Facebook: Snow White or Big Bad Wolf?
Posted on 16. Jun, 2010 by benmckenna in Advertising, All Posts, Technology
Facebook continues to be big news – and let’s face it, when is it not nowadays? – but the world’s biggest social network seems to be attracting more and more press of the wrong type in recent times.
Since last year’s change to the privacy terms and conditions, a move which in itself attracted enough [...]
Is press a busted flush in the internet age?
Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Print
Have we seen the point where traditional printed media’s business model is just no longer sustainable?
The press industry is having a bit of a hard time at the moment, and don’t we know it. On a national level several of the biggest UK newspapers – titles like the Daily Mail, The Guardian and The Express [...]
Twitter Lists, Twitter’s first strike against clients?
Posted on 19. Oct, 2009 by benmckenna in All Posts, Apps, Twitter
Interesting developments from Twitter with the recent announcement of the release of their Lists beta feature. For those of you with enough of a life not to care about these things, lists is a feature currently only available to “selected users” that allows you to select lists of your favourite Tweeters. So what form will [...]
So you’re thinking of having a Social Media Newsroom?
Posted on 07. Aug, 2009 by benmckenna in All Posts, PR
There’s no doubt that nowadays Public Relations is getting exponentially harder, Social Media has opened up a new front in the world of PR and people are now joining the industry with a whole different skill set to those who have traditionally been drawn to the dark arts of mass relationship and [...]
Reaction to Samsung’s new viral somewhere between antipathy and ambivalence
Posted on 26. Jul, 2009 by benmckenna in Advertising, All Posts
The latest viral effort from the worlds largest conglomerate has been released to a fairly widespread derision. South Korean megacorp Samsung generally create fairly decent technology but, unlike say Apple or Sony, they seem to have perennial problems with actually managing to be likable.
We are, after all, talking about the same [...]
Twitter style ads help Facebook buck the market trend
Posted on 24. Jun, 2009 by benmckenna in Advertising, All Posts
Facebook’s recent buzz has all been about their “Twittification”, reducing the former enjoyable randomness of Facebook to a homogenous Twitter feed. It’s caused all sorts of ructions and mutinies among users with the predictable Facebook groups being set up to demand that the system be scrapped and the norm returned to.
Haha Facebook, now you know [...]