See this year’s webby award winners to see what’s considered the best of the bunch by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Science. The awards are in their 15th year, and have geographic spread and recognise large and small sites alike.
You can sign up to be included in the 2012 calls for entries.

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London social media agency Yomego caused a stir earlier this week with their new social media reputation tool’s league table’s revelation.
Their new benchmark rates brands’ social media reputation by evaluating (1) noise = reach, (2) popularity = satisfaction, (3) topicality = recent post, plus some good old fashioned (4) human analysis and come up with […]

Digital Book World 2011 predicted that by 2014, ebooks will outsell books in print by 2014. This is only two full years away. The growth of the ereader and availability of digital books has exploded and changed the future, already.
As reading moves to digital plus print buying online, the physical shop can’t survive. […]

At the start of February 2011 the remaining IPv4 addresses were distributed equally to the five global regional agencies.
IPv4’s IP addresses are running out, less than 11% remain. These will be taken up quickly. Read the official press release here: http://www.nro.net/news/ipv4-free-pool-depleted
Internationally, demand is exceeding supply. There is an increase in […]

Dear God,
My prayer for 2011 is for a fat bank account & a thin body.
Please don’t mix these up like you did last year.
AMEN
Hat tip to the author Jennifer Gaff for sharing the above. We wish you a wonderful 2011.
New Year

Our client Alex Bougex has taken his family on a road trip of a life time across America, Mexico to return home 10 months later to Canada. They are staying in touch with the business, friends and family on the road using a softphone in conjunction with Openface’s VOIP service.
You can see […]

WordPress fans, of which we are, that can’t make the WordCamp conference this weekend in San Francisco should visit the WordPress hub to see if they are coming to a city near you soon.

wcsf, WordCamp, wordpress

There seems to be a constant theme appearing in all the top tips for successful social networking - engagement with the audience. Communication must be both ‘push’ and ‘pull’ - two way. Ask by all means, but give too.
Leah Betancourt of Mashable has an straightfoward five point plan for making your twitter profile […]

You know it. We know it. Twitter is mainstream communication, so Openface have added Twitter to our charity benchmark criteria to ensure a meaningful, up to date and relevant report. We want to help Charities understand how to use Twitter, help those that don’t use it (yet), and help others use it better. […]

Mark Zuckerberg bloged on 4th Feb that Facebook had reached 400 million users. Let’s put that in perspective by comparing it to country populations; US population is 308.6 million, Thailand’s population is 68 million, UK population is 61 million and Canada’s population is 34 million. Facebook is not yet India or China, but […]