Archive for facebook
Is fragmenting data the way to beat Google?
The outlines of a serious challenge to Google’s domination have started to take shape in the last few weeks and, rather than being based on someone doing a better search engine (as per many of the previous ones), it is based on fragmenting data on the internet. We’ve already seen Rupert Murdoch’s desire to take [...]
When two hypes colide: Wikipedia and user-generated data
Martin Belam is one of those who has picked up on the story about the number of people contributing to Wikipedia falling away. He makes the reasonable comment: Not entirely convinced by this argument. Yes edit wars and holier-than-thou editors on Wikipedia can be frustrating, but frankly, with over 3 million English language articles already [...]
Controversial direct action hits Facebook
Control Your Info (CYI), a campaign group wanting to raise awareness of online privacy issues, has taken a controversial course of direct action to make a point: Thanks to the nature of the Facebook group system itself, if there is no administrator present, anyone can join and make themselves an administrator. This is what CYI [...]
What drives traffic to news websites?
The Newspaper Marketing Agency’s latest (September) figures (PowerPoint slides) for the sources of web traffic to newspaper websites paint a useful picture of which social media sites really matter – and which don’t. The top ten domains that referred UK traffic to newspapers during the month were: Google Yahoo MSN News.bbc.co.uk Facebook AOL Wikipedia Ask [...]
Social networking in the UK: Facebook soars, Bebo and MySpace drop
Cross-posted from the Mandate blog: The latest Ofcom survey of internet usage is packed full of useful statistics and – even more helpfully – they are based on (a) proper research and (b) people in the UK. Many of the figures quoted are American – or American masquerading as global – and not infrequently are [...]
Jan Moir: the dilemma for the PCC (and what you should say in your complaint)
The reaction to Jan Moir’s article about the death of Stephen Gately has been widespread and swift. Fuelled primarily by Twitter and Facebook, complaints about homophobia flooded in on the Daily Mail, the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) and the firms who were unlucky enough to have their adverts appearing on the page. The headline was changed, [...]
Note for people on the run: don't use Facebook
From the BBC: A man on the run, wanted for fraud by US authorities, inadvertently revealed where he was hiding through a series of extravagant Facebook updates. Cameroon-born Maxi Sopo’s messages made it clear he was living the high life in the Mexican resort of Cancun. It gets better: He also added a former US [...]
