Search and Social get engaged – Bing and Facebook announce search partnership

{lang: ‘en-GB’} Interesting news coming out of the US tonight with Facebook announcing a eye-opening partership with Microsoft’s Bing search engine. Whilst we have got used to Google announcing a number of improvements during the course of the last 12 months – such as the recent Google Instant announcement – we haven’t heard alot from [...]

Google me looms on the horizon – but more like Google layers

{lang: ‘en-GB’} According to Eric Schmidt of Google, the service that we’ve all been waiting to see will start rolling out in the Autumn. Google’s social ‘tool’ provisionally named Google Me is coming, and will happen via a “social layer” added over the top of search, video and Google Maps. This would ultimately suggest a [...]

Succeeding in social media – 5 golden rules

{lang: ‘en-GB’} Social Media is hot, very hot and has been for a while. Many organisations are engaged with it, via a variety of sources whether that be Twitter, Facebook, Bebo or merely blogger relations – both large and small organisations alike. There have been some great successes in that time – in particular the [...]

Skittles pulls Twitter integration – Twitter down Facebook up

{lang: ‘en-GB’} In one of the bravest social media campaigns in recent times, Skittles turned over the shop space to the general public. Not their real shop space but their virtual one – and integrated their homepage with Twitter. This sent the blogospere and microblogging sites alight with buzz regarding the campaign, not least Twitter. [...]

Facebook releases HD Video

{lang: ‘en-GB’} A post a little of our normal path, however social media is integrated with a number of search marketing channels. Richard Scoble speaks to Chris Putnam, the software engineer at Facebook in charge of video regarding the release of its new HD Video feature. Worth a watch… (if not to hear about the [...]