Tag: Social Media
'The Social Network' conquers Hollywood with three Oscars
The Facebook film, 'The Social Network' won three awards at this weekend's Oscar ceremony. While it was probably no surprise it lost out to The King's Speech for Best Picture, The Social Network took home gongs for Best Film…
Disney tucks into social media world by buying pre-teen network Togetherville
The Magic Kingdom is now coming to the world of social media as Disney has bought Togetherville, TechCrunch has confirmed. This is a social network for kids under the age of ten, where parents sign up their children to…
Will social media market listings trigger a new dot-com bubble?
The Chinese Facebook-equivalent, Renren, will test appetites for social media listings with plans to float on the stockmarket. The most popular social network in China, Renren.com could be valued at up to $500 million, should plans to list in…
Struggle to measure return of social media to end this year, brands hope
They understand they need to get involved in social media, but it comes to measuring efficiency, so far brands have had no choice but just to hope for the best. This could all change this year, according to a…
Stop Drunken Updates With The Social Media Sobriety Test
We have all come home from a big night out and started drunkenly tweeting or updating Facebook, only to regret it in the morning. In an effort to put an end to those late night bouts of drunken social…
The Week in Social Media – 15/10/10 – tweeting police, Facebook and Skoda and more
Sutro Digital brings you this week's social media news in handy video format. Among this week's highlights are Manchester bobbies on the tweet and Skype integration with Facebook….
CERN completes first proton smash
Twitter has been a'buzzing this morning with news of the Large Hadron Collider's first full day of full-pelt collisions. LHC was trending hard, as everyone was getting in on the act as CERN tweeted its way to the full…
BBC spends license-fee on Facebook lessons for staff
The BBC is said to be spending thousands and thousands of license-fee payer's money by sending their staff on courses teaching how to use social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, The Sun newspaper has revealed. It's enraged not only…
Can you make money out of Twitter? Well Dell can
The money is really starting to roll in from Dell's twittering exploits. In June the PC firm revealed that they had made $3 million in cold hard cash from Twitter, but in a briefing yesterday revealed that that figure had…
How social media and consumer electronics changed the world
It is sometimes easy to forget how much social media (blogs, social networking) and consumer electronics have changed the world in the last few years, but this video puts it in some kind of perspective.
