On the 2nd of May, television broadcaster Al-Jazeera will make history with the broadcast of "The Stream", a 30-minute talk show like no other. With "no script, no tape and no satellite hookups", the Doha-based news broadcaster is "bringing the social media experience inside your TV".Most television shows follow the same model: They create their broadcast product and then build a website to complement the show as a secondary resource. But as the number of cord-cutters begins to reach a ...

Once upon a time Facebook was the most effective, inexpensive marketing platform for small businesses. Due to its viral newsfeeds, share buttons and tagging features Facebook allowed for pretty much "free" marketing to niche consumers with the only foreseeable challenge being, finding the time to do it.As most entrepreneurs will tell you, with small businesses comes a mountain of work that brings to mind the saying “the son of a cobbler has no shoes” -- sadly most small businesses ...

There’s no avoiding social media today, although to be honest (grandma aside) who really wants to? The additional platform that it provides as a means of spreading brand awareness and engaging with customers on both an intimate and mass level is hugely appealing and widely recognized.Nowadays, it’s a given that some form of social media is incorporated into a company’s overall marketing strategy, and the vast majority are reaping the benefits through increased direct sales, online sales, brand exposure ...

Facebook on Monday began letting members of cozy cliques formed at the social networking service share website links or photo albums without all their friends knowing about it.A "Send" button that lets people share website links with selected cadres instead of all Facebook friends was among enhancements being rolled out to a "Groups" feature launched in October of last year.More than 50-million groups have been created at Facebook since the option became available."A year ago, we launched the 'Like' button, ...

Almost three weeks after an attack by the hacktivist group, Anonymous, Sony's PlayStation Network remains offline as the Japanese electronics giant works to rebuild the service that connected PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles to games, films, and other digital offerings.PlayStation Network and Qriocity streaming music service were turned off April 20 in the wake of an "external intrusion," according to Sony spokesman Patrick Seybold."I know you are waiting for additional information on when PlayStation Network and Qriocity services will be online," ...

The browser wars may come to a head at the end of 2012, according to a projection by Memeburn.Using data from reputable analytics company StatCounter, Memeburn analysed the current and future growth rates of the web's three main web browsers excluding Safari, namely Internet Explorer, Chrome and FireFox.StatCounter is a free service and has been in business for more than 10 years, reporting on over 10 billion page loads per month, collected from three million websites. The global ...

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Google's Larry Page and Wikileaks' infamous editor Julian Assange are among the online personalties to grace this year's Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The yearly list was released on Thursday Time.This year's list includes a number of people who are making their mark online as well people who have used technology to rocket into the spotlight. Notable examples include Newark Mayor Cory Booker who made excellent use of ...

Any list of the handsets that created the mobile phone industry will undoubtedly be filled with mobiles from Finnish mobile phone company, Nokia. However, for a long time now, Nokia’s power and desirability has been on a slow but steady decline.This was all famously noted in the leaked memo by Nokia’s newly appointed CEO, Stephen Elop earlier this year. At that same time, Nokia tentatively announced a much-anticipated deal with Microsoft. On Thursday, a bit earlier than expected, the ...

Although Vodacom has won the battle at the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), I think that it will lose the war. It’s fascinating how often the management of organisations get involved in their little skirmishes and lose total sight of the big picture.Although it seems to me that Cell C has in the past pushed its advertising and claims too far and has, by doing so, lost credibility, the reality in this case is that the Cell C offering is the ...

Facebook has recently launched a new community site called Facebook Studio – a platform for creative and innovative social media agencies and marketers to come together and share their ideas. The site not only serves as a showcase of the best marketing campaigns on Facebook, but allows the company to interact with agencies in a collaborative, creative learning space.“On Facebook Studio you can get recognized for your creativity, be inspired by your peers, and browse a collection of work ...