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PinU Is Another Attempt At A Location-Based App For Friends – Will It Work This Time?

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First, the bad news; many have tried to make location based networking happen (or Happn, perhaps we should say), but few have succeeded – although the likes of Facebook, Snapchat and WhatsApp haven’t even managed to crack it, perhaps it’s these sites’ omnipresence on people’s smartphones that has made location based networking so hard to …

Dugout – The Football Platform For Fans – Capitalises On Social Media Trends To Launch Its First Ever App

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The world belongs to millennials more and more each day, and that is fantastic news for social media sites and online advertisers, because millennials love to consume media and they are big online spenders. But there’s even better news for online media companies such as Dugout – “the world’s first digital platform supported by the …

Bored of Freelancing All On Your Own? Maybe It’s Time To Checkout NewWorkMates.com?

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Caught yourself staring aimlessly out of the window recently, wishing you had a colleague to discuss last night’s telly with, whilst hoping the telephone rings with some news of a new project to get stuck into? Such is the world of the freelancer – so much to do, so little time in which to do …

It Was All Yellow? Fuller’s Launches Mysterious Instagram Campaign In East London To Get Quizzical Hipsters Talking About New Craft Ale

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Have you seen them yet? Big, bold and bright yellow, these posters are becoming an increasingly familiar sight around the hipster neighbourhoods of East London. It’s an area that is home to more than its fair share of postmodern, meta, and just plain outrageous artwork – a lot of it on the arms and torsos …

Despark’s Ignyte Networking Series is Back! Startup Superstar Vincent Dignan Will Be Talking Growth Hacking Techniques At The Hub, Golden Square Next Wed

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Is there anybody who doesn’t enjoy Wednesday night networking in Soho? Serial networkers experiencing that dreaded sense of déjà vu as they chat to the same people, in the same places, whilst swigging beer and eating pizza (admit it – it could be worse, couldn’t it?) are in for a treat, as Despark’s ever popular …

YAC-ity YAC – Will You Talk Back? New Networking App For Socially Elite Coming To London Scores How Popular You Are, And Tells People

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Ever wanted to find the most popular (or least popular) person in the club; thanks to YAC, you’ll soon be able to, says its founders It’s not the first time the idea of a popularity / power based app has been floated (Klout, anyone?), but this time, says Ales Zivkovic founder of social networking and …

Facebook Says You Don’t Need A Mobile Phone Number Anymore

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So that’s what Messenger is for – ever since Facebook decided access to their messaging app would be through a separate app to their main site, speculation has been rife as to what Zuckerberg, Sandberg and the crew at Menlo Park were up to. Well it seems that since they couldn’t get a successful Facebook …

Get To Know The Founders Of Knomi As They Introduce Shopping Through Social Interaction…

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Haggerston Times Fashion Writer Abi Buller talks to one of the co-founders of Knomi, Hans-Christian Zappel, about their recently launched e-commerce and social networking application. Knomi is a social fashion discovery app which allows users to curate profiles based on their own style choices, as well as sharing and interacting with others about the latest …

VIBBIDI Taps Into Social Media Craze For Video & Migration To Mobile With Beautifully Crafted Editing & Sharing App

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“We believe that within humanity lies the fundamental desire to beautifully set aside and preserve life’s precious moments”, says the about section on the website for a new app, VIBBIDI, due to be officially released to the public at the end of this month. The app has been created by Kazuhiro Naya, an entrepreneur who …

Silicon round-up: It’s just a ride! The old social media double whammy

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Recently there has been a lot of discussion in Tech and investment circles over the use of personal data. The more sinister side of the big data debate revolves around the reasons why entrepreneurs and developers are building so many charming, sexy and colourful new lifestyle apps. Is it because these mini-algorithms help us to …

We’re All Marketers Now: The Growing Power Of Social Media And Search Marketing

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Matt Wheeler of Driftrock Digital marketing is a science. We should all have realised by now that in the world of online, nothing happens by chance. Every GIF, Vine, video or comment that we see is most likely the result of somebody somewhere’s social media marketing strategy. …