BBC NEWS | Business | Soaring pay lures Poles back home Last year wages grew by 6.5%, by comparison pay in France and Germany grew 2%. (tags: poland business economy immigration) BBC NEWS | Business | AOL acquires Bebo social… Continue Reading
The Observer speaks with Nick Denton of Gawker Media In all there are around 130 people earning their income from Gawker Media – they keep track of each other through a Facebook group, what else? – and they are in… Continue Reading
Social media isn’t something you add to a website, it’s something you do. When I look back over the social media projects I’ve been involved in over the years, it’s obvious that the key variable upon which success, or failure,… Continue Reading
Click to Play A few days ago, Rory Cellan-Jones, the BBC’s Technology Correspondent, asked on his blog: "What would happen if everyone, anywhere, could have their own live television station from a mobile phone?" I guess the answer is, things… Continue Reading
BBC NEWS : How Twitter makes it real But the sense of presence that can be achieved is remarkable, especially when you’re sitting at your computer working, connected to the internet and with a Twitter client running on your computer… Continue Reading
Yahoo’s “Twitter For Location” Goes Into Private Beta With Near Zero Functionality They’ll also release a mobile site for easier text input. There will be a FireEagle embeddable badge that will show where you are. And, finally, they’ll have the… Continue Reading
As part of a new occasional feature, Journalism.co.uk has set out to interview people working at the collision of journalism and social media. This week they cornered me and asked about my role at the BBC, which social media tools… Continue Reading
Press Gazette – Members of public will run Glasgow websites “If we have a regular contributor then we would have them in the office with us and we would give them more ownership. The long-term aim is to transfer ownership… Continue Reading
Press Gazette – Facebook app will give students free access to FT.com “This application is part of our ongoing efforts to reach a new generation of readers who we hope will become life-long fans of the FT,” said Ien Cheng,… Continue Reading
Lee and Sachi at CommonCraft have probably, through their wonderfully simple video explantations, introduced more people to Social Bookmarking and RSS than anyone. Now they’ve done their magic with Twitter, a micro-blogging service that allows users to "share short, bite-sized… Continue Reading