This week, I claimed that companies like ours are the agencies of the future but somebody put me in my place by pointing out that 1000heads is a child of the last century. Day to day work normally gets in the way of reflection, but this made me pause for thought and consider the journey [...]
I am currently attracting more sulky looks than usual in my house. They are coming from my 12-year-old son, who feels that my level of strictness has reached stratospheric heights, and that I am in risk of damaging our relationship permanently. Of course I am not alone in this – every parent the world over [...]
Yesterday, Facebook announced some fairly major changes to its Pages Insights product. The ‘People Talking About’ feature is a major step forward and attempts to value brand engagement in a more meaningful way than a mere ‘Like this’. Facebook’s defining this new feature as stories people create about brand pages and could take the form [...]
This morning, Mashable is reporting the launch of Ticketmaster‘s latest layer of Facebook integration, a move that allows users to see exactly where their Facebook friends will be sitting at various different events and gigs across the globe. Live on over 9000 events across the Ticketmaster website, the new interactive map enables seat tagging, which [...]
My girlfriend and I spent the weekend in Dorset a couple of weeks ago, relaxing with friends. It was lovely. Beaches, barbecues and beer. Bliss. On the Friday evening, we were having a drink in the garden when my friend’s phone buzzed from inside the house. “Oh”, he said returning with the device, “I’ve got three [...]
Today’s headlines: The news is out this morning that literally overnight, Facebook has switched on facial recognition for tagging by default. Typically of the gargantuan social network, the onus is on the user to opt-out of this ‘upgrade’. A few things on this - first, for the super-private, here’s how to do just that – [...]
This gorgeous, gorgeous piece of work from the smart chaps at Intel is one of the most perfect uses of the Facebook social graph API that I have ever seen. Click through to the site, give up virtually all of your Facebook access privileges (we’ll come back to that one later) and just sit back [...]
For most women, conversation with friends is the most influential type there is, because we make friends with people with whom we identify. We value their opinions, ask their advice and exchange views on everything. We will always find ways to talk – but with whom, where and for how long is largely dictated by [...]
We like rewarding our engaged communities. We also like being first… As some of you may know, Facebook made some pretty interesting changes to the structure of their fan pages recently. These included iframe support for tabs; the ability to “like” and comment on other pages as your own page; and notifications when people comment [...]
Trawling through slideshare this morning, I stumbled across this Facebook deck from Ogilvy – Facebook State of The Union While some of the larger numbers within will be of no surprise to the more savvy social media practitioner, what’s interesting here is the idea that Facebook fan pages and ‘likes’ are the ‘new word of [...]
