Posts Tagged ‘Europe’

The idea is to build a network of users who are willing to share their bathroom. For instance, you are visiting a major city and need to relieve yourself. You simply log on to Cloo, locate the nearest bathroom of a friend, or a friend of a friend – within the network of Cloo.

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

If you’re an online video creator in Madrid, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Rome or London get ready – you just may be the next big YouTube star in Europe. Find out more after the jump.

The usage of mobile phones has become ubiquitous in our daily lives. In developed regions every individual has a mobile phone and its penetration is drastically increasing in developing countries. Initially, the size, weight and battery life were the key metrics directing a user to buy a mobile phone. Nowadays, users’ choice is motivated by [...]

A new pact for discouraging cyber-bullying and predatory behavior on social networks has been signed by seventeen social networking sites that have a presence in Europe, including MySpace, Bebo, Dailymotion, YouTube, and Habbo Hotel, reports Reuters. The European Commission is hoping such widespread adoption of the pact will make the Internet a safer place for children. The announcement comes on the heels of MySpace revealing its successful blocking of 90,000 registered sex offenders, some of which were later found on Facebook. And Facebook appears to be missing from this new EU pact as well, though both MySpace and Facebook have their own initiatives with state and federal authorities in the United States for the protection of their users.

Some of the concessions participating networks can make as part of the pact include auto private profiles for users under the age of 18, making them not searchable on the networks or the search engines, as well as more reporting options for users that feel others are acting maliciously in some way.
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