The instant polling platform PopTip which launched in June last year for Twitter has just made good on its promise to build out a Facebook version. Wish you’d thought of it? Not to put too fine a point on it, PopTip is the kind of product
Shel Israel was there at the beginning and he’s got some interesting views on where social is going to go. Writer, communications expert, blogger and social media pro Shel has been helping businesses tell their stories for more than 30 years –starting as a print reporter
Being bounced into going public with your product by a Facebook rival may not seem like the most propitious of starts, but social startup Swipp is making a brave fist of it. Facebook has just launched a similar product called “Graph Search”, a move which prompted
The e‑commerce platform Gumroad, which lets individuals sell anything they like through a simple link, has substantially tweaked its publishing platform to include new features. The startup is determined to modernize e‑publishing by ditching many of the traditional approaches still in use today, much of
Facebook’s IPO last year didn’t exactly catch the world on fire as expected; but if social media didn’t turn in an Oscar-winning performance in 2012, venture capitalists and other startup gurus have got mobile advertising in their sights as the potential big star of 2013. Ted