Following criticism from last week's story about a "racist Facebook photo" the Sunday Times has published a series of articles vigorously defending its earlier story.The abhorrent photo, which was revealed to be three-years old and staged, was the topic of heated discussion across various social networks last week. The photo was dramatically splashed across the country's largest weekly newspaper under the headline "Wanted: Facebook racist".This week the Sunday Times published an editorial defending the story saying "The twits have ...

Internet search-giant Google is teaming up with US broadcaster Fox News to host a debate among the Republican presidential candidates.The debate will be simultaneously broadcast on live on Fox News and Google owned YouTube.The two companies are also coming together to assist the public in asking the two candidates questions. Questions for the Republicans vying for the party's 2012 presidential nomination can be submitted by video or text at youtube.com/foxnewsYouTube.Users can vote on the submitted questions and those ...

In the online world, the URL is ever-present. It is the digital home of businesses large and small, the currency of social exchange, the thread on which the hyperlinked web exists. There can be few more important building blocks to the internet as we know it, but all too often the humble URL has been abused or even downright ignored as technologies have pushed their way to the limelight.The URL has a long history. As with most the building blocks ...

It seems that within the sometimes ethereal world of social media, conglomeration of analytical data was missing. Disparately, one could see how many "likes" your brand got, or how many retweets you got and how often folks +1'd but it wasn't all on the same dashboard.In light of this hole in the industry and the recent launch of Google+ it came as no surprise when Google Analytics launched Social Engagement Reporting (SER). What SER allows us to do is ...

Digital Edge Live has announced the guest-speaker line-up for its upcoming event in Cape Town, South Africa.The event, which bills itself as "the ultimate showdown in digital marketing", will see a number of South Africa's best digital marketing minds face off against each other in what Digital Edge is calling the "ultimate cerebral rumble".According to Digital Edge, the line up to date includes:Gavin Rooke, Managing Director of Trigger/Isobar, one of South Africa's full service digital agencies and ...

Online satirical puppet show, ZANEWS, has found a new home on satellite television provider TopTV's flagship channel, Top One.ZANEWS keeps its audience abreast with a mix of the latest and most controversial current events in a "witty and unorthodox way". The site parodies the formulaic style of media broadcasting in order to remind people that it is possible to engage humorously with societal issues that can often be a source of tension and frustration. ...

The term "engaging" -- when used to talk about email marketing (or any other form of online marketing for that matter) has been thrown around quite a lot lately. Email marketers are constantly being told that they need to "engage more" with their subscribers, content and in their online interaction.What does it really mean to be "engaged" and what can you do to make sure this concept follows through to your email campaigns?Engaging is essentially about connecting and interacting ...

TechCrunch's Michael Arrington has left the popular blog to start a venture capital fund aimed at investing in tech startups. Arrington has partnered with TechCrunch's parent company AOL to raise US$20-million for the new company, CrunchFund, with AOL investing a reported US$10-million in the venture.According to The Wall Street Journal, the project is also backed by "several" other "venture-capital firms". Arrington gave forewarning of such a move back in April of this year, stating that "in a few months, there's ...

WikiLeaks is once more threatening to release a series of uncensored cables following an online poll it is conducting with its Twitter followers.A week prior to the announcement, WikiLeaks published 134 000 US diplomatic cables which contained the names and details of protected individuals.A tweet from the whistleblowing site said:This is in relation to Cablegate, a collection of cables which is seven times the size of the infamous Iraq War Logs. The move to release the cables ...

The XOOM was, of course, the first tablet to run Google's official tablet OS. If you buy it later this month, you'll get it with Honeycomb 3.0, but an immediate upgrade to 3.1 is available, which includes the software necessary to enable the XOOM’s SD card reader.The XOOM has an NVIDIA Tegra 2 1GHz dual-core processor, 1 GB of RAM and a 10.1-inch 1280x800 widescreen HD display. HDMI out allows you to hook the XOOM up to your HDTV and ...