I’d like to welcome Ben Mawhinney to our team who joins Komodo as our new Digital Director. Joining us from The Roundhouse, where Ben spent the last 18 months as Web Director delivering projects for clients like Liverpool University, The Entrepreneur’s Forum, Port of Tyne and the Bicycle Association of Great Britain. Prior to that, [...]

I like LinkedIn and it’s just got that bit better with the introduction of a new tool that allows you to search the network for updates on specific topics. Signal, the name of the tool, searches the thousands of social media updates that network members send to their LinkedIn profile and allows you to filter [...]

Professional network LinkedIn has finally filed paperwork in preparation for it’s initial public offer (IPO) from which the company is looking to raise $175m but many believe they will achieve  a much higher figure. Social networking blog Mashable has written up a summary of the key points that the documentation reveals about the company which [...]

There is a new kid on the social media block and their name is Quora. Quora is a new take on the social networking model where participants actively seek and provide information asking and answering questions. It’s really quite clever. According to them: “Quora is a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, [...]

I picked up on an interesting discussion this morning when perusing my regular news feeds and it’s connected with the seemingly unstoppable decline of the once all powerful MySpace social network. Just in case you haven’t heard, the company has recently announced that it is axing nearly 60% of it’s workforce after being drubbed in [...]

Twitter’s new CEO finally puts forward the company’s long-term vision but I think it’s still a little, let’s say, ‘roomy’ in terms of it’s focus. Dick Costolo stated “We want to instantly connect people everywhere to what’s most important to them”. Nice one Dick but what exactly does that mean? Seems to me that there [...]

Founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003, LinkedIn is an online social network that has a decidedly professional focus. At the time of writing, LinkedIn had more than 75 million registered users, spanning more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. The network uses a “gated-access approach” which is where contact with a member [...]

Haven’t been downloading too many apps for my iPad of late but downloaded Flipboard last night and have to say I’m impressed with it. It’s essentially an app that collects content from a number of user defined sources and renders in a visually elegant way that fits the iPad screen and touch interface beautifully both [...]