Christmas is traditionally a very sociable time of year – and never more so than 2008 according to Hitwise, because millions of us were being very sociable indeed – on-line that is. So now that the tinsel and turkey sarnies are nothing more than a rapidly fading memory, it’s probably a good time to look [...]

Well, a YouTube channel at any rate. It’s dedicated entirely to Google’s free, on-line Google Analytics service which allows web marketers and content managers the ability to track and measure their website traffic and visitor trends. Specifically aimed at helping users master Google Analytics, the only surprise here is that they didn’t do it sooner [...]

I was watching BBC Click this morning about the evolution of the social network and it drove me to take a peek at Brownbook. I thought it was a clever idea using social networking to list businesses with the added benefit of customers being able to write a review. It’s a simple site to use [...]

It’s official, Mars are the first advertisers to sell actual products on Facebook. The application will launch on Valentine’s Day and is called Celebrate. The service will enable users to buy actual Mars gifts which can be redeemed at participating stores through the use of a scanable, unique mobile voucher ID. A user on the [...]

50,000 Facebook members have forced the social networking site to change the way their controversial ad system works. The site, which has 55 million users, according to Wikipedia, was forced to alter or abandon its Beacon advertising technology. When a Facebook user shopped online, the system [Beacon] told friends and businesses what they had looked [...]

Sadly Google lost out this time when Microsoft paid £117m for just a 1.6% stake in Facebook. Taking advantage of the social networking site’s success, Microsoft will also sell internet ads for Facebook outside of the US as part of the deal. This will help Facebook in its aim to become an advertising magnet for [...]