Social Media NZ

Facebook’s heralded new Timeline redesign hasn’t exactly been welcomed by many of its 800 million users. But what will its impact be on Facebook’s popularity and is Facebook now too big to care?

  “Desperately seeking Dragon Baby!”, reads the headline on the Weekend Herald. A recent story in the Weekend explored the phenomenon of Chinese going out of their way to have a baby in the Year of Dragon, a year that is seen as auspicious and important for the Chinese.   Hospital beds, midwives and special [...]

In this final episode of The Social Life, we take a look at the top ten social media and tech stories of 2011.

This week Paul Spain is in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show 2012 (CES).

Trying to give up a bad habit? Help is at hand from a new kind of social network that gets like minded people together to form a support community.

The ownership of followers is a new legal minefield when media companies break up with their star writers. John Lai says its time for a legal precedent on just who owns a Twitter profile.

The village of Wukan in China has risen in protest and become celebrated by many netizens on the Chinese web. But fears of the protest and criticism spreading has triggered a government clampdown.

We all know what just happened in social media. But what happens next? John Lai gives us some trends to look forward to.

The Christmas episode of NZ Tech Podcast highlights the host’s favourite tech, gadgets and consumer electronics of 2011.

  Looks like Twitter will have a nice christmas fund of $300 million coming into their bank from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal’s investment firm Kingdom Holding co. Prince Alwaleed’s investment portfolio includes companies like Apple, Citigroup, General Motors, News Corp and several other media entities in the middle east to just name a few of the impressive investment [...]