Facebook goes public Big news in the technology and business worlds, Facebook will be launched on the stock market in the very near future with initial estimates suggesting a total value of $100 billion. On the plus side, shareholders could have a positive influence as they may bring new ideas from outside the confines of [...]

Facebook rolls out Timeline to all users and enables brands to communicate privately with fans while Twitter redesigns its interface and consolidates features.

This week we look at the introduction of Google+ brand pages and their possible impact on social search, and we ask whether social networks should be shut during times of civil unrest.

This week’s bytes is a virtual smorgasbord of tech news. It explores the new Google Analytics, the results of a survey into clicktivism, some Twitter heat mapping, news of how Twitter sign ups have changed since the iOS 5 integration, Android news and how the length of your posts affects peoples engagement with them. We round it all off with a suggestion that you see the wonderful Junkhearts, written by our own Simon Frank.

We get the first figures on Facebook post data after the new changes and look around the new Insights measurements. We announce that Facebook is going green and highlight a frickin’ good idea from UNICEF.

This week, Google have released Real-Time, an immediate analytics tool that shows you how many people are engaging with your content at any one time. Facebook push us to make better Pages and ReTargeter follows your followers.

This week we focus on three of our favourite talking points: Google+, Twitter and Facebook and think about how their changes will affect what we do with them in the charity sector. We also get excited about tonight’s NFPtweetup!

Highlights from the live question and answer panel for Guardian voluntary sector network. Topics included internal challenges with social media, asking for celebrity tweets, getting started with social media and integrating social media into other areas of work.

This week we look at the new product launches at Facebook. We also find out the value of social share buttons, and how we can now track them. Lastly, we find a new crowdsourcing donation site, Soloco.

Twitter is set to launch UK advertising in October. We explain the effects of posting to Facebook from a third-party app and two of our favourite websites reach a 100 million landmark.

This week Google+1 goes mobile, we discover a new Twitter with a twist and we check up on checking in.

Google has been making more waves in tech news this week. Some of it good, some not great but all of it interesting.

Google+ is integrated into Google search results in a (not so) shocking move. Kuapay pip NFC to the post with a QR code mobile payment system and Facebook Ads allow you to target people by postcode.

DudaMobile DudaMobile has recently launched a new self-serve platform that allows existing website owners create a mobile version of their site by simply typing in the website’s URL. This is a simple and brilliant offering for small organisations, who haven’t got the time or resources to make sure their site is mobile friendly. The service [...]

What a shocking night London has just experienced.  In thirty years of living here I have never witnessed such carnage.  For most people it’s an utterly mystifying experience – why are they doing it?  Why now? According to Ken Livingstone, we’re witnessing the despair and anger of a dispossessed generation – young people who face [...]

This week Twitter rolls out promoted tweets with an interesting propostition for charities, and not content with this good CSR karma, it also plays a role in the debt ceiling deal in America. Groupon check into location services and Google+ brings out live video streaming.

This week is dominated by Twitter news and news on Twitter. We also touch upon how Facebook is making it easier for small pages to get recognition and how Apple is making it easier for your face to get recognition. Lastly, we wanted to highlight a really great use of Google maps for a charity website.

We take a look at two new start ups, witness round two of Google and Facebook’s tussle for control of the web and round up how this half a year has impacted some of the biggest sites.

Twitters iOS integration, Google acquired Postrank, WaterAid holds 24 hour tweetathon and T-minus one week until Teri walks 100km!