News

Get Airport VIP status with your Klout Score

klout

American Airlines is giving those with a social media presence an opportunity to get a free pass to their Admirals Club lounge. Klout, one of many social media measurement tools, allows users to get a score based on your online reach. Contributing factors include the number of networks you’re signed up to, the amount of [...]

Read more →

No comments

BlackBerry CEO Claims Tablets Will Be Dead in Five Years

blackberry, blackberry phone, blackberry tablet, tablets are dead, tablets vs smartphones, smartphones vs tablets, travel jobs, jobs in travel, jobs, jobs in london, london jobs, recruitment, travel recruitment,

Thorsten Heins, the Chief Executive at BlackBerry has announced that in his opinion tablet devices like the iPad will become obsolete. “In five years I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore…Tablets themselves are not a good business model.” While the BlackBerry tablet device was underpowered and poorly reviewed, Samsung, Apple [...]

Read more →

One comment

Facebook Search App – BETA

Screenshot_2013-04-24-13-04-08

Written by Ian Brooks I had the pleasure of listening to Facebook’s Global Head of Travel, Lee McCabe, talking about their ambitions in the travel sector with their “Nearby” service that runs off the Facebook App. As you can see from the image on my phone I did a local search for hotels close to [...]

Read more →

No comments

What is a Bitcoin and Why Should I Care?

Image courtesy of zcopley via Flickr

I’ve been reading tweets and the occasional headline about a thing called ‘Bitcoin’ and I largely ignored them. While I understood it was a new thing in online currency, I didn’t give it much time as a news topic. However, it appears that people are getting very excited about the scheme. Bitcoin is unlike other [...]

Read more →

No comments

LinkedIn ‘Mentions’ and Facebook OS layers

Image courtesy of LinkedIn

As LinkedIn becomes more and more used as an everyday social network, the professionally-aimed site has announced that they will be adding a ‘mention’ tool, similar to the already available ability on Facebook and Twitter. This will be to engage your connections in status posts and for getting your friends involved in a conversation. The [...]

Read more →

No comments

How a Colour Change United Facebook for Equality

You may have noticed that since Tuesday, your friends and a few celebrities have changed their profile photos to a red square with two parallel pink lines. This is the Human Rights Campaign’s logo with a new colour change, originally blue and yellow but changed as pink is associated with love, which is what the [...]

Read more →

No comments

1 Billion Monthly Users, Still Not a Social Network

youtube-logo, youtube, youtube logo large

YouTube were excited to announce that they have reached the landmark of one billion active monthly users, only six months after Facebook made the same claim. Embedded video clips have become a marketing mainstay and are an infinitely vital tool for staying informed and being entertained. Brands and individuals are equally able to engage audiences [...]

Read more →

No comments