So Google’s purchase of Jaiku has happened and I am delighted. It is a bit of the VHS versus Betamax battle – but where the better format wins! Jaiku is a much more accomplished, micro-blogging tool. It offers post comments/threads, groups, post/comment rss feed, external feed importing, embedable post icons, groups and fantastic mobile functionality [...]
Author Archives: Paul Fabretti
Jaiku versus Twitter – the revenge
Bin those unfriendly Facebook friends
We all have Facebook friends we like and Facebook friends we befriend because we were young and naïve and thought it was cool to connect with these people. But what happens when these people keep posting rubbish and, actually, we realise there was a reason we lost touch with them years ago… Facebook has always [...]
Why you need a Facebook Page for your company
On November 6th, Facebook dropped more great news for advertisers keen to find ways to monetise the fastest growing social network in the world. They are: Facebook Social Ads Facebook Beacon Facebook Platform Facebook Pages Facebook Insights Facebook Polls I will be covering some of these in more detail shortly, but one of the most [...]
The Facebook Debate – some thoughts
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Facebook Debate and had a great time for several reasons which I wasn’t expecting. There’s not much I can add to the many reviews of the debate itself, so, in a fit of madness sanity, I am [...]
The Facebook Debate…and other events
I am over the moon that I have been able to bag a place at The Facebook Debate on the 17th October. Big thanks to Paul Walsh of the BIMA and Segala for that. The aim of the debate is to: explore and challenge the various ideas currently being touted in blogs and mainstream media, [...]


