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View in web browser View text-only version Blackberry version Mobile version Add to safe senders list Los Angeles Times latest to put up a paywall @gordonmacmillan 27 February 2012, 4:17PM The Los Angeles Times is to become the latest major online newspaper to put up a paywall. It announced its plans at the weekend and says it will begin charging from next week. Livingstone team launches "chicken feed" site as it presses attack on Boris @gordonmacmillan 27 February 2012, 12:46PM Ken Livingstone’s team has launched a new website today as Labour presses its attack on Conservative Boris Johnson and his second job with the Daily Telegraph, which pays him £250,000 a year. Combined with his job as London Mayor earns him £400,000 a year. 60 seconds in social media [infographic] Polly Becker 27 February 2012, 11:37AM Nicholas Cage would have trouble driving this lot away. Every minute in social media there are millions of interactions taking place - they happen on Pinterest, Foursquare, Flickr, Tagged, LinkedIn,StumbleUpon, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube as detailed by this nice infographic here detailing what can happen in a mere 60 seconds in social media. Social Snapshot: UK retail and social media (Part 2: Toys) Jonny Rosemont 27 February 2012, 10:15AM Here's the second snapshot in our sector-by-sector examination of how UK brands are performing in terms of social media. This chapter sees us move away from casual outdoor fashion that we wrote about last time to look at a different end of the retail spectrum… toy shops. Social media doesn't matter in politics @gordonmacmillan 27 February 2012, 9:42AM Interesting piece in Ad Age arguing that social media in politics has no real impact on the outcome. It points in part to research saying that “if no one under the age of 30 had voted, Obama would have won every state he carried with the exception of two” as evidence that it wasn’t the social media savvy who got the president elected, but an older population of Democrats and independents who were galvanised. And the Oscar goes to?the winners according to social media buzz @gordonmacmillan 24 February 2012, 12:47PM Okay so the other day we had the social media predictions for the Brit Awards and they largely proved to be more hit than miss. Here by way of the Cake Group we have, according to the volume of positive mentions on social media, the winners of this weekend’s Oscars. There’s some interesting unexpected results here. Storify comes to the iPad James Walters 24 February 2012, 12:20PM Storify, the excellent web app that lets you chart an event using tweets, pictures and videos, has arrived on the iPad. The Storify iPad app lets you collect content from sites including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube and edit it into a stunning sequence. Tweeting too much is unhealthy, says Twitter's Biz Stone @gordonmacmillan 24 February 2012, 11:59AM The Daily Mail has described it as Twitter’s Gerard Ratner moment. You remember him, the cheap jewellry guy who stood up and said his products were crap, and then watched his business gone the toilet. Could Fringe be the first TV show saved by a hashtag? @gordonmacmillan 24 February 2012, 11:14AM Fans of the US science fiction show Fringe, which airs on Sky One in the UK, have launched a social media campaign to save the show from cancellation. The X-Files style Fox produced show in the US, which centres on an FBI unit investigating unexplained or “fringe” events, is currently in its fourth season, but faces the threat of cancellation. Six presentations from Search Engine Strategies Andrew Girdwood 24 February 2012, 10:30AM Search Engine Strategies is in London this week. The conference is perhaps the oldest and most established in the industry. SES London has evolved in such a way that it is largely agency presentations to an audience of agencies. This year, however, I noticed an increase in the number of in-house SEO teams in attendance and that is a welcome development. Latest jobs Digital Account Manager - Ad Sales - Delivery Team - London Recruiter Future Publishing Salary £ competitive with excellent benefits Location London Senior Account Manager Recruiter iCrossing UK Ltd Salary Circa £35k Location London Content Manager (Internal Comms) Recruiter Tarsh Lazare Marketing Recruitment Salary £22,000 - £28,000 Location Wiltshire Digital PR Executive Recruiter The Camping and Caravanning Club Salary C£24K + benefits Location Based at Coventry Search and Affiliate Marketing Manager Recruiter Everything Everywhere Salary Competitive + Bonus + Benefits Location London Digital Planner Recruiter Dynamic New Alliances Salary £35-45K Location London Manage my bulletins Unsubscribe from bulletin © Haymarket 1957 - 2010 All rights reserved News Jobs Blogs & Forums Tenders