Posts under ‘Social Networking’

In advance of the next Tweetinglegals tweet up on 17 Jan here are a few pieces of information that might interest those attending. The venue Old Bank of England, is mid way between Chancery Lane and Bell’s Yard in Fleet Street. As you walk into the grand pub room bear right towards the bar, and [...]

The London riots brought chaos to the city for a few nights, and at times the looting and violence spread faster than news sites could keep track of them, leaving many to turn to social media for their source of news. Often TV coverage became unreliable, and the BBC played looping footage of past events, [...]

Thank you to all those who took the time to complete a survey on twtpoll on your experience of the 15 August tweet up. We received some excellent feedback from those who attended, but the survey is no longer available to detail here.  The results indicated you felt the organisation and the running of the [...]

In the wake of the riots, which have spread throughout England, many are blaming social media as being the tool used to orchestrate the violence and destruction. We have previously written about the Student Protests and the revolution in Egypt, and the role social media played in each of these events. Now we have yet [...]

Twitter last week announced that the old version of its interface will be completely replaced by the new version. The company stated in their official Twitter feed, ‘If you’re currently using the Old Twitter, we want to let you know that you’ll be upgraded to New Twitter this week’. Twitter has warned users of the [...]

There is much speculation as to whether Google’s social network, Google Plus could be the next big thing in Social Media.  Last week we discussed Google’s naming strategy Here we will explore what people are saying about Google Plus. Trial service Google Plus launched with a trial service which only those invited to were able [...]

Tweet ups are when we take our online relationships offline and meet the faces behind the avatars. There is an appetite for more regular tweet ups so, later in this blog, I’ll mention some ideas for a trial run of regular London tweet ups. @Legalaware who was very quick off the mark reporting the recent [...]

A Californian corporation has been contracted by the US Central Government to develop an “online persona management service”. Apparently, they want to detect terrorists and extremists overseas.  One way they intend to do this is by creating different online identities and manipulating social media sites and blog posts. The service being developed will allow one [...]

The Data Protection Act (DPA), which is the backdrop for privacy protection in Europe, was born in the pre- web2.0 era; before the innovation of social media. New challenges are being posed by new technologies and one study (by RAND) commissioned by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) last year concluded that, “in an increasingly global, [...]

How safe is your twitter account username? Today I discovered that Twitter transferred the account #girlgeeks to the trade mark owner of the name even though the latter had only registered a logo mark incorporating the words (see image) a year ago.  A logo mark does not give exclusive rights over the word mark. What’s [...]