Social networking

Social networks: Macau loves Facebook, Estonia into diversity

People in the tiny Asian nation of Macau love Facebook. No seriously, around 90% of them check the social network on their phone at…

Stuart Thomas Social • 3 Dec 2012

Mindshift: how crowdsourcing allows for disruption and new ideas

In a recent Memeburn article, Preshan Segers sheds light on where ideas come from and how they are ultimately crowdsourced. But it was only…

Jacques Coetzee: Staff Reporter Social networking • 15 Nov 2012

The online freedom of speech pickle: it’s only getting more complicated

Figuring out when trolling becomes dangerous abuse or when a deeply held political opinion comes hate speech is difficult. Add in factors like anonymity…

Vanessa Clark Future Trends • 12 Nov 2012

Superstorm Sandy sees Instagram set new record

Hurricane Sandy, and Instagram photos tagged with #sandy, “was probably the single largest event taking place that was captured on Instagram,” said CEO Kevin…

Stephan Lourens News • 6 Nov 2012

Puns, goths and memes: 10 Tumblrs you have to read

Now that calm has been returned to the blogosphere, after Tumblr’s recent six-hour outage, we thought this would be a good time to take…

Vanessa Clark Social networking • 5 Nov 2012

Decoding the social influence enigma: Q&A with Klout’s Joe Fernandez

It must be difficult being Joe Fernandez. He is the founder of Klout: the social media analytics startup that measures users’ influence across their…

Mich Atagana Interviews • 12 Oct 2012

Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter — 3 big moves from 3 big players

Latest news on the interwebs is that Facebook has just hit one-billion users, and launched its first brand ad, LinkedIn has just launched an…

Megan Bernstein Social networking • 10 Oct 2012

Second Life in desperate need of a second life

The value of Linden Lab, which operates the virtual world Second Life, has plunged by more than 21%, according to SharesPost, which tracks the…

Tom Foremski: In Silicon Valley Social networking • 26 Aug 2010

Find your privacy comfort zone before using location-based services

Location-based services like Google Latitude, Foursquare, Gowalla and, more recently, Facebook Places (currently rolling out gradually to US users) are tremendously useful and fun…

Paul Jacobson Social networking • 25 Aug 2010

Five easy ways to cross promote your social media content

If you’re using multiple social media platforms to promote your business, it makes sense to cross promote the media you generate through the various…

Catherine Parker Blogs • 28 Jul 2010

Interview: Obami founder Barbara Mallinson on startups and e-learning

With her own savings, support from friends, and the backing of a UK Government Grant, South African entrepreneur Barbara Mallinson founded Obami, a social…

Staff Reporter Conferences • 26 Jul 2010

Facebook goes for the LinkedIn crowd with new app, BranchOut

Facebook has clearly grown weary of losing business-oriented members to social networking rival LinkedIn, and have decided to do something about it. That paradigm…

Jeremy Daniel Facebook • 21 Jul 2010

Foursquare predicts we’ll soon be searching for where, not what

The next few months could see Foursquare going into partnership with either Google, Yahoo or Microsoft as they seek to assert their dominance over…

Jeremy Daniel News • 20 Jul 2010

Don’t like Facebook? Build your own social network

Social networking has become a huge phenomenon, with a couple of big players dominating the market. Yet if one looks around the web you’ll…

Jacobus van Eeden Facebook • 16 Jul 2010

11 world-wide social networks you may not have heard of

The overwhelming power of the English-speaking media would have you believe that social networking services such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace are the only…

Jacobus van Eeden Social networking • 15 Jul 2010

5 ways to leverage LinkedIn beyond finding a job

The advantages of using LinkedIn as a recruitment tool have already been widely written about. Through its online CV format and “friend of a…

Catherine Parker Social • 15 Jul 2010

Is Google launching a new rival to Facebook?

Rumours are flying on the internet that Google is about to go head-to-head with Facebook with a new social network called “Google Me”. If…

Matthew Stone: Columnist Google • 2 Jul 2010

Social networks, blogs account 22% of all time online, say Nielsen

Visiting social networks and blogs now account for every four and a half minutes spent online, according to the authoritative Nielsen Company, a leading…

Staff Reporter Blogs • 25 Jun 2010

CNN, Foursquare team up to connect World Cup fans

Putting soccer fans at the heart of its 2010 FIFA World Cup coverage, CNN has checked in with location-based social network Foursquare to connect…

Nur Bremmen: Staff reporter News • 11 Jun 2010

Why companies are failing at social media

Social media in the corporate environment, both from an internal and external perspective is taking on greater importance in the South African market. Some are…

Yoav Tchelet Social • 26 May 2010

Facebook cartoon ‘fight’ highlights divisive nature of social media

On Thursday morning we awoke to the news that Pakistan had blocked Facebook. The reason Pakistan did this was because a fan page appeared…

Andrew October News • 21 May 2010

7 reasons why Foursquare will kick ass

What is the point of Foursquare? This is exactly the question that was being asked a year or two back about Twitter. Who wants…

Walter Pike Social networking • 20 May 2010

5 easy steps to optimise your site for social media

An entire industry has grown up around Search Engine Optimsation (SEO), but increasingly Facebook and Twitter are sending as much and sometimes more traffic…

Alistair Fairweather: Columnist Facebook • 4 May 2010

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