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The thing I find interesting about the digital world, is how something that isn’t technically ‘real’, or ‘alive’, can have such a huge impact on the stuff that is, the ‘real world’ itself. If you think about it, pretty much everything in our modern environment has a link to something digital or internet based, and with over 2 billion users worldwide, the internet itself must be the most powerful influence on earth today. Take a piece of fruit for example. It’s obviously not related to the internet or digital world at all, right? But what happens when a story goes out on the news (which is also digital), talking about a new found contamination of all the worlds apples or…

It might well be that once these domains are obtained in the future that Google and other search engines will find a .City domain address is a more accurate way to find results that are relevant to queries with a specific City name in it.

It’s comparatively rare that social signals and content provide ‘answers’ to the questions which are represented by people’s keyphrase searches beyond simply validating or reinforcing editorial content; social content is very different to editorial content.

They say working in an office isn’t for everybody and I thought I was one of those people but twentysix isn’t like any office I’ve been to before. Let me introduce myself, I’m Holly and I’m in my first year of a Media and Marketing degree at Leeds Trinity University. I’m with twentysix on a six week placement which is part of my course and after nearly completing my first year of university I thought I’d learnt a lot about marketing. Then after my first day at twentysix I realised how little I knew and how much there is to learn. As a student I’ve heard the horror stories about what it’s like on placement, making cups of coffee for…

There are various directories of hashtags like TagDef, or Hashtags.org and you can also claim a hashtag (and add video and other media) at Twubs. Hashtags in combination with published times create twitterchats, or twitter parties.