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There have been a flurry of media invites to a ‘news’ event at Facebook tomorrow to discuss products and services. Industry insiders are expecting the launch of the networking site’s much-anticipated location-based products. It’s just speculation at the moment but the blogosphere is buzzing about the prospect of Facebook joining trailblazers Foursquare et al.
The nominations were one of the biggest topics last week. Josie, Dave and John James were eventually banned from nominating newbie Sam Pepper after breaking the rules by discussing putting him up.
Figure 1: Sentiment analysis expressed towards all housemates – 4/8 to 10/8
Looking at the sentiment analysis for the all of the housemates, those with [...]
Ben was evicted. Sam became a housemate. Jedward played a live set in the garden. Davina McCall presented part of her live show from the house. An average Friday night in Big Brother land. Oh, and on Thursday, Laura became the third girl to walk out of the back door.
The Jedward and Davina stunt was [...]
US-based Metro Bank has just opened its first branch in Holborn, London. The High Street debut is the UK’s first new bank for a century. It plans to open 200 branches or ‘stores’ in the Greater London area within 10 years.
Virgin Money, Tesco Bank and a new concept – dubbed Project New Bank – are [...]
There was no eviction last Friday, so to keep the Big Brother audience happy, three new housemates joined the house – Jo, Laura and JJ. This was after Andrew and Corin mumbled / sang / mimed / ‘(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life’ from Dirty Dancing to the live audience standing outside the house.
The [...]
We have a bird’s eye view from the Sentiment Metrics office of the Farnborough Airshow – literally. All is quiet and then the Airbus A380 flies past the window, Eurofighters, the Red Arrows. We’ve seen some pretty impressive arial acrobatics in the past few days.
It’s planespotter heaven and fun for us. But, there is a [...]
Leading figures from the top echelons of social media have backed up rumours that Google has been building a head on, social networking challenge to Facebook. Digg founder Kevin Rose has already confirmed speculation the search behemoth was working on ‘Google Me’, touted by some as ‘the Facebook killer’.
Facebook chief technical officer, Adam D’Angelo, also [...]
So, Nathan was evicted on Friday and three new housemates arrived in a spaceship in the garden. It could only be Big Brother. Jonathan, Keeley & Rachel joined the Borehamwood nine late Friday night. The house was taken over by Big Brobot for a futuristic shopping task and the week ended with the arrival of [...]
