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Niche Social Networks - Future Of Social Media?

Author: Ian McLellan

I’ve been a recent convert to Twitter, the endearing social phenomena, and found it very enjoyable if a little light on substance. For the uninitiated, you ‘tweet’ your friends (or followers as they are known) with short, (140 character) messages, informing others of your whereabouts, thoughts etc.

And that’s it. Nothing more.
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Creative industry as powerful as the financial services industry in the UK?

“In five years’ time, the creative industries [in the UK] could be as powerful as the financial services industry has been for the last 10 or 15 years,”

As snow threatens on a cold, grey day in the financial services capital, Sunday’s Observer offers a silver-lining for us creative types.

Communications minister, Lord Carter’s unveils a plan for a multi-billion-pound, high-speed broadband network, promising to turn the country into a digital nirvana by the time the London Olympics start.

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Duplicate Content and Search Engines

I was ironing out some permission problems with a WordPress install the other day when I learned a little more about the .htaccess file.

If search engines find both www and non-www links from other sites to your site, they may treat http://YourSite.com and http://www.YourSite.com as two different websites with the same content. Trevor Ginn from Vendlab advised me a while back that a site could be penalised for duplicate content.
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Online brands and How Businesses can use Social Networking

Dan and I discuss Online Brands and some things to look out for with context sensitive advertising. I chat with Nick Butler of http://www.kyte.tv/loudmouthman about Social Networks and how businesses could be using them.

New Brand Media in Top 69 Media Brands

We were quite chuffed when New Brand Media was included in a recent Top 69 Media Brands list.

I designed the identity 4 years ago when I started, just a personal blog about this ’social web’ phenomenon. However, we have recently celebrated the first year as New Brand Media Ltd and for the first time I’ve had just a brief breather to reflect and turn my sloppy, half-hearted blog into what I hope will increasingly be a tool that really works for our business – still a long way to go I know!

Let us what you think of the new site?