Category Archives: Links

1. Media Week – ABCe figures show UK increases lag behind global growth
UK newspaper websites still growing in audience, both at home and beyond

2. BBC News – Online time ‘is good for teens’

3. EMarketer – If RSS Is Niche Media, Why Use It?
The argument for RSS implementation

4. Techcrunch – Google Kills Lively
Google’s virtual world was a non-starter

5. Netimperative – Brits ‘would rather have the Internet than cars’

6. Netimperative – Consumers flocking to Web 2.0-enabled healthcare

1. Netimperative – 14m Brits visited a blog in August
That’s 41% of the internet audience

2. Netimperative – Top UK sites- September 2008
Facebook now has 18 million unique users in the UK, more than the BBC

3. BBC News – Google abandons deal with Yahoo

4. The Guardian – Blears blames cynical blogs and career politicians for voters’ apathy

5. PR 2.0 – Reinventing Crisis Communications for the Social Web

1. Journalism – FT.com builds on Alphaville success with Long Room launch
Financial Times invests in social networking

2. Read/Write Web – Study: Influencers are Alive and Well on Social Media Sites
Social networking sites are building advocacy

3. Read/Write Web – Report: Social Web Usage Tipped in 2008
Social network usage has grown further in 2008

4. Giga OM – Top 10 Web Tools for Election ‘08
Follow the US election with these useful tools

5. ShinyRed – Social media and brands in 2009: Shiny Red report
An informative report about trends in 2008, and predictions for 2009

6. Wall Street Journal – Twitter Goes Mainstream
Microblogging is no longer a fad

7. BBC News – Bosses ’should embrace Facebook’

8. EMarketer – Meet the UK Digital Nation
A summary of the current state of UK internet and mobile

9. EMarketer – Retailers Get Social with Facebook

10. Techcrunch – LinkedIn Means Business With New Application Platform
Major news from the business social network, applications can now be built for the site

1. BBC News – EU to expand e-shoppers’ rights
Initiatives are moved forward to improve online retailing

2. Hitwise – Facebook is number 2 website, but the growth of social networks is slowing

3. EMarketer – Consumers Await on Social Networks
Consumers expect companies/organisations to have a presence on social networks

4. EMarketer – What Do Shoppers Research on the Web?
A study outlining what people research when looking to make purchases

5. EMarketer – Online Video Viewer Demographics

1. Official Google blog – The future of mobile
The future of mobile according to Google

2. Technorati – State of the blogosphere 2008
Blogging alive and well globally

3. New Media Age – Little Britain duo front UK launch of Funny or Die site

4. BBC News – MySpace launches net music store
Fox tries to own online music with the backing of the major record labels

5. MediaWeek – Guardian retains top spot among newspaper websites

6. The Guardian – Tories launch first official blog in web overhaul
The Conservative Party re-launches its website ahead of its conference

7. BBC News – Mayor sees London as ‘wi-fi city’
Boris Johnson wants to invest in Wi-Fi

8. EMarketer – Extending the Social Network
A look at what influences people’s opinions of new products

9. Read/Write Web – Project 10^100: Google Wants to Help You Change the World
Google launches a CSR initiative

10. Mashable – Twitter to Launch Special Site for Tracking the Presidential Debates
Twitter follows the US election