Games have overtaken e-mail as Americans’ number two online time killer for the first time, according to new research, with social networking coming top of the list.
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Games overtake email as second top online time killer- US study
Ted Prodromou, Online Marketing/SEO Analyst for Sitecore, provides a best practice guide for leveraging the popularity of Social Media to drive targeted traffic to your website.
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Top tips: 5 Key Ingredients of Social Media for Your Website
Yell is to give small businesses listed on its directory targeted advertising on Facebook as part of its netReach product.
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Yell connects online advertisers with Facebook audience
Personal details of 100m Facebook users have been collected and published on the net by a security consultant. Ron Bowes used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, collecting data not hidden by the user’s privacy settings.
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Right to reply: Facebook data leak- users need to take responsibility for their own security
Facebook has introduced Facebook Questions, a beta product that lets users pose questions to the social network’s community.
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Facebook takes on Google with Q&A service
Momentum Pictures is launching a digital game to promote new film, ‘The Girl Who Played With Fire’.
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‘The Girl who Played with Fire’ gets Facebook game promo
Shared interest communities and communities of purpose – those with a single aim, or goal – can offer brands a great way to engender loyalty, says Tamara Littleton, CEO of moderation and community management company, eModeration, in a new guide to managing communities of purpose.
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Guest comment: The rise of branded communities of purpose
In just six years Facebook has reached the 500 million member mark, which includes 26 million Britons, more than one third of the UK population. The global figure means eight per cent of the world’s population is now on the leading social network, which gained around 100 million new users in the last six months alone. Carl Leonard, Security Research Manager EMEA, Websense, explains why an increasingly connected world should be greeted with caution…
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Right to reply: Facebook 500 million user milestone great news for enterprises – but vigilance still needed
Internet users will soon trade elements of their privacy in return for content as part of a massive shake up of the digital content industry, according to a new report.
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Internet users ‘will trade privacy for access to content’
Google takes the crown for malware distribution – turning up more than twice the amount of malware as Bing, Twitter and Yahoo! combined, when returning results for popular searches.
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Google ‘has twice as much Malware than Bing, Yahoo! and Twitter Combined’