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Friday Social Round Up: LinkedIn Buys SlideShare, Get This Offer, #StarWarsDay
4th May 2012
LinkedIn buys SlideShare Yesterday it was announced that LinkedIn, a social network for professionals, will be purchasing SlideShare for close to $119 million in cash and stocks (reportedly split 45% cash the 55% stocks). “Presentations are one of the… Read more
Friday Social Round Up: Is Social Media Killing Journalism? Facebook Trending Articles and TuPac Rises
20th April 2012
Facebook Trending Articles Facebook is testing a new feature at the moment called ‘Trending Articles’. From screenshots that are circulating the Internet it would appear that Facebook is using social reader apps such as The Guardian and The Huffington… Read more
Friday Social Round Up: Facebook buys Instagram for $1bn, Brighton SEO is back and Titantic Super 3D spoof video
13th April 2012
Facebook buys Instagram for $1bn It’s all go for Instagram at the moment. Last week they rolled out their app onto the Android platform and now this week, on a quiet Easter Monday, the news dropped that Facebook had bought the company for a cool $1bn!… Read more
Friday Social Round Up: Instagram Comes to Android, Skype Swipes at Facebook & Twitter and the Best Hole-in-One Video EVER?
6th April 2012
Instagram comes to Android It’s probably one of THE apps that Android phone users have been waiting for. And this week Instagram became available for download. Just two weeks ago Android users were invited to register to be kept informed of the launch,… Read more
Friday Social Round Up: #Kony2012, Friendsheet and Pinterest Lottery
9th March 2012
#Kony2012 This week my Twitter feed and Facebook News feed have been dominated by #Kony2012. The video, which was uploaded on Monday, is a campaign calling for the arrest of Joseph Kony, who is the leader of the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda…. Read more
Friday Social Round Up:Twitter reaches #500million, Flickrs’ Facelift, New Facebook Ads and Facial Recognition Ads.
24th February 2012
Flickr gets a facelift Recently there has been a huge boom in image based social networks. The growth of sites such as 500px, Instagram and Pinterest, along with a reported 6 billion photos uploaded to Facebook each month, means that Flickr, with it’s… Read more
Friday Social Round Up: Snickers in a twist, Bayern Munich interesting new signing, How Pinteresting.
27th January 2012
Snickers in a twist The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is currently investigating confectionary kings Mars after they used entertainment and sports stars to advertise its Snickers chocolate bar on Twitter. The company paid Katie Price, Rio Ferdinand,… Read more
Friday Social Round Up: SOPA/ PIPA, Anonymous Avenge Megaupload Shut Down, Welcome to the Bark Side, Who Needs a Hug?
20th January 2012
SOPA/PIPA protests On Wednesday an estimated 10,000 websites went dark and over 7 million people signed a Google.com petition against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act), two controversial copyright enforcement bills…. Read more

