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Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:27
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Yomego Social
This week, Bayern Munich’s ‘new signing’ missed the target, while Tumblr’s David Karp netted in front of record crowds. McDonalds scored an own goal on the same platform that launched a censored version for China. All in all, it was a pretty busy week in social, and we’ve got it covered in our weekly serving of Social Soup.Social-BowlSuper Bowl XLVI organisers have realised the power of social media and the help it can provide in dealing with the madness that comes with managing the world’s biggest annual sporting event, by creating a 2800-sqaure-foot command centre in downtown Indianapolis.
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Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00
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Yomego Social
It’s been a very contentious week in social, with a number of major sites blacking out for 24 hours on Wednesday to campaign as a protest against SOPA, the controversial anti-piracy legislation being considered by the US Congress. But it’s not all doom and gloom, with Facebook getting a Brazilian, Google outing its new tilt and roll Maps game and the gap between search and social becoming that bit smaller.Shiver Me Timbers!So, SOPA (or the Stop Online Piracy Act to you and I) stole the headlines this week, with critics saying that it’s the proverbial sledgehammer to crack a nut.
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Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:23
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Yomego Social
From saying too much to not saying enough, it’s been a week of contrasts in the world of social. Have a gander at those who discovered that sometimes a truly connected world isn’t quite what it claims to be.Google+ plus Google plus Twitter = TroubleAfter failure to renew an existing deal whereby Twitter allowed tweets to appear as real-time results in Google’s core search engine, many were left wondering how Google would go about filling the void. As it turns out, Google decided to pick up the slack by using their own social media darling, Google+.
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