

Facebook, in what could be another potential degradation of its users privacy launched a new enhancement last week whereby those users who Facebook on their iPhone will be able to use their phone to broadcast their location to their friends. Facebook Places works using GPS equipped iPhones, it works out your location and presents you [...]

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Lionsgate With Genius Social Media Campaign

8 Comments 20 August 2010

Just a short one from me today posting something that I am sure a lot of you that are on the ball have actually seen already. Lionsgate have recently been using the infamous Chatroulette to promote their upcoming movie The Last Exorcism and I came across this yesterday when doing my rounds of the net. [...]

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Google Gearing Up For Social Media War With Facebook

17 Comments 18 August 2010

Over the last couple of months Google has been preparing to launch their own social networking platform; rumoured to be called Google Me. Whilst Google have already tried (and failed) to add a social media element to their plethora of online utilities in the past, their nearest rival Facebook probably have a little more to [...]

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Zuckerberg Gets Hold Of Another 18 Social Media Patents

9 Comments 10 August 2010

Mark Zuckerberg has quickly risen to become one of the most well known, influential names in social networking. But the Facebook CEO has taken one more step, or rather 18 more, to becoming even more powerful in the social media industry, after purchasing 18 important social networking patents from the former innovator Friendster. The patents, [...]

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Yet More Social Media Privacy Issues From Facebook

25 Comments 02 August 2010

It seems as though Facebook and personal privacy issues are never too far apart, with this week  being no different as a 2.5GB database containing names and public information on every searchable Facebook user appeared on torrent network site Bit Torrent. Image taken from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcopako/2391747442/ Whilst Facebook are being quick to point out that the [...]

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Graduate Employment

28 Comments 26 July 2010

Joe Johnson has been with us as part of a Wired Sussex internship programme.  Here are his thoughts on life, Fresh Egg, Wired Sussex and the plight of the graduate…. Experience I suppose like many graduates, after four years at Uni resulting in  two degrees, I naively assumed that  a £30k + media role was [...]

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Even The Queen Does Social Media

91 Comments 26 July 2010

The Queen is no stranger to social media; last July the Queen launched her twitter account, with a YouTube channel coming a few months later. Now HRH has decided to add a Flickr account to the list, under the name The British Monarchy. Hundreds of images have been uploaded across 30 sets; with the Latest [...]

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