Digital Citizens – Rethink Privacy
When we first join social networking sites such as Facebook, we enthusiastically create our profile, pouring personal data into fields, checkboxes and personal pages. We join “networks”, add...
View ArticleFacebook Bait and Switched My Life
Today is Quit Facebook Day – and I am in two minds. On the one hand, Facebook has been great, I have been able to easily connect to people all over the world, keeping in touch with their daily updates,...
View ArticleWhat Facebook’s Year in Review Reveals About Us
The promise of big data is that it can reveal to us the truth in our behaviours, not just our beliefs. Just think, for example, about your internet use over the last year. Or month. Or even week. What...
View ArticleInstagram Dumps Early Adopters for a Shot at the Mainstream
When Instagram burst onto the scene with its mobile only platform and funky photo filters it came armed with a secret. It wasn’t just about the photos. Sure, the vast range of photo filters were...
View ArticleComing Soon to a Google Ad -> You
A couple of years back, Facebook changed their terms of service that allowed your images to start appearing in contextual advertisements offered across the social network. More recently, they announced...
View ArticleMore Waves of Digital Disruption: From DoubleClick to Twitter via Facebook
When DoubleClick launched their self-service advertising network it was a revelation. It provided marketers with a powerful sense of control over their advertising, its placement and spend. At the...
View ArticleFacebook Charts the Course to 2025
#474640369 / gettyimages.com Strong third quarter earnings were posted by Facebook this week, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg set the stage for a year of investment ahead, with a ten year horizon. Facebook’s...
View ArticleBy the Numbers: Facebook in Australia
No doubt you’ve seen them huddling around the bottoms of buildings, near the entrances and exits. On the benches and in the cafes. Their eyes are downcast, their heads bent, shoulders hunched. A...
View ArticleFacebook Steps in to Train Journalists
Software companies have built and scaled their businesses by creating and nurturing developer ecosystems for decades. They start with a few, dedicated and passionate evangelists and stoke that passion...
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