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View in web browser View text-only version Blackberry version Mobile version Add to safe senders list Eric Schmidt's Waywire social video startup aims to engage teens online 02 July 2012, 2:25PM Tweet Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt has teamed up with Cory Booker, aka the frenetic Twitter super-user and mayor of Newark, to create Waywire, which is described as “a social video site for do-gooders from the millennial generation”. How social media became so crucial to the left in British politics 02 July 2012, 2:15PM Tweet This years Netroots UK conference was held in the TUC’s rather swanky Congress House at the weekend, and was a platform for various left wing digital activists to hear speakers, receive training, and exchange e-campaigning tips. The iPhone was 5 years old last week! 02 July 2012, 12:52PM Tweet My daughter was only 2 when the iPhone arrived. It's something she has grown up with around her, and her first phone is bound to be a Smartphone. Predictive texting and keys with 3 letters are alien to her, yet a QWERTY touch-screen is just so intuitive. She asks to borrow my iPhone and all she asks nowadays is "Dad, what's your iTunes password?" and "Dad, why can't I watch this TV programme as we drive along?" She expects access everywhere and, with 4G coming, it shouldn't be too long before she can. How the web is killing creativity, by suggesting it is easy... 02 July 2012, 11:16AM Tweet The web has had a massive positive impact on our capacity to collaborate and produce. The web allows us to communicate quickly and efficiently with others – ideas can be crowd sourced across communities and then brought to market quickly and efficiently with the aid of cloud computing. Sixty percent of companies will monitor employee social media use by 2015 02 July 2012, 9:44AM Tweet Employee use of social media is becoming a real area of concern for CEOs. This is because the informal nature of social media means employees do, on occasion, post inadvertent remarks that can cause far-reaching damage to a company's brand. Five things high street banks can learn from NatWest's handling of its "technical glitch" crisis 02 July 2012, 9:20AM Tweet It's fair to say that June wasn't the best month for NatWest. The problems for them, and the rest of the Royal Bank of Scotland banking group, started on the evening of the 19th when a standard upgrade to the software used by the bank for the scheduling of payments went wrong. Twitter now generating the majority of its ad revenue from mobile 29 June 2012, 3:11PM Tweet A report in the Wall Street Journal that says on most days “Twitter is now generating the majority of its revenue from ads shown to its users on mobile” rather than from ads on its Twitter.com website. As Yammer is bought out by Microsoft, are we a step closer to the end of email? 29 June 2012, 11:09AM Tweet This week saw the much anticipated buyout of the so-called 'Facebook for the workplace', Yammer, by Microsoft for $1bn first reported two weeks ago. There have been suggestions that the software giant will integrate the four year old social network into its Office suite. This move comes after research from comScore revealed that email use among 12-17 year olds dropped by 24% during 2011, with an overall fall in webmail usage of 6% so it would appear that Microsoft is covering itself for the possible demise of email in the near future. Happy 5th birthday iPhone - nearly half of us now own a smartphone 29 June 2012, 10:21AM Tweet It’s the Apple iPhone’s 5th Birthday today. That’s five years and 250 million handsets sold and shows no sign of slowing up as new research shows it continues to dominate the smartphone market. Apple iPhones are owned by 19% of smartphone users compared with 15% owning an Android phone and 11% owning a Blackberry, which today announced a delay to its latest phone. As Word Magazine closes: An alternative publishing model for @thewordmagazine - try the @blzzrd approach 29 June 2012, 9:45AM Tweet To be honest I was never much of a Word Magazine reader. Still I am very sad that the publishers have now called it a day. As David Hepworth said this morning; “In the nine years since the magazine launched there have been dramatic changes in the media and the music business. These changes have made it more difficult for a small independent magazine to survive and provide its staff with a living. 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