Facebook forced all individual profile users to have a Timeline from December 2011 and it was anticipated then that Timelines would be incorporated into Fan Pages. Yesterday, anticipation became reality as Facebook announced a 30-day window for companies to prepare for Timelines for Fan Pages with a forced switchover on March 30th 2012. The timeline feature is your entire Facebook history from the date that… Read more…
The big news story this week has been the shock resignation of England manager Fabio Capello. To see how social media reacted to his surprise resignation I used social media monitoring tool Brandwatch to see who the public want to take over for this summer’s European Championships. Just hours after Harry Redknapp was found not guilty of tax evasion Fabio Capello handed in his resignation… Read more…
As Facebook forces all individual profile users to have a Timeline from this Thursday (22ndDec 2011), we take a look at this new feature and ask what it means for businesses and their Like Pages. The timeline feature is your entire Facebook history from the date that you joined in reverse chronological order. What’s included will be determined by what you posted and how many… Read more…
Can we use social media to predict what will be the best selling toy of Christmas 2011? It’s no surprise that Christmas time is big business for toy manufacturers and retailers. In-demand Christmas toys have resulted in parents queuing up all-night outside shops to secure the likes of Teletubbies, Furbies and Buzz Lightyears. It’s no surprise then, that retailers often use forecasting techniques to predict… Read more…
This is my final post in the series about UX Brighton 2011 and is an overview of the last two talks which both looked at different aspects of the future of design Giles Colborne started his talk on how distraction affects design by accusing designers of killing their users. His evidence of this was the recent Blackberry outage which led to a big drop in… Read more…
