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Google goes out-of-the-box with Google TV

Google TV is a new experience for television that combines the TV that you already know with the freedom and power of the Internet.
It’s Google’s new proposition to take over TV after having partnered up with Logitech, Intel and Sony. The newly launched web-enabled TV will feature a dashboard including a Google-style search box [...]

Posted in Media News on May 21st, 2010

Adobe stops building Flash apps for Apple

Looks like Steve Jobs isn’t Flash’s only rival. Just recently we heard him criticize the multimedia platform by saying it was not fit for an era of smartphones and touchscreen devices.
The open letter entitled Thoughts on Flash basically addressed all the reasons why Adobe Flash was not running on either the iPod, iPad, iPhone or [...]

Posted in Media News on May 4th, 2010

Facebook and Twitter rescue volcano-stranded travellers

Question: What happens when there’s chaos at the airports, planes get grounded and Icelandic volcanic ash invades airspace?
Answer: People run to Facebook & Twitter to keep up with the latest updates and to share their stories!
Truth is, both Twitter and Facebook are proving to be the heroes in this story turned nightmare for many.
According to [...]

Posted in Media News on April 19th, 2010

Bing goes more social with Bing Social Search

The computer software company recently announced rolling out social search features to a small selection of users in the U.S. which gives them better relevance with real-time social results from the Twitter community.
Last November, Bing announced the launch of bing.com/twitter which pulls in real-time content from the Twitter community stream.
The difference between this and the [...]

Posted in Media News on April 14th, 2010

Facebook gets the highest visitor return rate

The more the …stickier.
A report from eMarketer shows that between Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, Facebook users have are most likely to return and visit the platform more repeatedly over time.
According to the study, 53% of respondents claim to use Facebook more often than six months ago, closely followed by 43% of Twitter users [...]

Posted in Media News on April 6th, 2010

Facebook Community Pages: beloved by users, despised by brand managers

Facebook has recently come up with its solution to unofficial Facebook Pages, Community Pages.
The new feature has just been launched in order to prevent ‘unofficial’ organizations, entities and businesses to create Pages on their own without the actual consent from the official representatives of these entities.
As an agency, we are often required to create official [...]

Posted in Media News on April 2nd, 2010

Visualising the Top 100 biggest websites

The BBC just created this treemap visualization to show the Internet’s biggest, most popular and most active sites as measured by Nielsen. The data collected by the company covers the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Brazil, US and Australia.
In this particular infographic, the BBC uses a tree map to represent the top 100 websites, [...]

Posted in Media News on March 29th, 2010

Take action and support the planet with Earth Hour!

Earth Hour is almost here!
As you may have already heard, the WWF is trying to raise as much awareness as possible regarding climate change issues.
For this, they’ve created Earth Hour, which started back in 2007 in Sydney, Australia when 2.2 million homes and businesses turned their lights off for one hour to make their stand [...]

Posted in Media News on March 26th, 2010

Will print media soon disappear?

(image credit:damnpeskyindiekid.com)

A week has passed since the Social Media World Forum in London and although we’ve already written about the roundup of events and activites during this two-day social media conference, I wanted to go back and briefly discuss a particular presentation and topic which I thought were quite interesting.
The presentation was dubbed The Future [...]

Posted in Media News on March 22nd, 2010

YouTube for the hearing impaired

Google’s user-generated video website, YouTube, will make available automatic speech recognition captioning for its video selection.
This new service could be revolutionary since it will open up a huge share of its content to people who are hearing-impaired, and will also lead to creating a network of videos that could be subtitled between many languages.
comScore’s January [...]

Posted in Media News on March 5th, 2010
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