What exactly is/isn’t acceptable fodder for announcing via social media? A pregnancy – complete with scans on Facebook? A compressed critique of landlord failings via Twitter? A video diary of your kidney stone op via YouTube? Your viewpoint, like most...

According to the BBC, a tenant who used Twitter to complain about mould in her Chicago apartment is being sued by the lettings agency. Is it really libellous though? As someone quite rightly points out, should a humble tweet be deemed as a form of publishing...

Last night global web traffic rose a third above normal – peaking during the moving memorial service to Michael Jackson. However, it was nowhere near the unprecedented surge following the announcement of his passing. It was then that people clamoured...

It’s the eternal dream – turning everyday Tweets into pounds and pence. Well, Kogi, a little known barbeque company in the States may have the answer. Basically they’ve got BBQ juggernauts chugging around selling fancy tacos to hungry pedestrians. The...

Facebook 2.0? Not quite, but today’s the day that it looks set to open up access to the ‘feed’. What we’re talking about is the rich real time data that developers would give their eye-teeth to get their hands on; the stuff we’re all sharing with our...

Did you read Chris Barraclough’s recent blog? He handed over the temporary reigns to Casey Bird – a young student of advertising. Casey’s big gripe was that Facebook is being taken over by seriously uncool oldies… like her dad. Well, guess what, it’s...