Monthly archive for July 2010

Google Adds Places to Maps Android App

Thursday, den 29. July 2010

Google have been updating their Map App on Android quite frequently recently with the addition of a number of new features including a free GPS Navigation feature. The latest addition to Google Maps on Android is a new Places section which allows users to search for Restaurants, Petrol Stations, Hotels and more. Users can then [...]

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Celebrities clean up their pasts in Google, using Online Brand Reputation services

Thursday, den 29. July 2010

Celebrities and high profile figures are using online brand reputation management services to clean up their online search results.

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Yahoo and Bing working together

Tuesday, den 27. July 2010

Yahoo announced that they are already running tests on Yahoo’s search engine with Bing’s algorithm, for organic and paid results. They said that these tests will only be seen on a maximum of 25% of the U.S. searches. Yahoo and Microsoft’s mobile services are slowly integrating, same thing will happen with the search engines during [...]

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Microsoft Confirm Windows Phone 7 Manufacturers

Friday, den 23. July 2010

Microsoft have confirmed the manufacturers who will be launching with new Windows Phone 7 smartphones. The companies confirmed are HTC, Dell, Asus, Samsung and LG. Microsoft have planned a launch for Windows Phone 7 by Christmas time this year. With Windows Mobile now nearing the bottom of the Smartphone pile, this is a well needed [...]

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Foursquare…are you on it yet?!

Friday, den 23. July 2010

Foursquare, the location-based social media site, has now been around for over 6 months, but has it shaped up to expectations as the new kid on the social media block?  If you are thinking ‘Four what?!’, then let me re-cap… Foursquare is a geo-location based service that allows you to ‘check-in’ to places.  Checking-in is [...]

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Whats this?…….Faceboook?……500 million users??!!

Thursday, den 22. July 2010

YES, facebook has reached the 500 million user mark. Whats that i hear? Lets go for the 100 million? Well hold your horses, lets take a minute and reflect. Mark Zuckerberg’s Social Networking phenomenon is only a baby at 6years old and yet a third of the total poplulation in the UK have jumped on [...]

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Google’s Broad Match Modifiers

Wednesday, den 21. July 2010

In the US last week, Google launched  their new match-type the Broad Match Modifier (BMM). This is illustrated in the graphic below: Essentially this means that by adding a “+” in front of any of the words in your search term, that word (or its extremely close alternatives) will become a required word of the [...]

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Steve Jobs Says: People don’t use Mobile Search, they use Apps

Wednesday, den 21. July 2010

Google’s director of emerging platforms Mike Steib’s response: “Steve Jobs says that people don’t use mobile search; they use apps. What do you say to that?” Steib, laughing and shaking his head, responded, “Does Steve Jobs sit on panels and hear what Mike Steib has to say about mobile phones?”  “Bullsh*t! That’s what I say [...]

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Google Announce Changes to Image Search

Wednesday, den 21. July 2010

Yesterday Google held a press conference to introduce the new look to Google Image Search. The new image search includes the following new features: Dense tiled layout designed to make it easy to look at lots of images at once. We want to get the app out of the way so you can find what [...]

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The Dungeons Strike again with Great Advertising

Tuesday, den 20. July 2010

Our client The Dungeons has had another great PR coup. Their latest ad campaign was pulled off the tube for being to scary! To be honest they couldn’t have asked for anything better – if you’re scared of the advertising come check out one of the scariest  London Attractions Check out the scary advertising

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