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This Thursday (7 March 2013) marks the sixteenth year of World Book Day, a worldwide celebration of books and reading observed in over 100 countries across the globe. One of the day’s key aims is to encourage children to read more and, perhaps most… Read more

Big brand hacking On Monday, Burger King was subjected to a ridiculous and embarrassing hacking on Twitter. Its profile picture was changed to a McDonald’s logo and its bio declared “Just got sold to McDonald’s because the whopper flopped”. However,… Read more

“Happy gay marriage” On Tuesday 5 February, MPs voted in support of equal marriage, 40 years after Britain’s first gay rights march. This is a historic moment for Britain and a further move away from state-sanctioned prejudice. It was greeted with… Read more

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

Throughout 2012, Fresh Egg has produced and published a number of informative ebooks as part of a digital marketing series incorporating the disciplines of social media, seo and content. For Christmas, we’ve collated the chapters into three special,… Read more

MySpace returns What goes around comes around again. At least Justin Timberlake must be hoping in the case of his social network MySpace, which relaunched this week in beta format. The former world leader of social networks has seen members slump to less… 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