Although described as a novel approach to social discovery, at a more careful analysis, TipTap is a Pinterest clone. The only difference between the two startups are some quizzes that allegedly create better user profiles and help users understand themselves and connect with others like them.
Google, AOL, Facebook, Twitter and the IAB formed a partnership aimed at fighting bad ads on the Internet. StopBadware, a nonprofit organization launched in 2006, announced the launch of the Ads Integrity Alliance created to fight bad ads and maintain trust in the online advertising ecosystem.
Facebook has rolled out Aggregated Topic Clusters — an update that groups News Feed posts by subject and links them to the corresponding Fan Page, using Natural Language Processing to make the connection.
Three social-media crises from the past six months — Kenneth Cole's Cairo tweet, Chrysler's F-bomb, and the American Red Cross rogue tweet — show how the mechanics of brand crisis response are being rewritten in 2011. Velocity, silence, and the screenshot that outlives the deletion.
Qwiki raised $9.5M from Eduardo Saverin, Jawed Karim, and Pradeep Sindhu in 2011 on the thesis of narrative-as-answer instead of search. Yahoo acquired and shut it down in 2013-2014. ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini delivered the vision a decade later.
Online influence used to mean follower counts and viral posts. Now it means being the answer when a buyer asks the question. The mechanic, the named anchors, and how to measure it.
Google and Facebook are the two largest attention platforms on the internet. Google is intent traffic. Facebook is discovery traffic. How brands should split the budget between them.
The modern web is interactive, social and connected. Corporate sites are that mandatory online brochure people browser over by choice. But when a visitor wants more, the best way to provide information is via a press site, a news site or a corporate blog.
WPP — the London-headquartered holding company that was the world's largest from the late 1980s through November 2025, when Omnicom-IPG took the top spot. Full profile of WPP's PR and public affairs footprint (Burson Global, Ogilvy, FGS), the 2009 recession inflection, and the 2026 Burson sale process.
The bra colour meme, Vitaminwater Connect, and Pepsi Refresh — three January 2010 Facebook campaigns and what the PR function should take from them.