» Social media and the Blackberry Riots
10/08/11 12:42 from SEO Outsourcing
Shortly after President Hosni Mubarak stepped down from power, an activist told CNN that “Facebook was responsible for the success of the Egyptian people's uprising”. The revolution in Iran was attributed to Facebook, Tunisia t..

» Journalism rocked by News International scandal
14/07/11 12:17 from SEO Outsourcing
Way back, when Rupert Murdoch sanctioned the Times Online's blocking policy, calling the search engines “plagiarists” and “parasites,” and removed all of his content, leaving two million visitors a month without lin..

» Facebook rejoices at Mubarak departure?
14/02/11 04:40 from SEO Outsourcing
It is being claimed in many news sites that the fireworks that lit Cairo's skies and the joyous tears of the protesters which celebrated the end of ex-President Hosni Mubarak's 30 years of despotic rule, is curiously all down to Facebook. ..

» Is there a market for a social media consultant marketing RatKiller 3.0?
24/01/11 08:46 from SEO Outsourcing
A writer at LinkedIn posed the question: “Will businesses pay to have a social media consultant manage their Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc…In my opinion, most business owners don't have a clue where to start regarding social..

» Googlezon and a swan song for the Fourth Estate?
20/12/10 10:26 from SEO Outsourcing
In the spirit of Winston Smith, will “net neutrality” cease to function and will the “public internet” then become the mediascape for the poor at the finale of the evolving media wars? “Epic 2014″ coined..

» Symbiotic relationship between Google, the EU and dinosaurs
20/12/10 10:25 from SEO Outsourcing
Fittingly perhaps, at Googleplex there is a bronzed T-Rex skeleton nicknamed Stan, which is said to remind them to not become a digital dinosaur. But as EU regulators are set to probe Google for manipulating search results, the zone nears ..

» Twitter ye not, Europe is but another random meme
02/12/10 11:21 from SEO Outsourcing
In “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” by Charles Mackay, he treated many psychic states as that of the economically hackneyed word of today, “random”; the new bubble meme of demographic herd..

» Web Design Bangkok – an evolution of keyworded domains
05/11/10 07:20 from SEO Outsourcing
Back in the days when we started a Bangkok-based web design agency, there was little mention of keyworded domains. In those days, the ease of getting high placement was all about having good SEO and links. Not now. It was probably always t..

» Google's $5m charitable donation to the newspaper industry will surely not include Murdoch
28/10/10 08:55 from SEO Outsourcing
Google is to give $5 million dollars to organisations trying to find innovative ways to continue the practice of journalism, while estimates of traffic to News International sites' front pages has declined by 43% and the number viewing sto..

» Social media's rampacious herd: of gadgets, madness and crowds
15/10/10 09:58 from SEO Outsourcing
In Babbage's column this week, Virtual Lemmings, he argues that humans are a gregarious lot, which gives rise to herd mentality, while Will Self writes of superficial advances that provide us with more disposable time we just fill it up fi..