Toshiba has appointed search and social media specialist White Hat Media for a campaign to develop optimised content for its new blogging website; ToshibaLife.com.

The electronics manufacturer launched the site to build and engage with a new online audience that its main brochure-led website, uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com, doesn’t currently reach. ToshibaLife publishes blogs to help aid consumers pre and post-purchase; promoting the technology behind Toshiba products and advising on how to get the best out of them. The blogs also include the latest news and information on broader innovations and technologies.
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On Monday 15th June I was watching the evening news on TV showing a peaceful demonstration against the elections’ results in Iran. However peaceful, this demonstration flared up in panic and anger when police forces started to shoot in the crowd, killing a young man.
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Recently I’ve been looking around at the different search engines on the internet hoping and believing that there was more to search than the big three of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Having looked at the very serious Wolfram Alpha a little while ago and more recently the oddly named Duck Duck Go, I have now been alerted to Hunch.
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Duck Duck Go may have gone under the radar since its launch in September 2008 but it is in fact an internet search engine that has had some positive feedback from its users. I thought I would take a look at this new search engine, if only to give my eyes a break from the usual suspects’ home pages and logos.

Duck Duck Go bases itself around being a search engine that will provide you with the results you need whilst wiping out the clutter that can often get in the way of a regular search query. Using its own web crawler, the DuckDuckBot, and information taken partly from Wikipedia, it is hoping to make search more relevant. (more…)

After having their value underestimated by investment firms in the US, Facebook has looked to Russia for its latest investment opportunity. They have arranged a $200 million investment from Russian holding company Digital Sky Technologies.

Where the US firms saw Facebook overvalued at $10 billion the Russian firm see Facebook as a prime candidate to make use of monetization models that are popular with Russian social networking sites. Facebook only ranks as the 59th most popular site in Russia with only 200,000 users. (more…)

Twitter has decided to offer verified accounts after experiencing problems with the supposed account of well known baseball manager Tony La Russa in the United States.

Worried about users impersonating people on Twitter the service will start with public officials and famous people who are likely targets for this practice. (more…)

Some interesting new statistics regarding Twitter have emerged from The Harvard School of Business. Taking the results of 300,000 randomly selected Twitter users, it looked into how people were using the service and how it compares to social networking sites.
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Days after revealing their plans for Google Wave the people at Google have unveiled their latest internet search tool, Google Squared.

The aim of Google Squared is to provide all the answers you need for a search query that may have lots of different answers. On the Google blog using roller coasters as an example they go on to explain what it is essentially about.  (more…)

Recently we have had Wolfram Alpha offering a comprehensive “computational” knowledge engine and Google Squared promising a simple way of pulling organised data from websites into a spreadsheet style format.

Now last week we have seen Microsoft’s Live Search engine evolve into what they are now calling their decision engine. Originally code-named Kumo and supported by Microsoft’s hefty marketing muscle, Bing has been launched. (more…)

Google has unveiled its latest attempt to revolutionise the way people will use the internet for communication, Google Wave. Touted as a complete tool for how people communicate and collaborate on the web, Google see Wave as being able to bring email and instant messaging into a single modern day form. (more…)