| Labour leader Ed Miliband hit by Twitter trending storm | | @gordonmacmillan | | 06 January 2012, 3:39PM |  Labour leader Ed Miliband has been having a terrible week. First, he was under assault from his from advisor former policy guru Lord Glasman earlier week who said his leadership has not “no strategy, no narrative and little energy”. Further pressure came today from Labour Shadow defence secretary, Jim Murphy, who said that Labour should not simply oppose all government spending cuts.
| | | | Why LinkedIn is better than Twitter | | David Lavenda | | 06 January 2012, 2:51PM |  When things start to feel stale you need to rethink your strategy. And Twitter is no different. This new kid on the block has given its user interface a makeover and while introducing a host of new features (http://fly.twitter.com/). The idea is to make it more persuasive as a social networking platform while also making it more intuitive for the un-initiated to navigate. However, the response has not all been positive. I for one think Twitter will likely fail to hit the mark on both counts.
| | | | Welcome to the digital living room [infographic] | | Polly Becker | | 06 January 2012, 10:28AM |  This great infographic charts the change technology has delivered to our living room from the arrival of the first digital video recorder back in 1999; to how we watch content; where we are getting our online content from; to the arrival of Netflix; and the rise of social TV.
| | | | Anti drugs campaign becomes first ad on Facebook's new Timeline | | @gordonmacmillan | | 06 January 2012, 8:55AM |  A really smart campaign here from Israel’s Anti-Drug Authority that makes great creative use of Facebook Timeline’s design and the way it splits your profile evenly down the middle. It is also appears to be the first brand to use Facebook Timeline for advertising.
| | | | Bonfire brings realtime chat to Twitter | | Sue Keogh | | 05 January 2012, 2:45PM | 
Described as ‘Facebook chat for Twitter’, Bonfire is a new instant messaging tool which allows you to have realtime conversations with your connections. ‘I think we’re changing people’s behaviour a little,’ says co-founder Josh Russell… | | | | Use of LinkedIn CV deemed "inappropriate use of social media" as man forced out | | @gordonmacmillan | | 05 January 2012, 12:06PM |  A human resources manager was forced out of his job after uploading his CV on LinkedIn. Apparently this was deemed an “inappropriate use of social media” by his employer.
John Flexman, 34, says he hacked off his bosses after he clicked one of the standard boxes on LinkedIn to say he was interested in other “career opportunities”. Considering that LinkedIn is a very useful glorified CV membership alone enough should be enough to get us all the boot, no?
| | | | What all brands must do to win consumers' digital hearts and minds | | Maggie Lonergan | | 05 January 2012, 11:02AM |  According to Gartner's latest figures issued earlier this month, Smartphone sales reached 115m units worldwide and account for 26% of all mobile phone sales. It goes without saying that if your customers are adopting smartphones and spending increasing amounts of time in the digital world, then you should be too.
| | | | What inspires a Belgian most? Manchester City to find out via Twitter | | Jennifer Whitehead | | 05 January 2012, 10:07AM |  Vincent Kompany: inspire him on Twitter The football world has a chequered history when it comes to social media, from Joey Barton's rants on Twitter to Rio Ferdinand's eloquent rebuttal of Sepp Blatter's “there's no racism in football”. | | | | Rick Santorum and the problem of online lube | | @gordonmacmillan | | 05 January 2012, 9:25AM |  New darling of the Republican right, Rick Santorum, might have come within eight votes of snatching the Iowa caucus from Mitt Romney and won plaudits in the media, but he has an image problem online where he has been associated with has long been associated with bodily fluids.
| | | | Top 5 Trends in 2012?for the video space | | James Grant | | 05 January 2012, 7:54AM |  As one year starts to morph into another, its time for that perennial favourite - the trend predictions! Now, firstly predictions are a dark art as we all know and secondly, just like Rome, trends aren't going to pop up overnight, they already exist - I am merely predicting which ones I think will come nicely onto the boil in the next 12 months?
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