May 22nd, 2013 by Music Ally

Pew Internet has published the results of a survey of 802 parents and their teenagers – complemented by focus groups – aiming to find out how 12-17 year-olds' use of social media is changing.

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April 24th, 2013 by Music Ally

Chirpify

Social commerce startup Chirpify has raised a new funding round of $2m from Voyager Capital. It's being described as a Series A round.

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April 24th, 2013 by Music Ally

ThingLink

ThingLink is one of the startups focused on "interactive images" online – helping people embed media, links and other content in pictures for posting and sharing on the web.

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April 5th, 2013 by Music Ally

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US band Paramore are playing a gig at London's Garage venue tonight (5 April), and some fans present won their tickets in an inventive social marketing campaign called #lyricsforlondon run by label Atlantic...

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March 19th, 2013 by Music Ally

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TechCrunch's Web 2.Oh-no headline refers to an interesting story though: the idea of micro-payments startup Flattr helping fans pay creators simply by liking their updates or music on Twitter, Instagram,...

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March 15th, 2013 by Music Ally

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There are already lots of hashtags on Facebook, either through people cross-posting updates from Twitter or Instagram.

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February 27th, 2013 by Music Ally

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There was a time when plenty of people suggested photo-sharing app Instagram would be a flash in the pan. One big-money Facebook acquisition and a couple of years later, Instagram has announced that it...

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February 6th, 2013 by Music Ally

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Late last year, Instagram launched web-based user profiles. Now it's gone the whole hog and put people's entire Instagram feeds on the web as well as in its mobile app.

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January 18th, 2013 by Music Ally

Instagram have released some stats, claiming it now has 90m monthly active users posting 40m photos a day. It's one of the few times Instagram has talked about its MAU figure as opposed to overall downloads,...

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