For those who have yet to enter the wonderful world of the Facebook Timeline, the deadline to clean up your act is fast approaching. Facebook has announced it will be rolling out the new look profile page over the next few weeks, and once yours is in place you’ll have a week to filter out the content you don’t want displayed. The update is causing quite a stir for a variety of different reasons. There is a fair amount of negativity about the new layout with many complaining it is messy and difficult to understand,... [Read more]

Google’s master plan has suddenly started to become a lot clearer with its new and quite frankly very exciting social search feature. Since Google+ launched there have been a fair amount of general wonderings as to where its social platform was going and what value it was bringing to users. We all struggled a little to see what it was bringing to our already cluttered online lives but we should have known Google had a plan worth waiting for. And here it is! Social search! According to Google’s blog, as well as... [Read more]

There’s been a lot of noise this week about the fact that Facebook’s new subscribe feature has been made available for websites. Some of the headlines announced the new feature was to rival Twitter and replicated the user’s ability to ‘follow’ individuals. It all sounded very exciting until I spent a good half an hour head scratching over the not insignificant number of posts about this new tool just to come to the realisation that this is a bit of a non story. The subscribe button for a brand page does exactly... [Read more]

Email Vs. Social Media The world according to Mark Zuckerberg is one where email is no more and replaced by messenger services such as Facebook. While it’s true that we now have more choice when it comes to our preferred method of communication, this doesn’t mean that email no longer has a place. In fact the use of email has grown significantly over the past few years. According to a report produced by Royal Pingdom early this year, 107 trillion emails were sent in total during 2010. There were almost 2bn email... [Read more]

We’ve been playing around with Google+ for a few months now with mixed feelings about its usefulness.  And while some of the tools look promising it still feels as though it hasn’t really taken off yet. So it’s a bit of a surprise to see that Google have launched pages for brands to set up and begin establishing a presence on the social networking site. Obviously the likely candidates have already jumped in and created their pages, pushing out this new development to the world over twitter and their websites.... [Read more]

If you use Facebook Comments  on your site you should soon be seeing some benefit to your SEO. Google has updated its search and is now able to index comments left on websites using the Facebook Comments plug in. This is quite a dramatic change for Google who was previously unable to return results containing comments left via social network plug-ins as they were rendered within an <iframe> making them invisible to search engines. So while websites tried to make it easier for users to comment without having... [Read more]

Editor:  As most of you may already now, I’ve had an unhealthy obsession with Klout over the past few months. They may in part have been because my score was so high Its not anymore. It dropped by over 10 points overnight. Klout is clearly trying to improve their algorithm and rightly so. However there really are some clear flaws in the new algorithm (which I’m sure they’ll iron out). However, if I have more followers, likes, and connections, I am more active and get re-tweeted more, it would make... [Read more]

Inspired by a guest post at problogger.com, Ciaran and Daniel explore 15 different types of blog post, in the hope that the list will help inspire those of you out there struggling to fill all that white space on your blogs. On the journey through the list, Daniel talks us through removing fluff from his Iphone, Ciaran shares his secret super hero identity “Washing machine repair man.” and we also share a great email marketing resource http://www.emaildesignreview.com. Infographics, Cheat sheets, Interviews,... [Read more]

Ciaran and Daniel discuss Klout, the social media scoring service that has been taking the web by storm. With over 100 million users worldwide, Klout has an interesting take on how influential you are in social media, but it isn’t perfect, and it can be gamed.  Daniel also ridicules Ciaran on how un-influential he is socially.…. Follow @ciaraniow on Twitter and help right the injustice of it all (Or just follow @danielrowles – Ciaran forgets I edit these!) Send your name and  Klout score to @ciaraniow Subscribe... [Read more]

  Where are Facebook changes heading? Is it me or does Facebook seem to be running scared from Twitter and G+? It’s understandable that it would want to keep its product fresh with rising competition from elsewhere in the world of social networking but it looks to me like Facebook is frantically replicating key features and throwing them into the mix. Causing much consternation from many users. First of all came the updated friends list; this allows users to manage their contacts better and share updates only... [Read more]