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LinkedIn – A Recruitment Revolution?

I got the following mail from LinkedIn earlier today: It’s short and to the point: lots of my network made a professional move in 2011, and many of them chose to share the news on LinkedIn. While the message obviously has personal interest – I connect with people on LinkedIn because I want to know […]

Google’s ‘Ask A Friend’ Goes Live

There’s been plenty of coverage about the integration of Google+ into search over the past few days, but this particular iteration really caught our attention: As you can see in the screen shot, the ‘ask a friend’ option sits at the bottom of the first page of Google’s search query results, just before the links […]

Five Friday Facts #11

Here’s our Five Friday Facts before we head off to start pigging out on CNY goodies over the long weekend. Wishing everyone a Happy and Prosperous Chinese New Year! mig33 launches ‘miniblog’ Singapore-based mobile social network mig33, which has over 55 million users, has launched a new ‘miniblog’ service currently in beta. Its limited release from […]

Chinese Social Media Trends 2012

How will the world’s largest population take the world of social in 2012? Mailman has published its expectations of how the Chinese population will embrace mobile and social media platforms in 5 big ways. One that really stands out for us is the potential of social gaming. They cite that fact that the world’s (arguably) most famous […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #11

Brands that Chinese youths follow on Sina Weibo The most popular brand on popular Chinese microblogging platform Sina Weibo is Durex Condoms, which has 294,174 followers on its Sina Weibo account and is followed by 2.95% of youths on the social network. Other top brands include Starbucks, Adidas Originals, Converse and H&M. Social branding agency […]

Email marketing goes social

We don’t see email going down the path of the dinosaurs any time soon. As did print and TV, email is evolving with its social environment, in adopting social functionalities in the form of embedded social sharing options. One of our predictions for 2012 will be the prevalence of social sharing, and like what this infographic […]

Five Friday Facts #10

Here’s our Five Friday Facts for the week! Singaporeans’ online and mobile safety habits Mobile is going to take off even further this 2012, but its upsurge is accompanied by mobile safety concerns. Even though nearly 70% of Singaporeans think using a mobile device for online transactions is faster and more convenient, 61% are worried […]

Top Tech Trends of 2011

Following yesterday’s look at the Top Twitter Trends of 2011, we thought we’d share this infographic from G+ that shows just how important social media have become in the overall digital landscape: Thanks to State of Search for bringing this one to our attention

Twitter Trends from 2011

We’ve seen some fascinating studies on Twitter Trends from 2011 over the past few days, but here’s another great pair from Hootsuite’s What The Trend team: News and Entertainment: Brands and Hashtags: Thanks to the lovely people at TheNextWeb for bringing these infographics to our attention to our attention

We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #10

New Foursquare city badge for Tokyo Foursquare has launched the Sakura badge for Tokyo users, which can be won by ‘checking-in’ at 5 of the 64 locations listed for this badge, including popular locations in the city such as Shibuya, Harajuku, and Shinjuku. Outside of Asia, Berlin also has a new Foursquare city badge. The […]

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