These are my links for February 26th through February 29th:

We Watch Our Phones More Than We Watch TV, But The PC Wins The Day | TechCrunch – Earlier today we saw a significant move from MTV to launch a social mobile TV service and some research out from InMobi today underscores just why these kinds of moves are so important right now for TV companies:
Need More YouTube Views? Try Pinterest – Independent film and entertainment studio Lionsgate holds the majority (30%) of the market share of fitness DVDs. Naturally, the …

These are my links for February 11th through February 26th:

From Ryan Giggs to Ryanair… Censorship, bans and ‘money can’t buy’ publicity – The Media Blog – It seems it has always been the case that attempts to stop the public seeing something only ever increases the publicity generated. Just ask Ryan Giggs – named this week as the fooballer behind a high court injunction, to the surprise of absolutely nobody.
Spotify launches gapless playback programme for budding DJs – So you fancy yourself as a superstar DJ – but can’t deal with those awkward …

Need an excuse to stand that little bit taller today? Here’s one: YOU are actively involved in helping digitise the world’s books (via Google Books) and the entire newspaper archive of the New York Times, making the printed word eventually accessible to billions of people online. I bet you weren’t even aware that you were involved in this noble pursuit of epic proportions?
If like me, you spend a lot of time online, you probably need no introduction to the item below.
 
It’s a reCAPTCHA code. A CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing …

These are my links for February 8th through February 11th:

How Nonprofits Can Get the Most Out of Foursquare – Location-based social platforms like Foursquare are making good use of the oportunities the social and mobile web offer. Foursquare is continually adding more features to make the world easier to use and explore. Many nonprofits are using these features on Foursquare to amplifying their messaging to new and old audiences alike. Here are some tactics for making the most of what you have to offer on Foursquare and some of the …

These are my links for February 4th through February 8th:

Top 5 Social Sites for Film Fans – If you ranted and raved about the recent Oscar nominations on Facebook, but none of your friends seemed to care, it’s time to either A) find new friends or B) find a social network that caters to your cinematic needs.
Teenagers ‘prefer social media to TV’ – Telegraph – Teenagers now list using social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter as their number one pastime, overtaking watching television, according to a new report.
Skoda …

These are my links for February 1st through February 3rd:

100+ Brands on Pinterest – Pinterest is emerging to be one of the hottest social networks of 2012. A recent report found that Pinterest drives more referral traffic than Google+, YouTube and LinkedIn (some analyisis by Brian Solis here).
How To Pimp Your LinkedIn Profile –
8 Things You Should Know Before Building a Mobile App – App appeal is obvious. The barrier to entry? So low! The upshot of producing the next Angry Birds or beer-chug simulator? So high! Heck, with …

I have to say that one of Google’s unsung heroes within its rapidly shrinking portfolio of products (thanks to the cannibalistic personality of Google+) is undoubtedly Google Goggles – the completely genius image recognition service for mobile phones.
Launched just under two years ago, Google Goggles has gone from strength to strength and is available across multiple mobile platforms including iPhone and (obviously) Android handsets.
I have to say that I prefer using Goggles’ image recognition capabilities to secure further web info than having to rely on often gimmicky QR codes to …

Many years after I closed my agency Flux PR, I still used to receive the odd email now and again destined for another company which had a very similar name (and also happened to be a PR company).
Instead of ignoring the emails, I always made a point of forwarding them on or letting the sender know that they had made a mistake.
It’s all about serendipity, I guess. Which is why the following story is completely amazing:
In January 2007, Rachel P. Salazar and Ruben P. Salazar were living 9,000 miles apart and completely …