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Daily Express: HOUSE PRICES STILL SOARING HOUSE prices are continuing to soar in defiance of interest rate rises, official figures revealed yesterday. The average home in England and Wales went up by more than £1,200 every month in the past year despite Bank ...

BrandRepublic's reporting (free subs reqd) that low cost airline, EasyJet, has partnered with MySpace UK form a branded community and to tap "into the social network's 8.7m user base to create an online resource for travellers." The platform will allow ...

Using social networks for PR purposes is the big thing these days. Statistics show that people are using traditional media less so than ever before because of new technology choices. I won't go into the whole spiel as it's been ...

Customer service is terrible in the UK. It really is. How many times have you been got off the phone from a call centre and want to pull your hair out? I've been lied to; I've had the phone put ...

On Thursday, Facebook announced their new platform which allows Facebook users (Facebookers?) to add third party applications (widgets) into their profiles. Anything from music, video, audio, games and even Word documents if they so wish. (See Drew's post about the ...

I've been reading quite a lot of discussion relating to the rankings Google* gives to Wikipedia entries of late. In general, if you search for a brand using Google, chances are its Wikipedia entry will be there on the first ...

No, I'm talking about that, silly! I'm talking about how much attention can you give to all the contacts/friends you acquire using social networks, IMs, blogging etc. Are they all sustainable? I don't think they are. There must come a ...

My friend, Ben Ayers, from ITV informs me he's started a new PR blog, called New Media Curious. Ben says, rather jokingly, in his opening post: "Never let it be said that I don't have a finger firmly on the ...