Yahoo bought Summly for $30 million less than a month ago and has already launched its own app using it’s technology. If you don’t know what Summly is then let me explain. It is a summarisation tool created 3 years ago by a teenager named Nick D’Aloisio which uses a natural language algorithm with machine …
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Millions of people come to Twitter every day to connect with the things they care about and find out what’s happening around the world. Photos have long been an important part of these experiences. You are now able to edit and refine your photos, right from Twitter. The latest versions of Twitter for iPhone and …
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Facebook is continuing to update its mobile app to ensure all features that are available on the website are eventually all available on mobile too. The company recently released an update that enabled users to directly ‘Share’ content from the app whilst being on the move. You can now use the Share button on News …
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Instagram, the photo sharing mobile app that is owned by Facebook, has launched web profile pages giving brands a destination page on the platform to share their most recent images with consumers. Facebook completed its $715m (£447m) acquisition of Instagram in September. Up until now users could only access single Instagram photos via desktop rather …
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Pinterest, is a social content sharing service that allows members to “pin” images, videos and other objects to their pinboard which other people can view and share. The company has recently launched apps for both the iPad and Android. The third-most popular social network after Facebook and Twitter also ended its invitation-only policy by opening …
Read more »Facebook’s mobile user base is growing. New report findings showed that 19% of new Facebook fans in August came from mobile, compared with only 5% in May. The survey carried out looked at more than 500 Facebook pages with fan bases of 100,000 or higher. Findings showed that in May, for every 100 new fans, …
Read more »LinkedIn has just launched a new notifications feature which lets users know in real-time when someone interacts with them on the social networking site. This new feature is of a similar format to Facebook’s notifications. LinkedIn has added flag and envelope icons to its header. Upon receiving a new message or other notice, a red circle …
Read more »As of now, a few companies are getting early access to LinkedIn’s new redesigned Company Pages. This means that members will have easier access to the information they require about the companies of interest to them. This gives companies a more powerful way of building relationships with their target audience on LinkedIn. Members will benefit …
Read more »Digital marketing and advertising continued to create very strong interest in 2011. With this in mind, here is a snapshot of those trends, based on information from year-end blog posts, studies and reports. 1. $37.2B E-commerce spending for the November-December 2011 holiday season, representing an increase of 15 percent compared to the same period in …
Read more »Toyota launched a campaign in May 2011 for the 2012 Corolla. Toyota created a mobile program with 2-barcode and augmented reality technology that drew people to the car company’s website and social media properties. The campaign was based around a computer-generated pop star called Hatsune Miku. The carmaker wanted to increase the conversations it was …
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