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View in web browser View text-only version Blackberry version Mobile version Add to safe senders list Stars of the web and royalty star in Code Club video Polly Becker 25 June 2012, 3:14PM Tweet This is very funny. Great job by ad agency Albion here in producing this Code Club video with the likes of Tim Berners-Lee, Facebook’s Joanna Shields and Martha Lane Fox all making an appearance before an interview committee of kids. Blur to debut two new songs via Twitter @gordonmacmillan 25 June 2012, 3:08PM Tweet The newly reformed and back touring band Blur are to debut two new songs live on Twitter via a worldwide video stream on Monday July 2. The two tracks, one called ‘Under The Westway’ and the other ‘The Puritan’, have been written for the band’s upcoming sold-out Hyde Park gig on August 12. Femfresh pulls Facebook page after social media vagina backlash @gordonmacmillan 25 June 2012, 1:57PM Tweet That didn’t take long. Less than a week after Femfresh’s Facebook page came under attack for its use of euphemistic, or infantile words, that women supposedly use instead of the word vagina it has pulled its page from the social network. Financial Times is the biggest newspaper on Google+ as it passes one million followers @gordonmacmillan 25 June 2012, 11:36AM Tweet Someone is doing well on Google+. The Financial Times has quietly become the biggest newspaper brand on Google+ as it passed the one million follower mark. That easily makes it the biggest and fastest growing newspaper on the Google social platform and puts it well ahead of the rest of the international newspaper market. How the automotive industry can beat the summer slump with social media Gideon Lask 25 June 2012, 9:19AM Tweet For many companies this is a time of year to look forward to a meteoric rise in the sale of Pimms, sun cream and BBQs, or, if we are to believe the latest weather reports there are still sales to be had in umbrellas, macs and wellies. Is the Guardian planning to ditch print for digital future sooner rather than later? @gordonmacmillan 25 June 2012, 8:43AM Tweet There are rumours flying around that the Guardian is planning widespread redundancies and possibly even closing all or some of its print editions in a radical move to turn itself into an entirely digital operation in 2013. Four ways brands can leverage the conversation on Twitter @gordonmacmillan 22 June 2012, 10:21AM Tweet Twitter has been making a big splash in Cannes this week after setting up its stall to impress the agency world. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo gave a speech where he stressed that Twitter had no plans to rule out the introduction of large ad formats and said it would instead focus on user experience. The anti-social network? Misery making teens quit Facebook Charlotte Henry 22 June 2012, 9:34AM Tweet Teenagers are increasingly leaving Facebook as the service is making them feel miserable. New research by independent market research agency Conquest has shown that a growing number of 14-24 year olds, the demographic that make up Facebook’s core audience, are becoming dissatisfied and leaving the service. Social Snapshot - Part 5: How social is London? Jonny Rosemont 22 June 2012, 9:12AM Tweet What with The Queen’s Jubilee celebrations now complete, and less than 40 days [HD1] until the start of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, eyes are very much on our great capital city. London tourism will benefit hugely from this interest and the Government's own national tourism agency VisitBritain has invested huge amounts of money to market the UK as a leading holiday destination. Twitter suffers double outage blamed on bug - hack ruled out despite claim @gordonmacmillan 22 June 2012, 8:37AM Tweet Twitter suffered a double outage that rocked Twitter last night as users around the world reported significant down-time and slow service across the website and mobile applications. Twitter blamed the the disruption on a “cascading bug” in one of its infrastructure components and it became ”inaccessible for all web users, and mobile clients were not showing new Tweets”. 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