The much-publicised, shadowy collective of politically-motivated hackers known as Anonymous has, apparently, threatened to bring down Facebook on November 5th, a date synonymous with uprising and revolt (for those who know their British history anyway). In a video posted on YouTube, a distorted voice claiming to represent the ‘hacktivists’ warns of the upcoming hack on [...]
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How Does Social Media Affect SEO?
SEO engineers have long suspected that social media elements have an impact on search engine result pages, with particular reference to Google and Bing. This suspicion was confirmed at the end of 2010, via a Danny Sullivan interview with the two search giants, published on the widely respected SearchEngineLand. So we know that search engines [...]
Social Media News: Who’s About To Purchase Twitter?
There has been rumours around the acquisition of Twitter in the past, which ultimately came to nothing. Things feel a little different this time around however, as Google, Microsoft and Facebook are all rumoured to be interested in purchasing the hugely popular social media platform. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, executives [...]
Facebook To Launch Mail Service?
Mark Zuckerburg and his hugely popular Facebook are holding a press conference in San Francisco on Monday, with rumours flying around that the social media giant will be announcing the introduction of their own mail service. It has already been confirmed that the conference will be focusing on Facebook’s internal messaging system, and there is [...]
Microsoft and Facebook Collaboration Secure
It seems recently that the dominance of Google has been too much for some. Over that past year or so we have seen Google consistently loose search volume to competitors (all be it small amounts), and despite the astronomical success of Android, it seems like a slight backlash against ‘everything Google’ is developing especially in [...]
Most Popular Websites Lose Out In Customer Satisfaction Poll
The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) conducts annual surveys in the news, search, information and now social media fields. ForSee Results have compiled a report from results of ACSI surveys which rank the different search providers and social media sites, with some interesting conclusions. Apparently, the most visited sites on the net don’t rank too [...]
‘Google Me’ To Rival Facebook?
A few characters from a Twitter post sparked massive debate on Saturay night: This post comes from Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com, and has since been removed. This has, of course, done nothing to quell the rumours. Further confirmation came in the form of ex-Facebook head Adam D’Angelo, who said: ‘Here is what I’ve pieced [...]
Mark Zuckerberg: An Odd CEO
You expect most CEO’s (particularly those of huge multinational operations) to be pretty slick; good with questions, suave, sophisticated even. Not so these days, as the digital boom creates more and more of a different breed of CEO’s. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, is the best example of this new breed; he’s a sweaty, [...]
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