Microsoft has acquired Skype, the VOIP giant with a user base of 663 million users for $8.5 billion. Read more here.

Microsoft, skype, VOIP

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 […]

I would like to point you in the direction of this article on econsultancy.com that lists their top 20 free buzz monitoring tools (still) including the likes of Technorati, Google’s alerts (a personal favourite and so easy to set up and manage), howsociable? and Icerocket.
If you haven’t already, please please set up a google alert […]

Need help planning your summer holidays?
Don’t know which of the myriad of web sites to use to choose your accomodation?
Here’s a list that’ll help find good hotel deals(with thanks to T&L):
www.cheapostay.com
www.hotels.com - look on Tuesday’s for best deals in North America
www.travelpost.com - read what others thought of your potential destination
www.kayak.com - gives you a […]

PR Week’s report on their recent survey on what’s keeping the communications directors awake at night in the 31st Oct 2008 issue, reveals that online is very much an integral part of the job. Here are some of the online highlights:
% of budget spent on digital PR or marketing?
over 50%; only 7% of respondents
11 […]

Hitwise statistics from their January newsletter reveal today that the BBC’s iPlayer has jumped a massive 1034 spots up to be the 80th most visited site in the UK.
BBC’s iPlayer website, lets browsers look at BBC TV programmes for up to seven days after they have been broadcast.
On Monday the BBC reported that the iPlayer […]

It was folklore. Revenue from online ‘would surpass’ off line. And now it is very real. Google’s advertising revenue was larger in Q3 2007 than ITV’s. People paid for more sponsored links than 30 second commericals on prime time TV.
Read times online article that broke the news here.

commericals, Google, ITV, revenue, […]

We are delighted to announce the release of the report. It is available to download on e-consultancy.com our partners in this project.
We evaluated the top 120 charity websites (by voluntary donations) in the following categories:
• Usability – is the site easy to use?
• […]

Wonder if you spotted the winners of The Weblog Awards™ announced on Monday earlier this week, March 12.
The winners are a wonderful cross section of popular, new, large, small, private and public blogs highlighting the variety and many uses of blogging.
Category nominations were made voluntarily by members of the general public […]

It’s here again! I only just wrote that the press are full of the virtues, pitfalls and necessity of joining the open communication channel of corporate blogging.
February’s edition of Management Today dedicated a lot more space to blogging, and here are highlights from Alexander Garrett’s crash course:
1. Think Strategy; why have a […]