No CommentThe Top News of the Week
1
Three companies have complained that Google uses unfair tactics in the war of the search engines. Google are suspected of keeping advertising prices “artificially high” and manipulating the market search engine to favour their own products, amongst other things, the search engine has come under the scrutiny of it’s main competitors. If found guilty of malpractice, Google could face a fine of up to $2.3 billion: Times
2
Wired have taken a look at Google’s influence of Music in the past and present, and make predictions for the …
Or rather, that’s the ‘Oh Sh*t, I gotta send that to my friend’ factor!
I remember a couple of years ago I was in your typical “boring” Monday morning meeting and was asked what my secret was in making a viral video as that month I had been fortunate enough to have had several successful back -to-back viral videos, so they wanted my input. The whole room looked at me and I had to think and act quickly. The first thing that came to mind was remembering my experiences in 2001 …
Twitter was definitely THE social media network phenomenon of 2009. Both celebrities and us common folk alike got slightly carried away with the fun of being able to randomly announce to our followers what we were doing, as and when we wanted. Whether as a means to occupy us whilst bored at work or on the move using phones, everyone seemed to get the Twitter bug and became addicted to the challenge of communicating in no more than 140 characters!
One of Twitter’s big attractive features was that it bridges …
The last half of the naughties saw a lot of growing trends; availability of Broadband on a large scale, online video growth went through the roof, connecting to friends/acquantances became easier and the gap between an unreachable celeb to the common folk decreased due to the likes of MySpace & Facebook. However with the good, always comes the bad – and they can trend too! One in particular has been the rise of the Internet Gangster.
Urban Dictionary describes these “hoodlums” as: “One who uses the internet as a front for …
If you have been living under a rock this Christmas or don’t live in the UK, then you must have been aware of the Xmas battle for Number 1 in the charts: X Factor’s Joe McElderry Vs Rage Against The Machine (RATM). It’s no secret that the power of Facebook made RATM victory, so here at The Worst Kept Secret we took it upon ourselves to have a bit of fun and see what TV reality music stars have the largest presence on Social Media.
We used the big 4: Facebook …
Here are our top 5 news pieces this week:
1: Here’s a list of the most watched videos on YouTube, including music specific videos. Susan Boyle is naturally out in front, with Pitbull, Miley Cyrus and Evian’s Roller Babies advert all making an appearance: Top Youtube vids
2: Last.fm has revealed that Lady Gaga is the year’s most listened to artist. Tracks from her debut album ‘The Fame’ have been played in excess of 18.5 M times by the site’s 35M-strong community: Lady Gaga & Last FM
3: Digital distributor TuneCore has …
