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O2 sucks the joy out of Christmas and helps you crowdfund your presents
Christmas may be a time of giving, but O2 is betting on you deciding that it is actually the time for demanding. The company has launched a Kickstarter-style "Gift Hacker" crowdfunder. The idea is that you tell your family and friends you want one of the expensive gifts on offer, and then they can chip-in…
Twitter makes Twitter Search actually work like it should do
If you've ever searched Twitter looking for an old tweet you'll have noticed a problem - go back more than couple of weeks and search will claim the Tweet doesn't exist. The good news now is that the company has made the search box act like you might expect it to - and search through…
In the social media age, if you see someone casting the first stone, here’s something to think about before you join in.
Whilst the internet has profoundly transformed all of our lives in many ways, one of the changes we're still getting to grips with is the phenomenon of viral growth - and how in mere minutes someone can go from obscurity to the Facebook walls of millions. This means that almost every day, some lucky or…
5 takeaways from the “Facebook at Work” rumours
If this rumours this morning are correct, Facebook is planning to go after business users, with a new product called "Facebook at Work". According to the FT, the new service will "allow users to chat with colleagues, connect with professional contacts and collaborate over documents". It's a really interesting move - here's five things we…
Does Wikipedia have a European bias? And why does this matter?
Could Wikipedia be changing the way we think about the world? Check out this map from the Oxford Internet Institute. The map is really interesting: Analysts at the University have plotted 3,336,473 geo-tagged Wikipedia articles (in 44 languages) on a map, and as you can see - there are more articles inside the circle than…
Microsoft is taking Skype directly into web browsers
Microsoft has today announced Skype for Web Beta - a version of the voice and video chatting app that will work in your web browser. Announcing it on the Skype blog, the app is only available to a select few at the moment, though will be rolling out to everyone soon. The web app does…
Obama comes out in favour of net neutrality… if only he could do something about it.
Finally President Obama has spoken out over Net Neutrality. It's just a shame he can't do anything about it. Net Neutrality is one of the biggest issues of our age - the idea that without regulation, internet providers could soon charge corporations to get priority access to their users. In other words, one company could…
Amazon adds unlimited cloud photo storage for UK Prime users
Amazon has made its premium Amazon Prime offering even tastier for UK consumers - bundling in unlimited photo storage too. Backed by Amazon Cloud Drive tech, Amazon will store full resolution photos and - perhaps crucially - make photos available across devices that can run Amazon's apps - such as Amazon's own Fire TV, as…
Samaritans suspends controversial “Samaritans Radar” app
6pm on a Friday is a great time to bury bad news - which is why Samaritans has finally said announced that it is pulling its controversial Radar app "for further consideration". Here's the statement in full. Joe Ferns, Executive Director of Policy, Research & Development said: Following the broad range of feedback and advice…
Samaritans still isn’t saying much about the “Samaritans Radar” fiasco
The Samaritans Radar has been running for over a week now, and despite it upsetting a lot of people, and all of the (ahem) insightful analysis on what it all means... the organisation has been rather quiet. Samaritans has still not offered a substantive response to any of the specific complaints - such as how…
