Tag Archives: Social

Facebook hits 1 Billion users “Thank you for letting us be a part of your lives”

Director of Product at Facebook, Peter X. Deng has just posted this image to his Facebook wall. The comment on the post was “Thank you for letting us be a…

Google images highlight photos from friends

In the ever increasing world of personalised search results, Google have added personal results to images. In the screenshot above we can see images from Google+ contacts Trey Ratcliff and…

Social media just scored me a free trip to Canberra

Regular readers will remember a recent post where ACT Tourism offered a weekend away to people active on social media. The Human Brochure idea is designed to show off what…

The new Myspace redesign has potential to be awesome

Myspace is dead, gone and buried right? Not quite. The once giant social network is starting over. With a complete rethink and redesign of their site, the new clean, click…

Facebook add promoted posts for Pages

Facebook have introduced a new feature for those managing Pages. Recently we seen the introduction of promoted posts, but bizarrely this was restricted to personal profiles and not brand pages….

Canberra wants 500 humans (social media peeps) for a free weekend in Canberra

Tourism Canberra have come up with a new idea to promote the city. The ‘See yourself in the Nation’s Capital’ campaign will send 500 socially active people to Canberra for…

Let’s be clear, Facedeals is not by Facebook

Over the past 24 hours I’ve seen some pretty ordinary reporting from some high-profile sites like this and this around Facedeals. While most surface-level reporting simply see the colour blue…

Facebook comments can now be edited

A new Facebook feature that is steadily rolling out to users is comment editing. This is useful when you realise that witty comment was a little hasty or contained a…