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Tweeting pols and MySpace layoffs

Social Media continues to exert its influence in the political world. The number of MPs with a major Twitter habit, sometimes Tweeting from inside the chamber, was evident last night as the results of the House of Commons Speaker elections were delivered live throughout the evening in 140-character news breaks. Staying ...

Goodbye Google

Few software engineers get around quite like Kevin Marks. The Harrow-born programmer / blogger / open standards advocate announced on his blog on Monday that he's leaving Google. His next stop? Destination unknown. But Brand Republic reports, Marks will "continue to work on open web standards -- something he spent ...

“Best Job” lands a Lion

Tourism Queensland's "best job in the world" campaign to find a caretaker for an Australian paradise island has scooped the two top awards at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, The Guardian reports. It's been a big year for Nitro, the agency behind the campaign. Last week, Sapient acquired the ...

Should the marketing department be Tweeting?

Only if it can live up to these 10 Commandments: We can articulate the company vision in 140 characters or less, minus PR puffery and cliché. We are willing to give credit to cool, innovative or though-provoking ideas, even if coined by someone else. We are willing to challenge a potentially destructive position ...

Social Media Influence Conference Archives

Did you miss this year's Social Media Influence conference? Now you can see all the presentations and photos from the conference at the post-event site. Here's a snapshot of the good stuff to view....

Radar DDB UK’s Social Media Brandscape

We all know that major brands have to adapt fast to the changing world of social media. Now Radar DDB has produced a Social Media Brandscape that seeks to show (with a healthy dose of humour) how well the world's major brands have adapted to that change. [caption id="attachment_518" align="alignnone" width="256" ...

After the Social Media Influence conference

The Social Media Influence conference that took place on March 3rd was a great success and included presentations from YouTube, LinkedIn, Radar DDB UK and Pinsent Masons. We'll be posting videos of the day and the presentations online in the next few days. In the meantime, catch up with conference feedback ...

Facebook seeks users response to new TOS

In the latest development to the Facebook terms of service debacle, Mark Zuckerberg has put out a call for user feedback to the proposed changes to what is now separated out into two separate documents termed the Principles and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. Kara Swisher at All Things Digital liveblogged ...

Why Google should buy Twitter

There's a lot of talk floating around about Google and Twitter at the moment; John Battelle explains why Twitter is the YouTube of realtime search and states the case for why Google should acquire the company: "It's an asset Google cannot afford to not own, and also, one they most likely ...

Social networks infantilise ur brain lolz

Mainstream media and specialist blogs alike are picking up on this nugget from neuroscientist Lady Greenfield, who suggests that the use of social networks can negatively influence the connections in one's brain, resulting in "short attention spans, sensationalism, inability to empathize and a shaky sense of identity." The Guardian has an ...