The Death of the Channel

Reports from the media meas­ure­ment company Nielsen have dropped one of the features with which the company is arguably most asso­ci­ated: the idea of a tele­vi­sion ‘channel’.

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Everybody’s Heard About the Word

Word-​​of-​​mouth (WoM) has influ­enced all my mobile phone con­tracts, where I took my wife on Valentine’s day and the last jar of instant coffee I pur­chased. It has for you, too, probably. Maybe not those exact items, but you’ve been influ­enced by people telling you what they like.

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Facebook wants your Moon on a Stick

If Facebook were a country, it would be the fourth largest in the world, just after the US, but bigger than Russia, Brazil or Argentina. Two-​​thirds of ComScore’s top 100 US websites and half of the their global top one hundred websites have imple­mented Facebook Connect. So what’s next?

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Social Games: Ning burns; Zynga fiddles

If you look back a couple of years, nobody really expected that social games, like Farmville, Mafia Wars and Texas Hold’Em Poker, would be a par­tic­u­larly powerful force in social media. How wrong we were.

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The Twitter Business

News emerged yes­terday that Twitter is going to intro­duce advert­ising to its service. This will take the form of what it is calling ‘promoted tweets’ that will appear at the top of search results through the service in a con­tex­tual manner.

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Book Review: Me and My Web Shadow

You don’t need to be a tech­nical genius or have to hack into Google’s servers to make sure that your online rep­res­ent­a­tion shows your good side. All you need is to be diligent; create a plan and stick to it.

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