December 2010
23 posts
Twitter’s improved offering for businesses →
We previously wrote about Twitter’s new approach to advertising as it became apparent just how they were going to monetise the site through strategic advertising options such as…
Social Media – The Eyes Have It →
This is the first post by Simply Zesty CEO Ken Fitzpatrick. He will be writing here on a regular basis and he is one smart cookie
A famous bank robber was once asked why he robbed…
4 New Linkedin Features That Will Help Companies... →
I’ve been watching Linkedin closely recently and they seem to be rapidly adding features that are improving the experience for users. Let’s be honest and say that the site was coming from a place…
New Linkedin Tool Lets You Create Your... →
Linkedin have been stepping things up over the last 6 months and really improving the features that we all use on a daily basis and they have just launched a feature that will be useful to the…
Cranking It Up A Level At Simply Zesty →
Things are starting to ramp up here at Simply Zesty in our new offices as this week we’ve finished building our new studio that means we can take our video production to a whole new level. We…
New Facebook settings damage Page owners →
Facebook have rolled out a recent change to their privacy settings that could seriously impact page owners and their ability to respond to comments. Over the last few hours reports have…
Fiverr – Get Cool Stuff Done For You And Your... →
I was looking around at the weekend for an online service like Mechanical Turk to get a large menial job done online when I came across a brilliant site called Fiverr. As the name…
The Mac App Store – The Next Big Gold Rush? →
We’ve known that the Mac app store has been coming for some time now and it sounds like it could land in the next couple of weeks or worst case scenario early next year. There was a fair bit of…
Why Google Should Eye Up An Instagram Acquisition →
Google has been fairly active in buying up companies in the last year in the social space and was just this week eyeing up a $6 billion acquisition of group buying site Groupon. The…
What do brands of the future look like? →
There’s no doubt that social media is changing and evolving rapidly – and brands are constantly exploring new ways to make social media work for them. At the moment we’re still in the…
F%*King Brilliant – Gordon Ramsay Brings HD Video... →
One of the world’s biggest and most popular chef’s Gordon Ramsay has just launched an iPad app that promises to help you through your cooking in the kitchen with a series of professional…
How To Get The New Facebook Profiles Right Now →
Yet another big announcement from Facebook today with the launch of new profiles. I’ve only been playing with them for a couple of hours but I have to say I am very impressed and these is a…
Has mobile commerce arrived? →
Online commerce is a pretty interesting place at the moment – more consumers are getting used to buying on Facebook and another area that’s witnessing huge growth is mobile commerce. As…
Youtube Counts Down The 31 Biggest Viral Videos... →
We all love a good viral video and with such an explosion in content appearing on Youtube this year it only seems fitting that Youtube are using December to count down the 31 biggest videos of…
7 Simple Ways To Create Amazing Blog Posts In Less... →
We’ve discussed the merits of blogging here on numerous occasions but no matter how often we do the one thing that I always hear from people is that they just don’t have the time to blog. People…
10 Ways In Which The Media Industry Is Embracing... →
We all know how much of a growth curve Twitter has been on over the last couple of years and if there is one industry that has embraced it with great gusto it is the various strands of the media…
Facebook change their promotion rules →
When Facebook introduced a complete change to their competition guidelines last year, it left lots of Facebook page owners in the lurch. If you chose to play by the rules it meant that…
Amazing 3D images on Flickr →
Every now and again something comes along along online that is just so stunning and really makes you stop and wonder at what’s possible with all the content we’re creating through social media. This…
The worst case of customer service online →
Last night I read one of the most shocking examples of customer service that I have ever heard about. What was even more shocking was that the person behind this knew exactly what he was…
10 Of The Best Sports Viral Videos Created By... →
People around the world are obsessed with sports and big brands are tapping in to that craze by using some of the world’s biggest sports stars to create off beat videos that are shared…