Ed’s News and views for the week!
Facebook Flotation
Today has seen the historical flotation of Facebook. Having pushed there their estimated valuation to £100bn +, I cannot help but be sceptical and think that this is a little ambitious and could potentially be losing a lot of people money. Sure enough though with an oversubscribed IPO it will be an interesting tale to unfold. At the launch today in true Facebook style engineers had hacked the NASDAQ button so that as Mark Zuckerberg rang the bell, an automatic post would be sent via mobile to his Facebook timeline declaring his new listing. Here’s how they did it
Mobile Traffic
Twitter has now reached 10m users in the UK alone, that’s the fourth biggest following of any country in the world. More interestingly is our percentage usage via mobile being considerably higher than the rest of the world with 80% of us Brits logging in via mobile, with London being the Twitter capital of the world according to many industry experts. read more here
Internet Security
As the world becomes an ever more digitally orientated place and we all rely more on the web for our everyday activities, the potential risk for disaster and expense to businesses due to cyber attack can now be immense, with costs reaching in excess of $10, 000 per hour. Read More here
Everyone’s got one!
So it seems everyone has got one these days, a mobile app that is. This time it’s the turn of Olympic hopeful Tom Daily. Already one of the more media savvy Olympians Tom is hoping to raise awareness for the sport with his new app game read more about it all here
Cool Campaign
Here’s a cool augmented reality campaign from Absolute Vodka. An app that coincides with Google street to allow you to create your own street art wherever you are. The cooler bit is that you can get your image put onto a personalised bottle of Vodka check out the video here
Latest tweets
- Leading online sports/gaming agency seeking product owner/ producer £32-35k Read More here>>http://t.co/SCTJhJUb
4:11, 18 May - Digital agency specialises in pharma comms seeking innovative Producer/ PM £35-40k Read More>> http://t.co/w7NNdOXc
1:58, 18 May - Boutique strategic marketing agency - London seeking Integrated Account Manager £35k DOE Read More>> http://t.co/EXnUpJsi
1:55, 18 May - Digital Project Manager - Great digital strategy and service design agency £45k - £55k J1993 >> Read more here: http://t.co/d2likgRj
1:50, 18 May - Andy is cool. Fact. http://t.co/ZX7ioQ8k
4:04, 15 May - View Twitter page