There are a lot of applications taking advantage of Instagram's API right now, and the best part about having a publicly available stream of photos for developers to use, is...

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We promised you months ago to cover more of what Microsoft Research is up to, and we meant it. The reasearch arm of Microsoft, unlike the rest of the company,...

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London-based digital music provider 7digital is expanding its service into Asia-Pacific making its 16 million plus track catalogue available in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Singapore. The move from company,...

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The next episode of (R)evolution features a very special guest and someone whose work I've followed longer than I care to count. Among many things, John Battelle is the co-founder of Wired, Founder of Federated Media and Executive Producer of the Web 2.0 Summit. He's also the author of an upcoming book, What We Hath [...]

Read More: Our Digital Society in the Next 30 Years: An Interview with John Battelle

It's been a busy year for Spotify, what with its US launch and tight Facebook integration. And now it has announced it's integrating more tightly with the livingroom, as it...

Read More: Spotify teams up with Western Digital to bring music to the livingroom

It's been a busy year for Spotify, what with its US launch and tight Facebook integration. And now it has announced it's integrating more tightly with the livingroom, as it has teamed up with Western Digital (WD) to bring the music-streaming service to the WD TV media player. In yet another incentive to sign-up to [...]

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Whilst some countries have a penchant for banning social networks outright, back in June, France hit the headlines for introducing a different type of social media ban. Was a great...

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This is the first part in a short series to introduce The End of Business as Usual… Change is inevitable, but it is rarely easy. Among the greatest difficulties associated with change is the ability to even recognize its need at a time when we can actually do something about it. Sometimes, when we finally [...]

Read More: Digital Darwinism: Who’s Next?

Back in May, we reported that the UK government was developing a single log-in system that would work across all its websites, such as HMRC and DVLA. It is designed to encourage uptake of its public sector services online.It was reported at the time that the government was working with a number of private companies that already hold personal consumer data, such as Visa, which would potentially allow users to sign-in with their credit card details. Another option could have been Facebook, given t [...]

Read More: UK government doesn't trust Facebook with its new Digital ID system

Connectivity is at an all time high, digitally and socially. So how much is it really impacting our lives? Here's a comic book style graphic to take a look at the day in the digital life of a student.The infographic has some hilarious scenarios about staying connected to social media. I can relate to using a electronic device an hour before bed time and disturbing your sleep. I work at my computer until I go to bed, and somethings I think it keeps me awake at night. Perhaps, I should step away [...]

Read More: A Digital Day In the Life of a Student [Infographic]

People used to share news, ideas and drawings via paper in the old days. And, quite frankly, paper is still a very good tool. A number of digital pen products for writing and drawing have appeared over the years. The latest entry in this field comes from Wacom a pioneer in producing consumer and professional digitizing tablets.


Read More: Wacom Inkling Bridges Old School Pen & Paper Drawings to the Digital Vector World

internet-growth-global-itu.png nyse-globe-connection.png Let's begin with a roundup and review.In two articles, last weeks of December and January respectively, we've been pointing at the absolute and relative need to increase the Global Digital Participation. We shared the statistics that brings us the raw, measurable, physical and obvious - those being without the access to the web. The absolute level.& [...]

Read More: The Global Digital Participation 'What's Next?' - Building Community for Crowdsourcing

brazilianflag.jpg Ahh Brazil... An amazing country that is undergoing change so visceral that you can actually touch it as you walk down the main avenues of Sao Paulo.  Literally every other building is undergoing expansion, rehab or rebuild. And this is in a city of 20 million people.  It is a country that is hyper-social as a component of its cultural roots.  A nation of people more likely to hug and kiss you than nod or bo [...]

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3M's Post-it Notes have been around since 1980. Post-it PopNotes makes its appearance this week as an official digital version of the problem. And, despite a problem on the iPad (more on this later), it is a winner. Even better, it is free. And, yes, it even has a cool social aspect to it.


Read More: PopNotes: Post-it Notes Go Digital & Social

Social media is on target to be a $30bn industry (per year) by 2015. It's an industry that every smart brand is engaging with and therefore pouring its resources into. Today, Buddy Media, an incredibly successful SaaS platform for brand’s Facebook Pages, announced its latest research, which examined the digital footprint of 64 speciality retail brands via 350 data points across four dimensions: Site, Digital Marketing, Social Media, and Mobile.For the study, Buddy Media partnered with NYU Stern [...]

Read More: 11 brands with the highest "Digital IQ" in social media

Ebooks raked in $313 million in 2009, growing by 176.6% compared to 2008. The sale of ebooks are currently growing at a rate of 217.3% in comparison to 2009. For more interesting facts on traditional books and ebooks, check out the infographic below. ++ Click to Enlarge Image ++ Image Source:MastersinEducation.org Embed this infographic on [...]

Read More: How Do Digital Readers Stack Up Against Traditional Books [Infographic]

Nearby Digital is happy to announce Esoteria Espresso Bar, a very cosy coffee shop on Hackney Road as the third winner of its ‘Most Liked Business in Shoreditch’ competition! Although it has been a long, tiring month, it was also hugely rewarding as we met so many wonderful and inspirational people along the way, and [...]

Read More: Nearby Digital Announces Third Winner of ‘Most Liked Business In' Competition

Nearby Digital is happy to announce The Happy Sailor, a pirate-themed tattoo parlour as the second winner of its ‘Most Liked Business in Shoreditch’ competition! Well done, Happy Sailor! Although it has been a long, tiring month, it was also hugely rewarding as we met so many wonderful and inspirational people along the way, and [...]

Read More: Nearby Digital Announces Second Winner of ‘Most Liked Business In' Competition

Netflix is huge, but we had no idea just how huge it was until we saw this new infographic from GigaOM.  Netflix By The Numbers illustrates just how big Netflix has become, in terms of business, bandwidth, devices and catalog.


Read More: Netflix Owns 61% Of US Digital Movie Market Share [Infographic]

Last fall, before I joined the Spin Sucks Pro team, Gini Dietrich asked me to contribute a letter to Dear CEO, an ebook compiling advice from more than 30 PR and Marketing experts to CEOs in the new era of communication. Following is my letter. You can purchase the eBook here for $40. Dear CEO, You may [...]

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