How much will mobile behaviour change with new superfast internet access? | 06 December 2012, 3:20PM | With only a month to go ’til Christmas our thoughts have started to turn to the inevitable and much dreaded annual questions; 'What am I going to get people for a Christmas present?' For the technophiles amongst us one of the big things we will probably consider is a 4G enabled phone now that EE has rolled out its 4G network.
| | | Entrepreneur to tackle the future of journalism and media | 06 December 2012, 2:34PM | Fascinating story here that could have far reaching implications for us all in this industry. Or possibly none at all depending on your point of view about how much change is yet to come and whether that might involve a host of new platforms and services. Entrepreneur Corey Ford has not only posed the question, asking what is the future of journalism, publishing and media, but he is investing $50k in five companies to see if they can find the answer.
| | | Twitter and blogs tool ThingLink boosts advertiser engagement by more than 100% | 06 December 2012, 12:39PM | With so much digital noise out their advertisers and content producers are desperately seeking ways to cut through and get noticed. ThingLink have created a new tool that helps build dynamic image content for Twitter and blogs. It allows users to embed a variety of content into one image. You can see from the image of Rhianna alongside and another really good example below, from heavy metal band Ill Ninio, the wealth of content and engagement opportunities that ThingLink adds and enriches images with.
| | | Twitter adds Trends to 100 additional worldwide cities ? 12 more in the UK | 06 December 2012, 9:56AM | Twitter has greatly expanded its Trends product today and has added 100 more cities around the world, including twelve in the UK bringing the total to 16. The new UK cities on Twitter are Belfast, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Nottingham, Portsmouth and Sheffield. They join Birmingham, Glasgow, London, and Manchester.
| | | Instagram falls out of love with Twitter as it pulls integration | 06 December 2012, 9:27AM | Facebook-owned Instagram has taken the step of blocking Twitter from displaying photos correctly by disabling its Twitter card integration. It means Instagram photos no longer display properly on Twitter and look oddly cropped. Instagram has said it made the move because it wants people to views pictures on a new Instagram web presence it is building rather than viewing them on Twitter.
| | | The Hobbit goes on an unexpected digital journey | 06 December 2012, 2:15AM | Undoubtedly the film event of the year and the next two years is The Hobbit. Yes there is Twilight for the younger generation but The Hobbit is iconic and stretches across all ages. They have created some really cool brand partnerships and one or two really naff ones!
| | | The Very Personal Future of Social Content | 05 December 2012, 3:31PM | Jules Verne, arguably the patriarch of the science fiction genre, dared to dream of a very different future for us all, and countless writers and movie makers have been influenced by his work, and the rest of us in turn by theirs. This is undoubtedly why a future of man and machine in perfect harmony is something that today we simply accept and expect.
| | | All those things that annoy us about Instagram in one funny video | 05 December 2012, 1:16PM | I’m a huge fan of Instagram, but once you start to use it a bit you notice things about it. Certain types of picture that crop up more than others. You know what I’m talking about. It’s those endless filtered images of coffee cups, street signs and city skylines, sunsets and drifting cloudscapes, and, of course, pictures of cats. Lots of them.
| | | 2013 search strategies - Five thing that will shape the industry | 05 December 2012, 12:40PM | 2012 was an interesting year for the digital marketing industry with the continued rise of Facebook despite a shakey IPO and a concerted, but perhaps doomed fightback from Microsoft's Bing. And let's not forget the interesting new platform of Google+, who celebrated its first birthday in June this year. It may not have caught the public's attention but certainly promises to be very influential in the future of search.
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