John Prescott, who is an unlikely fan of blogging, recently raised his profile through the use of twitter using it to post news about the Tories and NHS.
The politician is also planning to use social networking sites to try to get people involved in a global deal on climate change.
In his new role, Prescott is [...]

Twitter’s home page has been redesigned; the main focus of this overhaul was to demonstrate the power of Twitter as a discovery where users can find what is happening in real time through search and trends.
With this in mind Twitter’s co-founder Biz Stone believes it will lead new users to more compelling questions like “How [...]

Without a doubt June has been the most exciting month so far this year for the SEO community, a bunch of new products have been announced and introduced not to mention a new Search Engine, in case you missed all the action here is a quick round up of what happened.
In the beginning of the [...]

Keyword research is the first, and in my opinion the most important task in the search engine optimisation process, this is why you need as much data as possible on each keyword you are planning in implementing on your site.
First thing you need to know about a keyword is its search volume, the higher the [...]

Since its announcement Google Wave has dominated the pages of tech blogs and news sites all over the world, this is set to be Google’s biggest product launch in years.

Google Wave is a real time communication platform that combines aspects of email, wikis, web chat, social networking, project management and file sharing all in one [...]

Digg users received another surprise this past week as the shouts systems have been disabled; the days of selecting 200 of your most loyal friends and sending them a shout with your latest submission, are over.

The only way to share your submissions now is via email, Facebook, Twitter or IM. I’m not sure [...]

Talk about social networking and not mention Twitter is almost impossible to avoid these days, Twitter has been boosting impressive statistics in the past year or so, like a 1382% growth, but like many other social network sites, it seems people are losing interest after one month.
According to a stat tracking company, Twitter’s retention is [...]

Google Profiles generated a lot of noise in the past week, the Google Profiles have been around since the end of 2007 and last week Google updated the service so users can add all sorts of information about themselves, like:

Their picture
Their first and/or last name
Your nickname
Where you grew up
Where you live
Where you work
Schools you’ve attended
A [...]

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the new DiggBar and Digg’s shorten URL service and how unpopular it became within the Digg community, not so much for the shorten URL service, that seems to be working just fine and Twhirl is now using the same service.
Digg promised to release an update to the [...]

The car brand has decided to focus their marketing budget on natural search and social media marketing to reinforce its ‘Life is better lived together’ brand positioning.
Last year Volvo spent £19.75m on advertising, excluding paid search and internet accounted for just 3% of this, or £695,500.
Volvo UK’s head of marketing communications, Anita Fox said that [...]

Over the last couple of weeks a lot of buzz has been coming from the top social networking communities, from framed content to who will be the first to reach 1 million followers on Twitter. Here is a quick a round up of what’s been going on.

Leading the pack we have Digg.com who launched the [...]

Over the past few weeks a lot of buzz has being going on in the Social Networking world, with sites like StumbleUpon releasing a new sharing tool and Digg removing user’s profile links and then putting them back, in this post I’ll give you a quick round up of what’s being happening.
Lets start with Digg, [...]