For those of you who missed it, a few weeks ago Mark Thompson, Director General of the BBC announced reboot, a competition giving users the chance to redesign the BBC homepage. So far submissions include everything from the iPod influenced… Continue Reading
News International has a number of online community roles up for grabs including Community Editor (#2 in their departmental chart ) and a more general call for CVs. And no, I have no idea if you’ll be working on Page3.com,… Continue Reading
What do crime statistics, caravans, the Divinci Code, hotdog stands, and veggie restaraunts all have in common? Yep, they’ve all been plotted, usefully and otherwise, on google maps. GoogleMapsMania is a great place to look if you’re just discovering the… Continue Reading
I’ve just realised that my current mobile phone contract is up for renewal. I admit it – over the years, I’ve been a bit of network tart. I’ve been on Orange, O2 (BT Cellnet when I signed up), Vodafone, One2One… Continue Reading
Youtube has added a new feature that gives users the ability to send video from their mobile phone directly to the site. It works in the same way as flickr‘s mobile to web functionality for cameraphone images: users create a… Continue Reading
According to Nielsen/NetRatings, social networking sites attracted 45% of active internet users in America in April. (see article in TechWeb) MySpace: 38.4 million unique users Blogger: 18.5 million unique users Classmates: 12.9 million unique users YouTube: 12.5 million unique users… Continue Reading
No Tesco, Starbucks or Walmart in your town? Add your own with SketchUp and Google Earth… Google recently released SketchUp a 3D modeling program that allows users to create virtual mock-ups of everything from a garden deck (dad!) to a… Continue Reading
Getting your boss to spend $395 to send you to the two day Sex in Videogames (08-09 June in San Francisco) might be a bit of a challenge, but imagine the fun you’ll have if you do get to go!… Continue Reading
According to BBC News Online, Radio1 has “staked a claim to a virtual tropical island where it can stage online music festivals and throw exclusive celebrity parties. The rented island exists in online game Second Life and will hold its… Continue Reading
Americans often laugh at what they see as the over-regulation of, well, just about everything in Europe. Now we can laugh, and cringe a bit, at a new law proposed by Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick, in China a Pennsylvania Republican, author… Continue Reading