Zombies vs Rural England
Awesome ad by Giff Gaff, a new mobile network trying to show that different doesn’t always have to be a bad thing. Great brand positioning and good use of Youtube ads to bring the theme of friendly/ helpful zombies to life!
Google+ gets updated
Regardless of your thoughts on the success (or flaws) of Google+ the new features announced at Google I/O 2013 have definitely changed the way the social network operates. The platform now boasts a sizeable 190m monthly active users and Google has integrated many of its…
900m Android activations and counting
900m Android devices have been activated to date according to Sundar Pichai, who runs SVP, Chrome and Apps at Google. “Google is very fortunate to have two large open platforms … two fast-growing platforms,” Roughly 2 years ago Android just clicked 100m activations and a year ago Android had…
Seen this? Vizify
Neat social media content aggregator Vizify brings together your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Foursquare data to paint a biography of your digital self. The graphics are nice, the layout is slick and iPad-friendly and creates a neat digital business card you can tie to a blog…
Tug at Digital Shoreditch 2013
Tug are presenting at the Future Brands event for Digital Shoreditch Festival 2013 to discuss Social Search and stir up debate about how social media and search engine results integrate. Following Google’s Search plus Your World update, natural search and social media have continued to…
On-line conversion IRL
Would it be as easy to find and purchase things in real life as it is on-line? Probably not, but that’s what Google’s latest UK ad for Analytics takes aim at. Inviting users to make use of Google’s website monitoring tool for insights into how…
Google+ 2nd biggest social network
Google+ has overtaken Twitter to become the second largest social network worldwide in active usage (next to Facebook). The GlobalWebIndex (GWI) indicates that the growth of Google+ shows “the immense opportunity of linking Google’s services through the G+ social layer” and says this is a key…
Facebook Home
Mark Zuckerberg announced the new mobile operating system “Facebook Home” yesterday which adds a “social layer” (driven by Facebook) that you can add to your Android phone. Facebook also launched a HTC phone (in tandem) called the “HTC First”. It’s being marketed as the first Android…
The mobile phone celebrates 40 years
40 years ago today the first mobile phone call was made on April the 3rd 1973. The first call was made by Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola who called a rival colleague at another telecoms company to tell him that he was speaking…
Chrome Maze turns web surfing 3D
Google has presented a new feature available on its browser, Chrome that turns any web page into a 3D maze users can explore by using their smartphone as a controller. This is a first step towards mobile device and desktop interconnectivity via the web. A…
