Giving fans exclusive content - tips for your Facebook fan page
By dean, 5.04.11
If you have a Facebook fan page, a great tip for businesses is to have exclusive content on there.This is great (and a clever) way to get people to ‘like’ your page, as people want to know what the hidden content is. Potentially it could be, special offers or money…
Fun Facebook Profiles
By dean, 1.04.11
When researching press release websites I came across something completely unrelated but I thought it was pretty cool so here I am sharing it with you. Facebook are often making updates to their appearance, so click here to see some examples of how people are taking advantage of these changes…
Facebook tries to copyright the words face and book!
By lisa, 26.11.10
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has this week granted the social media giant Facebook a "notice of allowance" to trade mark the word "face". Apparently Facebook have a history of going after anyone who use "face" or "book" in their name - UTalkMarketing cites examples such as Teachbook…
New twitter site starts rolling out
By lisa, 15.09.10
Twitter have unveiled their new look site - and I think it looks pretty good! Of course the proof is in the using... I really like the way Twitter have managed the space on the screen - with show and hides you can give a user a lot of information…
How to put Facebook on your Site
By tom, 23.08.10
It's now easier than ever to share your website's content on Facebook, which could prove to be an excellent way of getting more visitor interaction on your site. Facebook has released a whole set of social plugins that let you do some really cool stuff, in many cases just by…
Twitter customer service from 123-reg
By lisa, 10.08.10
Yesterday I tweeted that I wasn't very happy with 123-reg auto-renewing a .com domain name for 2 years without my say so - and I just received a phone call from their customer services team to see if they could help resolve the issue. It wasn't the auto-renewal I had…
18a meet Facebook Developer Matt Kelly
By lisa, 22.07.10
We admit it. We're geeks. Which meant it was very exciting to meet Facebook Developer Matt Kelly (left in the pic, with our Technical Director Tom Freeman on the right) in San Francisco as part of our 18a Road Trip the other day. He was a lovely guy and it…
San Fransisco Facebook Developer Meetup
By tom, 17.06.10
As part of our epic US social media tour we're really excited to be meeting up with some Facebook developers and engineers from the other side of the pond at the San Fransisco Facebook Developer Meetup on June 28. It should be a great opportunity to discuss the new platform…
Lessons from Silicon Valley
By tom, 26.05.10
A really interesting video entitled, Lessons from Silicon Valley, popped into my inbox this morning, part of the latest businesszone.co.uk newsletter. Silicon Valley really does sound like a great environment for encouraging and nurturing startup potential. There's certainly a huge amount that both the UK business community and the government…