Social media has rapidly, and significantly, changed the way we live and interact. On the whole its great; it makes keeping up with family/friends easier, it helps spread news and it allows even the smallest of voices to be heard. However there are those who abuse it and unfortunately, this is the only …
How Obama & Romney Stack Up in Social Media
Yesterday millions of Americans decided that Obama deserves another 4 years in the White House. A big chunk of these voters will, at some point, have expressed their preferred candidate on social media. For the last week Facebook and Twitter have been awash with US election stuff, and that’s just in the …
Google Disavow Tool
Last week Google launched a new tool called the Disavow Links tools. It does exactly what it says on the tin really; allows webmasters to tell Google which inbound links they don’t want the search engine to take into account. It gives webmasters a chance to breath following the recent Google updates that have …
Google Shares Drop Following Big Mistake
Google’s shares tanked yesterday after figures revealing a 20pc fall in profits were accidentally published 4 hours early. The equivalent of almost £14bn was wiped off the company value when the announcement, which was scheduled for release after the markets closed for the day, was released four hours early. Some are arguing that the …
Where the Internet Lives
Google has recently launched a new section on its site entitle ‘Where the Internet Lives’. Its a fair description, although Bing, Yahoo and a few other might have something to say about it. Data centres, network rooms and cooling facilities are all available to see for the first time. They …
Link Trading Game – the Next Monopoly?
If you are after the ultimate geek/SEO pass time then your prayers have been answered. A Majestic SEO powered trading game, linkDAQ, has recently launched that works in a similar way to any stocks & shares investment game. The difference is that the stocks aren’t valued on orders, profits or confidence. They are valued on the …
Winning an Election One FB Like at a Time
Barack Obama has taken to Facebook in an effort to step up his campaign for re-election. His team obviously decided that the social networking site is a good place to recruit followers and ultimately win votes. They aren’t wrong. Through the paid ‘sponsored stories’ feature he was able to gain over one million likes …