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Not long now for MySpace

Posted on March 29, 2011

The Wall Street Journal this week reports more misery for ailing social network MySpace, as brand owners including Pepsi, Ford and Hilton Hotels end their advertising relationships with the site, which comScore reports witnessed a 44% drop in unique visitors … Continue reading →

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Ludicrous licensing: RIP Marley & Jacko

Posted on March 14, 2011

Licensing deals can sometimes throw-up such joyous unions as the Adidas Star Wars range of trainers.  However, the meeting of product and licence can also deliver such bewildering outcomes that make us want to throw-up. Here’s a couple of gems … Continue reading →

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Facebook announces new location based Deals service

Posted on November 9, 2010

Facebook today announced the follow up to its limply received and lightly fingered location based check-in service ‘Places’, with something much more interesting, which may still breath life into its flagging location ambition. ‘Deals’ is a new service which may … Continue reading →

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Facebook HQ London exploits Facebook Places privacy settings

Posted on September 22, 2010

Last week Facebook Places went live in the UK, allowing users to ‘check-in’ and share their location with friends, and see who has visited that location previously.  Using FB Places in London’s West End, you can pull up a host … Continue reading →

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Are some things too scared for advertising? Not in the UK …

Posted on August 26, 2010

On my way to the office this morning I was stopped in my tracks by a police car. Not unusual in a city centre but what made today different was that this police car was sponsored and co-branded by Brighton … Continue reading →

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Want to buy some drugs? There’s an app for that

Posted on August 25, 2010

They say the best inventions are born out of necessity, a descriptor that certainly fits Square, the new mobile payments start-up from Twitter founder Jack Dorsey.  Today Silicon Alley Insider has reported that Slide veteran Keith Rabois has also joined … Continue reading →

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Blog-vertising….grail or gravy?

Posted on July 22, 2010

Established wisdom dictates that blogs are sacred and therefore should remain free from advertising and the kind of commercialism that might warp editorial values and curtail honest, unbiased expression, right? Well, set to test this status quo is ebuzzing, a … Continue reading →

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Queen meets Blackberry

Posted on July 7, 2010

Stuart Dredge over at the brilliant mobile handset blog, Recombu, has started a caption competition.  Download the image, add your caption and repost to twitter against the hashtag #bbqueen We like this one posted up to twitter by @infomobster:

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Facebook the movie: twitter the sequel?

Posted on July 7, 2010

If you’ve not seen the trailer for the forthcoming facebook movie ‘The Social Network’ then take a butcher’s. I thought it was some kind of April Fools joke, but after scratching around it appears that the facebook movie is real.  … Continue reading →

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