New social media warning from hiring professionals
Beware- hiring practices within many modern organisations today are placing greater emphasis on the social networking presence of candidates.Dyenamic Solutions has long been said that head hunters and...
View ArticleDangers of Twitter- nine fined for naming rape victim
Nine people have each been told to pay £624 to a woman raped by footballer Ched Evans after they admitted naming her on Twitter.Further to our post yesterday: New social media warning from hiring...
View ArticleFacebook to profit from your photos
Facebook has announced that it was start to seel your photos to advertisers- and that they will trouser the profits.Facebook has announced there would be a change to Instagram’s terms of service,...
View ArticleTwitter launches Vine video sharing service
Twitter has launched Vine- which lets users embed six second videos within their tweets.The service was used first by Twitter boss Dick Costolo, who posted a clip of himself making steak tartare....
View ArticleTwitter’s video social media Vine gets X rating
Surprise, surprise- as suggested by the Dyenamic Solution’s post last month Twitter launches Vine video sharing service in which we warned about potential content issues- Apple have re rated Twitter’s...
View ArticleBritish Library to store every UK website
The British Library and four other “legal deposit libraries’” will have the right to collect and store everything that is published online in the UK.It is estimated around a billion pages a year will...
View ArticleTwitter launches #musicservice with artist recommendations
Twitter has unveiled a new music app which will recommend tracks based on who you follow on the social network.Songs can be played directly in the app via services such as Rdio, Spotify and iTunes. The...
View ArticleYahoo to buy Tumblr for £723 million
Yahoo has agreed a deal to buy the blogging service Tumblr for £723 million ($1.1 billion). Yahoo’s chief executive Marissa Mayer said that as part of its promise “not to screw it up”, Tumblr would...
View ArticleSally Bercow’s Lord McAlpine tweet was libel
A tweet published by Sally Bercow about Tory peer Lord McAlpine was libellous, the High Court has ruled. Amid widespread speculation about his identity, she has Tweeted: “Why is Lord McAlpine trending....
View ArticleFacebook pays for sexism backlash from advertisers
Tens of thousands of protesters are demanding tougher action from Facebook over posts that they claim degrade women.More than 50,000 have tweeted in support of the FBrape campaign and around 5,000 have...
View ArticleFacebook paid £4,327 corporation tax in 2014
Facebook paid just £4,327 in Corporation Tax in 2014 the latest UK results show. Its most recent Companies House filing shows the company as making a pre tax loss of £28.5 million last year, but the...
View ArticleHow @ became used for emails
The death this week of Ray Tomlinson- the man widely regarded as the inventor of the email, raises the question of how the @ sign became used. The @ character is the symbol of the internet age- which...
View ArticleMartha Lane Fox joins Twitter’s board
Fellow Millenium Product award winner Martha Lane Fox has tweeted that she will be joining the board of Twitter. Baroness Lane-Fox tweeted that it would be her “best job ever”. Twitter has suffered...
View ArticleWeb firms pledge to tackle online hate speech
Microsoft, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook have pledged to remove hate speech within 24 hours, in support of a code of conduct drafted by the EU. The freshly drafted code aims to limit the viral spread...
View ArticleNew social media warning from hiring professionals
Beware- hiring practices within many modern organisations today are placing greater emphasis on the social networking presence of candidates.Dyenamic Solutions has long been said that head hunters and...
View ArticleDangers of Twitter- nine fined for naming rape victim
Nine people have each been told to pay £624 to a woman raped by footballer Ched Evans after they admitted naming her on Twitter.Further to our post yesterday: New social media warning from hiring...
View ArticleFacebook to profit from your photos
Facebook has announced that it was start to seel your photos to advertisers- and that they will trouser the profits.Facebook has announced there would be a change to Instagram’s terms of service,...
View ArticleTwitter launches Vine video sharing service
Twitter has launched Vine- which lets users embed six second videos within their tweets.The service was used first by Twitter boss Dick Costolo, who posted a clip of himself making steak tartare....
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