Internet Psychologist
The latest articles from Internet Psychologist and Business Academic, Graham Jones
So, after all the rumours and speculation Twitter has bought Tweetdeck for a whopping $40m. Big mistake chaps. If you didn’t already know it, Tweetdeck is an application for managing social network information, in particular Twitter. On its own, Twitter is pretty much useless. The front page is of no …
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has caused a wave of controversy by saying that he wants to fight for the right of children under the age of 13 to use Facebook. At the moment it is illegal in the USA for social web companies to allow registrations of those under the …
So, now you know – it was Ryan Giggs after all…! Oh – you already knew that. Drat! I thought I was giving you some “news”. If you have been using Twitter for the last couple of weeks you can’t have avoided the name of the footballer with the super-injunction …
Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn is set to make a tidy sum when his social media site goes public later today. Estimates vary, of course, but when shares start selling today, Hoffman will become a multi-millionaire. Nice. I was speaking at a conference in London a year or so …
Web page graphics are important; they help us get a sense of the organisation of a page, they help us pay attention to specific ideas and they give us a feeling for the kind of website we are on. Even if you are not a visual thinker, graphics on a …
A German hairdresser is celebrating this morning after winning the “world’s best beard” contest in Norway – a story that is proving hugely popular online. Indeed, it is the second most shared item on the BBC News website, after the story about bomb threats to London. It is evidence taht …
The twenty-five-year-old Scot, Pete Cashmore, is an Internet superstar; six years ago, aged just 19, he started a humble blog, Mashable, which is now one of the world’s most influential and most widely read websites. This weekend he entertained an exclusive audience of 300 people at Disneyland in Florida at …
Blogging is, of course, great for business. Indeed, many successful businesses put blogging central to their online activities. There is plenty of evidence which shows that blogging is related to search engine success, social media success and – importantly – financial success. Blogging works. However, there is more to blogging …
Jemima Khan helped give Twitter its biggest day ever this week. More people logged onto to Twitter to find out about the alleged “superinjunction” than in the short history of this social website. And the person who had Tweeted about her and Jeremy Clarkson – a so-called “Billy Jones” – …
Lord Sugar is back on British TV screens tonight in the much-heralded return of “The Apprentice” – the programme which supposedly selects one of the best young business brains in the country. All across the UK tonight people will be glued to their TV sets to get their first glimpse …
Prince William saved a judge’s life last week in one of three mountain rescues he was involved in. Of course, you already knew he was back at work after his wedding. And you will have read that he and his new wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, are soon to set …
So, Cheryl Cole is to be a judge in the US version of X-Factor. Who would have guessed? Most of us probably. So how did she get the gig? Well, apart from knowing the right people – i.e. Simon Cowell – she was also a pretty obvious candidate. In the …
Everywhere you look these days there is advice on social media marketing; you can hardly move for all the media coverage of Facebook and Twitter. Indeed, you would think that is all there is to the online world if you had just landed here from another planet. Want to know …
Millions of Sony Playstation users are biting their nails this morning following further revelations that the company has been hacked and that personal user details have potentially been stolen. Meanwhile, millions more people are puzzled as to why anyone should want to break into a gaming system in the first …
As I write this the TV and online news sites are full of the death of Osama Bin Laden. With it are flash-backs to 11th September 2001 – some of which remind us of things we had forgotten. Whilst we can remember specific events like the collapse of the twin …