Archive for December, 2010

It’s hardly surprising to learn that UK web users are turning to social networking and social media more and more often and more frequently than ever before. Such is the revelation from Experian Hitwise anyway, the online metric measurement and analysis company. Roughly 13.5% of all UK Internet website visits are to social networks and [...]

Facebook and Google have been squaring up to one another for some time now. While it could be argued that the two don’t truly and directly compete with one another in any specific area, the boundaries between social and search have been blurred so much in recent months that many would now argue that they [...]

Bing has been making some decent strides in the worlds of search and SEO lately. It’s undergone various rebranding exercises but seems to have at least settled on Bing as being the search brand it will push. New tools have been added to make the webmaster’s life easier, including a useful tool that lets you [...]

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If you’re a regular Facebook user or you can’t stay away from Twitter then you can take heart, at least according to some researchers, from the fact that your brain may turn out to be larger than the average brain. In reality, the information is based on real life social networks and measures the size [...]

Select users from across the world had problems accessing Facebook yesterday and, as now seems to be the standard for such cases, users who were angry about the problem turned their attention to Twitter in order to “report” their problems. It’s quite possibly a sign of just how big a part of peoples’ lives Facebook [...]