These are my links for December 5th through December 6th:

• Bell Pottinger Power Point Presentation – Guy Fawkes’ blog – Bell Pottinger sources are emphasising that a pre-condition of the deal negotiations with the fictional “Azimov Group” set up by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism was evidence of a reform agenda in Uzbekistan. To be fair to the left-wing BIJ they do mention it tucked away in their report. But here is the introductory Power Point they gave in the now infamous meeting:
• Users Purchase And Leave Gift Cards For Friend’s Next Check-In @PSFK – iPhone app Clingle has launched a feature that allows users to share location-based gifts with friends and family. Clingle, launched in October of this year, enabled users to check-in from locations and leave “clings” there, which were snippets of text, photos or audio that Clingle users in the vicinity later could then see. Building on its existing features and a comprehensive database of locations, Clingle has now added the ability to send location-based gift cards. Users can leave gift cards to popular stores such as Starbucks or American Eagle for their Clingle or Facebook friends at that location, allowing them to unlock it when they get there. The company is currently promoting the app by offering free gift cards to its users as rewards for various achievements.
• £19m an hour spent on Cyber Monday – Yesterday marked the biggest online shopping day of the year, with consumers spending £19 million an hour.
• UK Government To Investigate Groupon After Frequent Breaking Of Ad Rules – Advertising watchdog refers daily deals website after it was found to have broken UK ad regulations 48 times in 11 months
• 55 Tips to Get Retweeted on Twitter – You may be new to Twitter and simply don’t know what the heck you are doing, how to get a retweet or why the retweets even matter. This post won’t teach you what Twitter is but provides good tips for tweetable content which you need regardless if you know what you’re doing or not (joking).
• [N2K] Intuit Begins Creating Facebook Storefronts | – As anybody who has explored and developed shop fronts in Facebook will know, one of the biggest headaches is about connectivity to a payment service. It *should* be a lot easier than it is, but with this move by Intuit, things should get a WHOLE lot easier.
• Vote for unsung Twitter voices – Cast your vote for the non-celebrity Twitter users who have done most to change the world
• One in Four US Starbucks Transactions Now Done Via Mobile – Starbucks customers apparently are finding buying via mobile as addictive as the company’s coffee.
• StumbleUpon Rebrands, Redesigns & Reorganizes Topic Features – StumbleUpon is on a roll. As of August 2011, the U.S.'s biggest serendipity engine drove drive half of all social media traffic, surpassing Facebook, the social network that formerly held that bragging right.
• Amit Gupta and the social media search for a cure – Does social media amplify our sense of responsibility to one another? Amit Gupta, a cancer patient and tech entrepreneur, tests the strength of the web.
• Easyjet Founder To Launch African Budget Airline – The Telegraph reports that easyGroup, which is controlled by EasyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, has tied up with investment firm Rubicon to explore the possibility of launching a low-cost, no-frills airline for Africa.
• Tesco Rolls Out Free Wi-Fi Across UK Stores – Brand Republic is reporting that the British supermarket chain Tesco is rolling out free wireless internet to every Tesco Extra branch in the country following a successful trial in four of its British stores.
• US Theaters Start Reserving ‘Tweet Seats’ For Twitter Users @PSFK – More and more theatre venues across America are offering ‘tweet seats’ for people to live-tweet during performances. The new sections, usually located in the back row to avoid disrupting other patrons, are available at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Carolina Ballet in Raleigh, and Ohio’s Dayton Opera, amongst others.
• UK shopping habits transformed by technology, KPMG says – UK shoppers are embracing technology, and at a faster pace than many other countries, a survey of global shopping habits by KPMG has suggested.
• Web Ink Now: Social Media ROI Hypocrisy – It's ridiculous that executives require marketers to calculate ROI (Return on Investment) on one form of real-time communications: Social media like Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube. Yet they happily pay for other real-time communications devices for employees like Blackberrys, iPhones, and iPads without a proven ROI.
• Twitter trends changing live TV – Telegraph – Twitter executives are increasingly working with TV editors during live shows to help them know what’s trending on the site and how to change footage accordingly.
• Vending Machine At Airport Prints Custom Banners @PSFK – One of Europe’s busiest airports is now offering visitors to print out their own signage to welcome friends and family. Amsterdam Schiphol Airport recently unveiled its new vending machine that dispenses canvas banners with customized “welcome home” messages. Customers can select from various font sizes, backgrounds and themes to personalize their messages.
• Google+ Ripples: The promise of shared intelligence – Ripples offers data visualization over time of how your posts are shared: when, by whom, and to whom. Once a post has been shared even once, an option to view the Ripple will appear in the drop-down menu to the right of the post. Google adds a time stamp video to Ripples that visually shows the spread of a post over time. Put simply, it shows the ‘ripple effect’ of the content that you post.
• Advice for Big Brands: If you’re going to blog, please include an RSS feed | Social Media Today –
• The Psychology Behind Social Commerce – A great infographic by TabJuice that explains how and why people shop online.
• Can home videos make you money on YouTube? – Father-and-son Jake and Ali Goodyear are hoping their YouTube clip of a man trying to call back his dog who was chasing a herd of deer in a park, will generate money after getting more than two million hits in a matter of weeks.
• Is Cyber Monday just PR spin? – Online shopping will peak at 9pm tonight… or was it last Monday? Is Cyber Monday a real phenomenon or just spin to panic people into shopping?
• Why Facebook needs Gowalla – Facebook’s location strategy needs the major bolster Gowalla could give it, writes Emma Barnett.
• eBay comes out of cyberspace to open pop-up London store – Showcase shop with no tills appears in Soho in time for the online Christmas shopping rush
• Is it squeaky bum time for Foursquare? | Online PR, Public Relations, Social Media & Digital PR Agency | Harrogate – So the big news is finally here, Facebook has bought location based game Gowalla. The competitor to Foursquare didn’t quite keep up and more recently tried to reposition itself but now the social media juggernaut that is Facebook has gone and bought it.
• Is Blogging a Waste of Content? | Social Media Today – A lot of people in the mainstream view blogging as a really easy activity. The reason is because of the stereotype of a blogger as someone who rolls out of bed at noon and sits in front of their computer with pajamas on.
• Another Sign QR Codes Don’t Appeal to the Young – A study by Ypulse found that fewer than one in five students have ever used them and nearly two thirds of students have no idea what they are. Some 6% have seen them but can't figure out how to use them. Now, a new study bolsters these findings, Geekosystem reports.
• Vending Machine At Airport Prints Custom Banners @PSFK – One of Europe’s busiest airports is now offering visitors to print out their own signage to welcome friends and family. Amsterdam Schiphol Airport recently unveiled its new vending machine that dispenses canvas banners with customized “welcome home” messages. Customers can select from various font sizes, backgrounds and themes to personalize their messages.
• Web Ink Now: Social Media ROI Hypocrisy – It's ridiculous that executives require marketers to calculate ROI (Return on Investment) on one form of real-time communications: Social media like Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube. Yet they happily pay for other real-time communications devices for employees like Blackberrys, iPhones, and iPads without a proven ROI.
• US Theaters Start Reserving ‘Tweet Seats’ For Twitter Users @PSFK – More and more theatre venues across America are offering ‘tweet seats’ for people to live-tweet during performances. The new sections, usually located in the back row to avoid disrupting other patrons, are available at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Carolina Ballet in Raleigh, and Ohio’s Dayton Opera, amongst others.
• The Psychology Behind Social Commerce – A great infographic by TabJuice that explains how and why people shop online.
• eBay comes out of cyberspace to open pop-up London store – Showcase shop with no tills appears in Soho in time for the online Christmas shopping rush
• Why Facebook needs Gowalla – Facebook’s location strategy needs the major bolster Gowalla could give it, writes Emma Barnett.
• Is Cyber Monday just PR spin? – Online shopping will peak at 9pm tonight… or was it last Monday? Is Cyber Monday a real phenomenon or just spin to panic people into shopping?
• Another Sign QR Codes Don’t Appeal to the Young – A study by Ypulse found that fewer than one in five students have ever used them and nearly two thirds of students have no idea what they are. Some 6% have seen them but can't figure out how to use them. Now, a new study bolsters these findings, Geekosystem reports.
• Can home videos make you money on YouTube? – Father-and-son Jake and Ali Goodyear are hoping their YouTube clip of a man trying to call back his dog who was chasing a herd of deer in a park, will generate money after getting more than two million hits in a matter of weeks.
• Advice for Big Brands: If you’re going to blog, please include an RSS feed | Social Media Today –
• UK shopping habits transformed by technology, KPMG says – UK shoppers are embracing technology, and at a faster pace than many other countries, a survey of global shopping habits by KPMG has suggested.
• Twitter trends changing live TV – Telegraph – Twitter executives are increasingly working with TV editors during live shows to help them know what’s trending on the site and how to change footage accordingly.
• Google+ Ripples: The promise of shared intelligence – Ripples offers data visualization over time of how your posts are shared: when, by whom, and to whom. Once a post has been shared even once, an option to view the Ripple will appear in the drop-down menu to the right of the post. Google adds a time stamp video to Ripples that visually shows the spread of a post over time. Put simply, it shows the ‘ripple effect’ of the content that you post.
• Is it squeaky bum time for Foursquare? | Online PR, Public Relations, Social Media & Digital PR Agency | Harrogate – So the big news is finally here, Facebook has bought location based game Gowalla. The competitor to Foursquare didn’t quite keep up and more recently tried to reposition itself but now the social media juggernaut that is Facebook has gone and bought it.
• Is Blogging a Waste of Content? | Social Media Today – A lot of people in the mainstream view blogging as a really easy activity. The reason is because of the stereotype of a blogger as someone who rolls out of bed at noon and sits in front of their computer with pajamas on.
• The Psychology Behind Social Commerce – A great infographic by TabJuice that explains how and why people shop online.
• Web Ink Now: Social Media ROI Hypocrisy – It's ridiculous that executives require marketers to calculate ROI (Return on Investment) on one form of real-time communications: Social media like Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube. Yet they happily pay for other real-time communications devices for employees like Blackberrys, iPhones, and iPads without a proven ROI.
• Why Facebook needs Gowalla – Facebook’s location strategy needs the major bolster Gowalla could give it, writes Emma Barnett.
• Vending Machine At Airport Prints Custom Banners @PSFK – One of Europe’s busiest airports is now offering visitors to print out their own signage to welcome friends and family. Amsterdam Schiphol Airport recently unveiled its new vending machine that dispenses canvas banners with customized “welcome home” messages. Customers can select from various font sizes, backgrounds and themes to personalize their messages.
• Can home videos make you money on YouTube? – Father-and-son Jake and Ali Goodyear are hoping their YouTube clip of a man trying to call back his dog who was chasing a herd of deer in a park, will generate money after getting more than two million hits in a matter of weeks.
• Twitter trends changing live TV – Telegraph – Twitter executives are increasingly working with TV editors during live shows to help them know what’s trending on the site and how to change footage accordingly.
• US Theaters Start Reserving ‘Tweet Seats’ For Twitter Users @PSFK – More and more theatre venues across America are offering ‘tweet seats’ for people to live-tweet during performances. The new sections, usually located in the back row to avoid disrupting other patrons, are available at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Carolina Ballet in Raleigh, and Ohio’s Dayton Opera, amongst others.
• Advice for Big Brands: If you’re going to blog, please include an RSS feed | Social Media Today –
• Is it squeaky bum time for Foursquare? | Online PR, Public Relations, Social Media & Digital PR Agency | Harrogate – So the big news is finally here, Facebook has bought location based game Gowalla. The competitor to Foursquare didn’t quite keep up and more recently tried to reposition itself but now the social media juggernaut that is Facebook has gone and bought it.
• Is Cyber Monday just PR spin? – Online shopping will peak at 9pm tonight… or was it last Monday? Is Cyber Monday a real phenomenon or just spin to panic people into shopping?
• Another Sign QR Codes Don’t Appeal to the Young – A study by Ypulse found that fewer than one in five students have ever used them and nearly two thirds of students have no idea what they are. Some 6% have seen them but can't figure out how to use them. Now, a new study bolsters these findings, Geekosystem reports.
• UK shopping habits transformed by technology, KPMG says – UK shoppers are embracing technology, and at a faster pace than many other countries, a survey of global shopping habits by KPMG has suggested.
• Google+ Ripples: The promise of shared intelligence – Ripples offers data visualization over time of how your posts are shared: when, by whom, and to whom. Once a post has been shared even once, an option to view the Ripple will appear in the drop-down menu to the right of the post. Google adds a time stamp video to Ripples that visually shows the spread of a post over time. Put simply, it shows the ‘ripple effect’ of the content that you post.
• eBay comes out of cyberspace to open pop-up London store – Showcase shop with no tills appears in Soho in time for the online Christmas shopping rush
• Is Blogging a Waste of Content? | Social Media Today – A lot of people in the mainstream view blogging as a really easy activity. The reason is because of the stereotype of a blogger as someone who rolls out of bed at noon and sits in front of their computer with pajamas on.
• US Theaters Start Reserving ‘Tweet Seats’ For Twitter Users @PSFK – More and more theatre venues across America are offering ‘tweet seats’ for people to live-tweet during performances. The new sections, usually located in the back row to avoid disrupting other patrons, are available at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Carolina Ballet in Raleigh, and Ohio’s Dayton Opera, amongst others.
• Can home videos make you money on YouTube? – Father-and-son Jake and Ali Goodyear are hoping their YouTube clip of a man trying to call back his dog who was chasing a herd of deer in a park, will generate money after getting more than two million hits in a matter of weeks.
• Web Ink Now: Social Media ROI Hypocrisy – It's ridiculous that executives require marketers to calculate ROI (Return on Investment) on one form of real-time communications: Social media like Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube. Yet they happily pay for other real-time communications devices for employees like Blackberrys, iPhones, and iPads without a proven ROI.
• Twitter trends changing live TV – Telegraph – Twitter executives are increasingly working with TV editors during live shows to help them know what’s trending on the site and how to change footage accordingly.
• Vending Machine At Airport Prints Custom Banners @PSFK – One of Europe’s busiest airports is now offering visitors to print out their own signage to welcome friends and family. Amsterdam Schiphol Airport recently unveiled its new vending machine that dispenses canvas banners with customized “welcome home” messages. Customers can select from various font sizes, backgrounds and themes to personalize their messages.
• Why Facebook needs Gowalla – Facebook’s location strategy needs the major bolster Gowalla could give it, writes Emma Barnett.
• Advice for Big Brands: If you’re going to blog, please include an RSS feed | Social Media Today –
• The Psychology Behind Social Commerce – A great infographic by TabJuice that explains how and why people shop online.
• Is it squeaky bum time for Foursquare? | Online PR, Public Relations, Social Media & Digital PR Agency | Harrogate – So the big news is finally here, Facebook has bought location based game Gowalla. The competitor to Foursquare didn’t quite keep up and more recently tried to reposition itself but now the social media juggernaut that is Facebook has gone and bought it.
• Google+ Ripples: The promise of shared intelligence – Ripples offers data visualization over time of how your posts are shared: when, by whom, and to whom. Once a post has been shared even once, an option to view the Ripple will appear in the drop-down menu to the right of the post. Google adds a time stamp video to Ripples that visually shows the spread of a post over time. Put simply, it shows the ‘ripple effect’ of the content that you post.
• UK shopping habits transformed by technology, KPMG says – UK shoppers are embracing technology, and at a faster pace than many other countries, a survey of global shopping habits by KPMG has suggested.
• Is Cyber Monday just PR spin? – Online shopping will peak at 9pm tonight… or was it last Monday? Is Cyber Monday a real phenomenon or just spin to panic people into shopping?
• eBay comes out of cyberspace to open pop-up London store – Showcase shop with no tills appears in Soho in time for the online Christmas shopping rush
• Another Sign QR Codes Don’t Appeal to the Young – A study by Ypulse found that fewer than one in five students have ever used them and nearly two thirds of students have no idea what they are. Some 6% have seen them but can't figure out how to use them. Now, a new study bolsters these findings, Geekosystem reports.
• Is Blogging a Waste of Content? | Social Media Today – A lot of people in the mainstream view blogging as a really easy activity. The reason is because of the stereotype of a blogger as someone who rolls out of bed at noon and sits in front of their computer with pajamas on.
• Vending Machine At Airport Prints Custom Banners @PSFK – One of Europe’s busiest airports is now offering visitors to print out their own signage to welcome friends and family. Amsterdam Schiphol Airport recently unveiled its new vending machine that dispenses canvas banners with customized “welcome home” messages. Customers can select from various font sizes, backgrounds and themes to personalize their messages.
• Web Ink Now: Social Media ROI Hypocrisy – It's ridiculous that executives require marketers to calculate ROI (Return on Investment) on one form of real-time communications: Social media like Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube. Yet they happily pay for other real-time communications devices for employees like Blackberrys, iPhones, and iPads without a proven ROI.
• Is it squeaky bum time for Foursquare? | Online PR, Public Relations, Social Media & Digital PR Agency | Harrogate – So the big news is finally here, Facebook has bought location based game Gowalla. The competitor to Foursquare didn’t quite keep up and more recently tried to reposition itself but now the social media juggernaut that is Facebook has gone and bought it.
• The Psychology Behind Social Commerce – A great infographic by TabJuice that explains how and why people shop online.
• Why Facebook needs Gowalla – Facebook’s location strategy needs the major bolster Gowalla could give it, writes Emma Barnett.
• US Theaters Start Reserving ‘Tweet Seats’ For Twitter Users @PSFK – More and more theatre venues across America are offering ‘tweet seats’ for people to live-tweet during performances. The new sections, usually located in the back row to avoid disrupting other patrons, are available at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Carolina Ballet in Raleigh, and Ohio’s Dayton Opera, amongst others.
• Is Cyber Monday just PR spin? – Online shopping will peak at 9pm tonight… or was it last Monday? Is Cyber Monday a real phenomenon or just spin to panic people into shopping?
• eBay comes out of cyberspace to open pop-up London store – Showcase shop with no tills appears in Soho in time for the online Christmas shopping rush
• Can home videos make you money on YouTube? – Father-and-son Jake and Ali Goodyear are hoping their YouTube clip of a man trying to call back his dog who was chasing a herd of deer in a park, will generate money after getting more than two million hits in a matter of weeks.
• Another Sign QR Codes Don’t Appeal to the Young – A study by Ypulse found that fewer than one in five students have ever used them and nearly two thirds of students have no idea what they are. Some 6% have seen them but can't figure out how to use them. Now, a new study bolsters these findings, Geekosystem reports.
• UK shopping habits transformed by technology, KPMG says – UK shoppers are embracing technology, and at a faster pace than many other countries, a survey of global shopping habits by KPMG has suggested.
• Advice for Big Brands: If you’re going to blog, please include an RSS feed | Social Media Today –
• Google+ Ripples: The promise of shared intelligence – Ripples offers data visualization over time of how your posts are shared: when, by whom, and to whom. Once a post has been shared even once, an option to view the Ripple will appear in the drop-down menu to the right of the post. Google adds a time stamp video to Ripples that visually shows the spread of a post over time. Put simply, it shows the ‘ripple effect’ of the content that you post.
• Twitter trends changing live TV – Telegraph – Twitter executives are increasingly working with TV editors during live shows to help them know what’s trending on the site and how to change footage accordingly.
• Is Blogging a Waste of Content? | Social Media Today – A lot of people in the mainstream view blogging as a really easy activity. The reason is because of the stereotype of a blogger as someone who rolls out of bed at noon and sits in front of their computer with pajamas on.
• US Theaters Start Reserving ‘Tweet Seats’ For Twitter Users @PSFK – More and more theatre venues across America are offering ‘tweet seats’ for people to live-tweet during performances. The new sections, usually located in the back row to avoid disrupting other patrons, are available at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Carolina Ballet in Raleigh, and Ohio’s Dayton Opera, amongst others.
• Can home videos make you money on YouTube? – Father-and-son Jake and Ali Goodyear are hoping their YouTube clip of a man trying to call back his dog who was chasing a herd of deer in a park, will generate money after getting more than two million hits in a matter of weeks.
• Web Ink Now: Social Media ROI Hypocrisy – It's ridiculous that executives require marketers to calculate ROI (Return on Investment) on one form of real-time communications: Social media like Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube. Yet they happily pay for other real-time communications devices for employees like Blackberrys, iPhones, and iPads without a proven ROI.
• Twitter trends changing live TV – Telegraph – Twitter executives are increasingly working with TV editors during live shows to help them know what’s trending on the site and how to change footage accordingly.
• Vending Machine At Airport Prints Custom Banners @PSFK – One of Europe’s busiest airports is now offering visitors to print out their own signage to welcome friends and family. Amsterdam Schiphol Airport recently unveiled its new vending machine that dispenses canvas banners with customized “welcome home” messages. Customers can select from various font sizes, backgrounds and themes to personalize their messages.
• Why Facebook needs Gowalla – Facebook’s location strategy needs the major bolster Gowalla could give it, writes Emma Barnett.
• Advice for Big Brands: If you’re going to blog, please include an RSS feed | Social Media Today –
• The Psychology Behind Social Commerce – A great infographic by TabJuice that explains how and why people shop online.
• Is it squeaky bum time for Foursquare? | Online PR, Public Relations, Social Media & Digital PR Agency | Harrogate – So the big news is finally here, Facebook has bought location based game Gowalla. The competitor to Foursquare didn’t quite keep up and more recently tried to reposition itself but now the social media juggernaut that is Facebook has gone and bought it.
• Is Blogging a Waste of Content? | Social Media Today – A lot of people in the mainstream view blogging as a really easy activity. The reason is because of the stereotype of a blogger as someone who rolls out of bed at noon and sits in front of their computer with pajamas on.
• Google+ Ripples: The promise of shared intelligence – Ripples offers data visualization over time of how your posts are shared: when, by whom, and to whom. Once a post has been shared even once, an option to view the Ripple will appear in the drop-down menu to the right of the post. Google adds a time stamp video to Ripples that visually shows the spread of a post over time. Put simply, it shows the ‘ripple effect’ of the content that you post.
• UK shopping habits transformed by technology, KPMG says – UK shoppers are embracing technology, and at a faster pace than many other countries, a survey of global shopping habits by KPMG has suggested.
• Is Cyber Monday just PR spin? – Online shopping will peak at 9pm tonight… or was it last Monday? Is Cyber Monday a real phenomenon or just spin to panic people into shopping?
• Another Sign QR Codes Don’t Appeal to the Young – A study by Ypulse found that fewer than one in five students have ever used them and nearly two thirds of students have no idea what they are. Some 6% have seen them but can't figure out how to use them. Now, a new study bolsters these findings, Geekosystem reports.
• eBay comes out of cyberspace to open pop-up London store – Showcase shop with no tills appears in Soho in time for the online Christmas shopping rush