A couple of notable stats have been revealed about Twitter in the last few days, including updates on usage and capability. First off, Twitter search is now three times faster than before. The engineers over at Twitter have released a report yesterday which reveals their front-end switch from Ruby-on-Rails to Java server by the name of Blender. The more...
A number of Holt Renfrew customers took to Twitter this weekend to express their disdain about the store’s decision to fire doorman Tom Hargitai. For those of you who don’t know, Holt Renfrew is Canada’s leading luxury fashion retailer, the equivalent of a Neiman Marcus or Barneys New York in the United States. Their Bloor street more...
A tragic situation, described as a “tug-of-war” by the Globe and Mail, has resulted in a heated social media uprising. An infant known as Baby Joseph in Ontario’s London Health Sciences Centre was diagnosed with a fatal progressive neurodegenerative disease, leading his doctors to recommend that his feeding and breathing tubes be removed. His more...
Today Apple held a media event where the one and only Steve Jobs announced the launch of the iPad 2. The redesigned faster, thinner, lighter iPad 2 will be available in the United States on March 11th and available in 26 other countries, including Canada, on March 25th. It has been called revolutionary, the better way to experience the web, email, more...
Asana – The software being developed by Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein, fellow Facebookers – has been introduced to the internet world. It is not currently available to anyone, and is still in “private-beta” with a choice few (with a waiting list of over 1200). The demo and information on the product within the video below shows it will more...
This week is Social Media Week in several cities around the world and luckily there’s some events hosted right here in Toronto. One such event that we’ve had the pleasure of attending was the “Cultural Curators – Creating and Controlling Hype in the Digital Age” talk presented by Daniel Berkal. The talk was held in an more...
Yesterday we announced that we are the official social media sponsor of the HRPA and will be attending their annual trade show. The event is starting tomorrow and will be running for three days until Friday. Each day a number of speakers will be discussing different subjects relating to human resources. A couple of us here at Agile will attend these more...
The State of the Union is an annual address by the President of the United States to the country’s citizens, it outlines the current state of the nation as well as future goals and priorities. It was originally delivered in written format, until President Woodrow Wilson delivered the address in speech form before the joint congress. Since then, successive more...
I am a fan of several Pages on Facebook because I am curious to see how popular brands engage their fans on the social network and the response they receive. But the Page which receives the most engagement on my Facebook is not actually a brand. It’s a Page for the popular English sitcom “The Inbetweeners”. In case you haven’t more...
I often mention my favorite fashion bloggers in my posts because I think they do such an exemplary job of using social media to share their work. Many of them have gained popularity from their efforts, The Sartorialist’s Scott Schuman has a monthly page in GQ and continuously contributes content to style.com. Canada’s own Tommy Ton more...
