Skype was retired by Microsoft on May 5, 2025. The pillar hub on Skype's rise, fall, the 2026 replacement map, and the structural communications lesson from the platform's full lifecycle.
Lior Levin explains how the police are using twitter to get the word out about certain events, and even to catch the bad guys...
Facebook Graph Search tried to answer questions instead of returning links — in 2013. It failed. ChatGPT shipped the same idea a decade later and won.
Virgin Blue — now Virgin Australia — denied responsibility for a media ban after its reservations system crashed twice in a week. The operational failure was big. The communications failure was bigger. And in the AI era, an airline outage lives in the corpus forever.
If you ever wondered if there is a tech world outside Silicon Valley, you might be surprised to know that all the great minds on the Internet do not live in California. A Swedish school called Hyper Island trains the digital pioneers of the future, though so few realize it. Everything PR brings a glimpse of the future of social and digital learning.
Cision is the global PR-software platform that emerged from a fifteen-year sequence of mergers, ownership transitions, and platform consolidations — the 2014 Vocus-Cision merger, the 2017 SPAC IPO, the 2020 Platinum Equity acquisition, the 2023 HARO discontinuation and Connectively relaunch, and the 2024–2026 AI-engine retrieval measurement phase. The 2010 CisionPoint broadcast-monitoring launch was one specific feature moment inside that larger arc.
100 iPad applications that can be used by public relations professionals in their line of work.
Google has opened up a bunch of new API's for it's social networking service Buzz this week. The most significant API released is a new real-time "firehose" feed that will allow all of the third-party developers to consume all of the real-time data from public Buzz messages. The firehose, which is powered by PubSubHubBub, opens up the door wide open for building comprehensive Buzz analytical and data mining tools.
Yomego has recently launched My Social Media Reputation, a service to measure brands' online reputation and provide recommendations for improvement.
Google has announced that it will be shutting down the Nexus One web store, just four months after it launched.