Welcome back to our blog and happy New Year! As a treat, here’s what’s happening in the world of digital.
What’s happened this week:
- Twitter rolling out ‘While you were away’ feature to extend the half-life of a tweet
- Pinterest launched its Promoted Pins advertising service on New Year’s Day
- Twitter analytics are now available on the official Twitter iPhone app
What we have learned:
- Chat apps will be very important for brands in 2015 as attributed to push notifications to all followers
- Microsoft are rumoured to be discontinuing Internet Explorer in favour of the Google Chrome-like Spartan web browser
- CES 2015 is about to begin: here are the key trends to look out for
Cool stuff:
- What did we search for in 2014? Explore Google’s A Year In Search video
- Visit Mark Zuckerberg’s Book Club and join in on his resolution to read one book every fortnight in 2015
- Airbnb celebrate the new year by gifting 100,000 users with $10 each, asking them to spend it on a unique act of kindness for a stranger
Where to find more:
- A shortlist of what are likely to be Facebook’s most important products in 2015
- Misfit partners with Swarovski partners to try and make wearable technology beautiful
- Microsoft has launched the cheapest internet-ready feature phone yet, retailing at $29
