There is nothing social going on with the social media accounts of corporate brands. Its all one way traffic from their end and it would seem they view social media as just cheap marketing. @TopTV Twitter profile was last updated 28 days ago. For a brand that was launched very recently you would have expected there be more interaction than an update every 28 days. I didn't bother checking to see if there was a Facebook fanpage.

As I've written before, quite a while ago, I have often gone through the process of what I call a "digital detox" - deleting accounts and lowering my online footprint significantly. It's been a while since I've felt the need to perform a digital detox though...

Sometimes social media Web sites can make you relive high school all over again. And I don’t just mean it in the way that it allows you to reconnect with some of those long-lost friends and acquaintances from back then.

I’ve been using hootsuite for 6 months now as my tweeting vehicle of choice. Now for those of you that don’t know, Hootsuite 5 is website where you can keep track of and update all of your social networking activities. The best bit about hootsuite 5 is the fact you can schedule your updates to twitter and facebook and now a half a dozen other social networking sites too.

Hotmail VS Gmail

Hotmail is adding a lot of sparkly bits to their mail experience.  In the upcoming weeks beta testing will commence and we'll see a lot of changes, according to Microsoft. Operation: Wave 4. Its going to be tight squeeze to fit the launch in before Yahoo gets started with all the upgrades they promised too.

Being the winner of the BlackBerry Curve 8520, I couldn't wait to get my hands on the device. I'm a teensy bit of a phone fanatic even though I never had a smartphone before and I thought I might need to have a degree to set the phone up, but that was not the case at all. I usually try to do something without reading the manual first... Silly I know, but hey, there's a reason for my madness.