Facebook Sponsored Stories Expected for 2012  As of January 2012, Facebook will be rolling out advertising to appear in a user’s timeline, called ‘sponsored stories’. These stories, no longer limited to the ticker bar or ad space, will appear in the form of updates, and will be related to your particular user information, such as [...]

Google Analytics is a great free service for measuring traffic on your site. It can help you track data like how many users are visiting your blog and how often, which of your posts are the most popular, which search terms visitors are finding you through, and where in the world your visitors are coming [...]

Instagram is one of the most popular photo sharing apps for the iPhone. It’s a simple photo-taking and photo-sharing app that you can get free from Apple’s App Store, and it’s commonly used amongst bloggers and creatively minded tweeters. Instagram supplies 11 retro-looking filters for use with your iPhone camera. You can either take photographs normally and [...]

Typically, a Tumblr blog will be in a continuous page format, consisting of chronological blog posts, with a simplistic, design conscious layout. Tumblr tends to be quite image heavy, but if you’re blogging as part of your business, you may also want to add some information about your company or a professional profile, and the obligatory contact details. As of [...]

Updates to the Twitter Homepage With so many of Twitter’s users accessing the site through third party apps, mobile phone apps, or Tweetdeck, Twitter now seems to have upped its game, to reveal a redesigned homepage, for better browsing and interactions. The homepage is now a tab named ‘Home’ with additional tabs ‘Connect’ for @ replies [...]