Search Engine Optimisation and Social Media
Flickr Redesign Soon after Marissa Mayer became CEO of the search engine, Yahoo in 2012, she was greeted with a Twitter based campaign. The campaign had one simple request, for a Flickr Redesign in the form of tweets such as “please make Flickr awesome again.” Yahoo was quick to respond […]
Social Media And The Romans It is often easy to assume that social media platforms are a modern phenomenon. But the origin of exchanging of media through social networks and to friends and acquaintances can be found much earlier in human history than the advent of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter […]
Claude Debussy Google Doodle The 22nd August 2013 saw Google play homage to what would have been Claude Debussy’s 151th birthday with a Claude Debussy Google Doodle. Debussy is often acknowledged as one of the twentieth century’s most influential composers. Additionally, Debussy is considered a pivotal player in the development […]
Twitter Emergency Alerts The increasingly popular social media platform, Twitter, recently announced that it would be providing its users with a system for Twitter Emergency Alerts. The platform claimed that these alerts could be used to transmit critical information when other more traditional means of communication are unavailable. Twitter stated […]
Facebook Housing Facebook, the world’s most popular social media platform, recently announced its intention to create “a luxurious housing estate next to its California based headquarters.” The new Facebook housing development is set to cost a jaw dropping $120 million or £75 million. Recent reports in the Wall Street Journal, […]
New Bing Logo and “One Microsoft” In the summer of 2013 Microsoft made the announcement that it intended to adjust how Bing operated. It announced that the changes were intended to create a format where both users and developers would be able to tap into a vast wealth of resources […]
Petri Dish Google Doodle On May 31st 2013 a fully animated Doodle was created to celebrate the one hundred and sixty first birthday of the world famous German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri. Born in Barmen, Germany in 1852, Petri received his degree from Berlins Kaiser-Wilhelm Academy for military physicians in […]
Twitter Vine: Six Seconds? In the greater scheme of things six seconds is an incredibly short space of time. Reading this sentence out loud would take a similar amount of time. However it appears to be the brevity of Vine which has attracted it over 40 million individual registered users […]
How To Know If Your Tweet Was Successful It is an excellent sensation when your business page gains favourites and retweets on Twitter but do these factors mean that the tweet in question was a success? If you look at the amount of brands which tweet witty meme after witty […]
According to a recent BlogSpot blog release Google Plus is now the fastest growing social media platform in existence. With active users numbering over 500 million, and over 235 million individuals active on the platform throughout the internet. This interaction is through +1’ing applications in Google Play and across the […]