Drew B's take on tech PR

Stephen Davies moves on

After graduating last year, a brief internship with us at LEWIS, then some time at Edelman, and most recently a while in Frank PR, Stephen Davies the PRblogger.com is moving again, this time to join webitpr. He's leaving London, and tells us a bit more about his decision in this post on his blog. Good luck with the move Stephen. Hope to see you again.

Facebook to open London office

New Media Age has the scoop that the almighty Facebook and its UK rule is taking an official seat in these isles.

Social network Facebook will open its first UK office in August and is in the process of setting up commercial deals with up to 15 British-based brands. The news comes as it rolls out its first UK brand tie-up, as it looks to further compete with market leaders MySpace and Bebo. The US-based network currently holds third position in the UK, with a 12% share of the social networking market.

Thanks SD for the tip off

links for 2007-06-02

• NewTeeVee » Mike Volpi's Post-Cisco Gig: Joost CEO
  Former Cisco high flying exec joins Joost
• Businesses using Social Networking to do business - Pocket-lint.co.uk
  65% use sites to make professional connections
• Is my Facebook bovvered - Mycustomer.com
  Could social networking help your business? - 31 May 2007
• Google Buys Feed Distributor FeedBurner - Forbes.com
  Google Inc. said Friday it purchased FeedBurner, which helps bloggers and podcasters syndicate and make money from their online content, for an undisclosed sum.
• Now win a notebook too in our Blogger at Large contest >> Care in the Community >> Karen Friar's Blog at ZDNet UK Community
  ZDNET give a laptop away in blogger at large contest
• Microsoft continuing updating Windows Live Services
  The latest beta is available through a blog post on the website and enables the user to publish blog posts to several blogging platforms including WordPress and TypePad.
• PR Week's The Cycle » Blog Archive » Google hires
  Many people have speculated that Google is looking for 70 PR people. We asked David Krane, director of corporate communications, and he says those numbers are off.
• PSFK Conference London -- gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards"
  "The PSFK Conference in London. The best advertising conference I've ever been to..."

Tories and Labour appoint new spin doctors

PR Week online hasn't picked up on the news and so have all the papers: both The Tories and Labour appointed their new PR chiefs yesterday. Here's a review of who says what about it in today's press.