Archive for Consumer Technology

Dear Facebook – please add the useage time of our fans

Consumer Technology, Public Relations, Social Media on March 1st, 2010 No Comments

I am an administrator on quite a few Facebook fan pages. I use the platform with some of my clients depending on whether the platform fits the client’s communications strategy.
There are good things and bad things about Facebook. A good thing is it is constantly improving and looking to make its experience better. A bad [...]

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New property portal uses a social media strategy to secure critical mass

Consumer Technology, Marketing, Social Media on September 29th, 2009 No Comments

It is no surprise to any of us that the housing market, although picking up a bit in recent months, is still suffering from the dreaded R word. Many first time buyers have been struggling to get mortgages from banks and even long term property owners are finding it costly to sell. Well things might [...]

Pioneer launches the CDJ-2000

Consumer Technology on September 22nd, 2009 No Comments

The most exciting DJ product to enter the world of DJing in the last ten years was arguably the Pioneer CDJ 1000, well now Pioneer has launched its younger brother with more bells and whistles than ever. These new turntables have a mind blowing array of features and software. I had two CDJ 1000 MK [...]

Buying Facebook friends or Twitter followers – is wrong

Consumer Technology, Social Media on September 3rd, 2009 3 Comments

Are you looking to build up your Facebook friends or overall fan base on one of your pages? If you are, you will be pleased to hear that you don’t have to work hard on building better relationships with people anymore because you can now buy friends instead. Yes you heard me correctly, according to [...]

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Google launching a new operating system

Consumer Technology on July 8th, 2009 2 Comments

So last night Google announced that it is launching a new operating system to rival Microsoft. Google started life as a simple search engine focused on the quality of search results, with minimal advertising on its home page, and it grew its user base through good old word-of-mouth. Today it is a monster brand which [...]

A quick tip to protect your social media identities

Consumer Technology, Social Media on April 22nd, 2009 No Comments

Working in the magical world of social media, we are regularly looking to create accounts for clients across various social platforms and often – it is a well known client – we find that a particular account has been already taken by a cyber squatter.
To ensure a client’s identities are easier and quicker to find [...]

Oparla uses social media for its searches

Consumer Technology, Marketing, Public Relations, Social Media on April 16th, 2009 No Comments

I received an outreach approach this morning about a new search engine which has been launched to rival the likes of Google.
Oparla, which pays users to search, claims to use social media technology to provide a more accurate search. Visitors can rank sites, comment on results and message other users asking for advice.
The release [...]

My quick tip on how to get a cheap loan at just 2.9% today

Consumer Technology, News on February 24th, 2009 2 Comments

Ok I admit this is an unusual post for me, as it is off topic for once, but it is something I have found very useful so I wanted to share it.
If you are looking to borrow some money at the moment you will be looking around at loans of between 8-10% at the cheapest. [...]

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Are we seeing the death of email?

Consumer Technology, Social Media on December 16th, 2008 1 Comment

Have our inboxes grown too quickly? Is email passé? Are terms such as ‘Facebook me’ about to become the norm and kill email entirely?
I read an interesting article by Erik Qualman this morning about Generation Z no longer using email and using social networks instead.
Erik writes: “Just as people use Google as a verb — [...]

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Finally a perk in PR trialling the new Xperia X1

Consumer Technology, Social Media on October 7th, 2008 2 Comments

Now I will be honest I don’t get many perks in this job, so I thought this was worth a quick post as it brightened up my day. During the last few months we have been working hard on a number of new clients and projects – some which you may have heard about already. [...]