AOL-owned social networking site Bebo is to suffer as its parents cuts jobs and most strikingly it is freezes production of its groundbreaking web TV drama's, which were once going to be the future. MediaGuardian reports that the social networking site will cut the team behind 'KateModern'...
Following on from Friday's post on Labour's Twitter lead , research says that Gordon Brown has a lot of ground to make up with Britain's 30m online social network users as he looks to make his keynote speech at the Labour Party conference this week. Of course, his social media reputation...
Poor old ITV. It dived into the world of social media just as the tide was turning. Now, according to the Mail on Sunday, it could be selling Friends Reunited for a paltry £15 million; that’s £160million less than it paid for it 4 years ago! FR was rather a one trick pony though, wasn’t it? Once you...
Today's the big day for Digital Britain. The consultations have produced a very long wish list. I expect Ben Bradshaw will read out his in Parliament this afternoon. In a ‘simultaneous broadcast’ (how quaint) Lord Carter will be presenting the outcomes of his investigations into the state of Britain...
‘Hi! I’m TopKat and I just came third in the county’s under-14 cross-country.’ Looks innocuous enough, doesn’t it? Couldn’t possibly be dangerous for the child that posted it, could it? The sad truth, though, is that there is probably enough information in this one sentence for the wrong kind of person...
Fresh from the G20, so might be a bit of overclaim. Yet the ‘dodge-it-all’ bandwagon carries on apace, with #digitalbritain trending top on Twitter on Friday. Gordon gets digital, it says on the live feed twitter fail, lampooned so cruelly in the Telegraph . But the politicians aren’t saying very much...
Facebook is waking up to the Twitter threat. Yes it’s a threat and the two are going to clash. Having proved it is no flash in the pan, Twitter is going to eat into the social networking site's traffic and Facebook is doing something about it. Reports on a presentation that took place yesterday are...
As ITV considers unloading Friends Reunited for a knockdown price the future looks uncertain to bleak for the one time darling of the UK internet scene, which has long been superseded by more nimble rivals. One of a number of things is going to happen to Friends Reunited: it will either shrivel into...
The BNP membership list story is all over the national press today, but online there is another spin to the story as one blogger has taken the list and made a Google Maps mashup of the data. The list was published after it was leaked on various websites and can now found on several including Bittorrent...
