Remember when there were high streets full of local shops, butchers and greengrocers. Then along came the supermarket giants who pushed them out of the water. This could be the future of the social media world. Already dominated by social behemoths Facebook, Twitter and Google+, ‘soc-med’ is a big players’ game but there are still [...]

LinkedIn has hit the 150 million members mark – a 20 million increase over November. The company released the figures in its fourth quarter and full-year 2011 results. The site now has more than eight million users in the UK and more than 31 million across Europe. These are strong figures considering that the network [...]

This is a guest post by Liam Ahern. Liam is an Online Business Specialist at I-COM (www.i-com.net), an award winning online marketing agency in Manchester. I-COM offers a full range of online marketing services, including web design, social media marketing, PPC, web development and SEO.   Are you using social media to promote your ecommerce [...]

This is a guest blog by Steve Downes, Managing Director of Juice Digital, Manchester.    In 1992 a British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, suggested that there is a limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. He postulated that this was somewhere between 100 and 230, with the common value [...]

The past few days have seen chaos descend on our capital city. Quick to play the blame game, news sources gave the violence an affectionate moniker, branding them ‘the twitter-riots’ and pointing the finger of blame at social networks for lighting the touch-paper and fanning the flames. Up until this morning, that was fairly true. [...]

Latest updates:   10/8 14:07 - According to shop owners in the Arndale, shops have been told to close at 4:30 and everyone out by5pm. Reports of some businesses being told to vacate in Albert Square but seems to be for precaution rather than because of actual trouble. Reports of some arrests on Oldham Street. At [...]

Why are we surprised? Everyone knows that as soon as a celebrity dies their albums will be promoted on iTunes, DVDs be brought to the front of store in HMV, and merchandise will pop up everywhere ‘in honour’ of the departed. Microsoft took it a little too far last week with a rather insensitive tweet [...]

Is Facebook feeling the consequences of ignoring users privacy concerns? Yesterday, stories were rife across the internet about Facebook losing users in the US, UK, Canada, Norway and Russia. According to data gathered by the site Inside Facebook, in the US, the site lost about 6 million users in May from 155.2 million at the [...]

Groupon has filed for an IPO with the hope of cashing in on investors hunger for web start-ups. They filed yesterday and are looking to raise up to $750 million. The announcement came on the same day as Amazon announced their launch of a daily deals site. The premise of these sites is very simple: [...]

The global phenomenon, YouTube, celebrated its sixth birthday yesterday. In a message on their blog, YouTube thanked everyone for their support and revealed two amazing stats on the video site’s popularity. First they announced that over 48 hours of video content are uploaded every minute, “a 37% increase over the last six months and 100% [...]