Search Engine Optimisation and Social Media
Funny Social Media Brands A whole thesis could be written about the various factors which contribute to whether a brand is “followable” or not. Which raises the question why do people choose to like brand pages on Facebook or follow companies on Twitter? On the one hand it could be because they provide you with […]
Twitters Big Investor Little is known about Suhail Rizvi, Twitters big investor. However it is thought that his support has been fundamentally in attracting other investors to the social media platform. So far Rizvi’s and his client’s investments into the company have amassed to an excess of $1 billion. Despite this, very little is known […]
Hide Google Doodle When it comes to Google’s doodles opinion seem to be torn. Some find them incredibly interesting and happily await the next exciting 24 hour takeover of the search engines home page. Whilst others find doodles annoying and irritating distractions, some users dismiss them as childish affronts which the search engine imposes on […]
Flickr Redesign Soon after Marissa Mayer became CEO of the search engine, Yahoo in 2012, she was greeted with a Twitter based campaign. The campaign had one simple request, for a Flickr Redesign in the form of tweets such as “please make Flickr awesome again.” Yahoo was quick to respond to the demand to the […]
Social Media And The Romans It is often easy to assume that social media platforms are a modern phenomenon. But the origin of exchanging of media through social networks and to friends and acquaintances can be found much earlier in human history than the advent of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter dating back to social media […]
Claude Debussy Google Doodle The 22nd August 2013 saw Google play homage to what would have been Claude Debussy’s 151th birthday with a Claude Debussy Google Doodle. Debussy is often acknowledged as one of the twentieth century’s most influential composers. Additionally, Debussy is considered a pivotal player in the development of impressionist music. His trademark […]
Twitter Emergency Alerts The increasingly popular social media platform, Twitter, recently announced that it would be providing its users with a system for Twitter Emergency Alerts. The platform claimed that these alerts could be used to transmit critical information when other more traditional means of communication are unavailable. Twitter stated that their new Twitter Emergency […]
Facebook Housing Facebook, the world’s most popular social media platform, recently announced its intention to create “a luxurious housing estate next to its California based headquarters.” The new Facebook housing development is set to cost a jaw dropping $120 million or £75 million. Recent reports in the Wall Street Journal, state that the Facebook Housing […]
New Bing Logo and “One Microsoft” In the summer of 2013 Microsoft made the announcement that it intended to adjust how Bing operated. It announced that the changes were intended to create a format where both users and developers would be able to tap into a vast wealth of resources in order to help them […]
Petri Dish Google Doodle On May 31st 2013 a fully animated Doodle was created to celebrate the one hundred and sixty first birthday of the world famous German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri. Born in Barmen, Germany in 1852, Petri received his degree from Berlins Kaiser-Wilhelm Academy for military physicians in 1876. According to his biography […]