Will Pay to Play threaten Net Neutrality?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, by now you will have heard of “net neutrality” and that a lot of people are saying that this is under threat and we should fight to preserve it. But what exactly does net neutrality mean, what are the implications of not having it, and what current proposals would infringe on it? What Is Net Neutrality? Currently you pay an Internet Service Provider (ISP) a fee for a broadband,...
Why Blogging Everyday Could Be Harming Your Success
Including a blog on your website has always been a great way of driving traffic, especially when you sell products or offer a service. The content can be shared through your social media profiles, picked up by the search engines for organic traffic, and it may even go viral on sites like Reddit. But how often should you blog? The old consensus was the more content the merrier. You should blog everyday or multiple times a day for the...
PopJam: The Social Network For Kids
In theory the leading social media sites are restricted to 13 year olds and up. However in practise this is just a legal safeguard, as data suggests more than half of under 10s have used the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, with many of them regularly logging in. Some parents set these up for their children or allow them to “play” with their adult accounts. Children at the older end of the scale are also more than...
More People Watch Youtube Than Television?
Youtube is now more popular than traditional television in the United States, according to a new survey of 2,000 people from Adroit Digital. 68% of those asked said they watched more video content from Youtube than any other platform. 51% were still avid TV watchers, and 49% spent most of their viewing time with Netflix. The prerequisite for the survey was that participants owned a PC and a smartphone, which may exclude some TV...
Emotions Experiment: Facebook Caught In Lie Over Data Use Policy?
When controversy hit Facebook earlier this week for secretly carrying out an experiment that sought negative and positive emotional responses from users, they pointed critics to their Data Use Policy, which listed research as a possibility: “… we may use the information we receive about you for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research and service improvement.” However it has...