The size of the UK Internet audience grew by five percent from 36.9 million people in May 2009 to 38.8 million people in May 2010, according to a new report from the UK Online Measurement Company (UKOM).
Among the 1.9 million new Britons using the Internet, 1 million (53%) were at least 50 years old. (more…)
Social networks lead all other recruiting channels for planned investment by employers as the economy rebounds, according to a new survey by recruitment platform Jobvite.
The survey found 83 percent of respondents use or plan to use social networks for recruiting this year. LinkedIn (78%), Facebook (55%) and Twitter (45%) are the most popular social recruiting platforms, while MySpace is used by 5 percent of respondents. (more…)
Traffic mongers and general-purpose stats hounds now have another compelling reason to use Blogger: last night, a statistics tool called Blogger Stats was introduced, and believe it or not, it in some ways one-ups Google Analytics.
The first advantage of Blogger Stats is that it’s integrated, meaning Blogger users won’t have to deal with separate products and logins. The second improvement - and this is where the appeal to certain people lies - is that the stats relayed by the new tool are delivered in “near-real-time.” (more…)
LinkedIn users who are interested in what their professional contacts are thinking on a minute-to-minute basis should now find it much easier to track down their tweets. Late yesterday, LinkedIn upgraded its Tweets application by improving the app’s people-finding features.
That’s right - no more having to go to Twitter and perform a search every time you forge a connection on LinkedIn. Or worse yet, having to go to Twitter, perform a search, and sort through 2,031 Jim Smiths, comparing thumbnail pics and bios.
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The iPlayer, which is a popular video-on-demand service offered by the BBC in the UK, is getting a lot more social. A new beta version ties into both Facebook and Twitter (for starters), offering users the option to let friends know what they’re viewing and recommend different shows.
This integration was accomplished through the creation of a new login called a BBC iD, and it’s supposed to offer a bit beyond the standard click-here-go-there functionality, effectively creating a “social recommendation ecosystem.”
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Facebook has introduced new privacy settings aimed at making it easier for users to have more control over their personal information and what they share.
A new control now makes it easy to share on Facebook with friends, and friends of friends or everyone in one click. The settings are immediately applied and displayed in a grid. Users will be able to customize their settings to control their level of sharing. The settings will now appear on a single page.
Starting today, Google Wave becomes openly available to everyone as part of Google Labs. You no longer need an invitation to wave — simply visit wave.google.com and sign right in. Likewise, if you are a Google Apps administrator at a business, school or organization, you can now easily enable Google Wave for all your users at no extra cost (more on our Enterprise blog).
If running an SEO Campaign and pulling out all the stops to direct more traffic to your website, you must ensure your website is prepared. If you have a low quality site which doesn’t provide visitors with a quality experience, all of your SEO efforts will have been wasted and your online business will not be a success. The website your business has is of utmost importance and must be optimised correctly. This means the website must be ready not only for the search engines but more importantly, for your visitors too.
Do you know the importance of updating your blog regularly?
Blogging can be a productive part of any Search Engine Optimisation campaign. It has many advantages including helping businesses to communicate with their target audiences more effectively and driving targeted traffic to websites.
Twitter unveils advertising
Twitter has outlined how it plans to monetise its site with the launch of its first advertising model. (more…)
