Happy Christmas Shiny Readers!

Happy Christmas Shiny readers, thanks for reading, commenting, tweeting at us and answering our poll questions about Justin Bieber in 2010. We look forward to seeing y'all back in 2011. In the meantime we'll be making snow-robots and trying to explain what apps are to our aunts till January when we'll be back with live…

Holiday viewing: YouTube's 5 British comedy hits for 2010

Bored of re-runs of The Snowman, or perhaps stuck in a snow-drift/Heathrow Terminal 5, with only you smartphone to amuse you? check out Britain's homegrown humour talent that scooped the most viewed spots for British comedy on Youtube. Watching amusing Youtube videos is pretty much the best way to kill time, ever. These videos are…

Wikileaks gets an app..

It won't get Julian Assange out of hot water... but it will donate 59p of its £1.19 price to Wikileaks and give you instant on the go access to all the Wikileaks cables yet published. It updates as they update and also hosts their Twitter stream. It's quite a nice accessible interface for the cables…

Social TV? – what it is and why it might be big in 2011…

The explosion of tweets and facebook posts about the X-factor final, and the last episodes of Strictly Come Dancing and The Apprentice prove that people really do like to talk about the TV. Despite people now spending more time on the internet than on the TV people still really like to watch it - specifically…

What the Facebook wall would look like in real life..

We told you about Catfish before - it's a great film about a Facebook romance - recently star Nev Schulmann got interviewed at a London film event via a physical representation of Facebook. All pretty confusing. Though I do like this new interview technique. We might spring it on someone who comes into the office…

Wikileaks jewellery!

So the Wikileaks cable leak has had many consequences, and one of the more surprising ones is that people have started wearing memory sticks as jewellery to support the cause. I say people, I mean one guy who blogs on Boing Boing, but still, I think he's on the money. The thing to do according…

Yes, sales of sex toys have gone up because of the recession

Well, it's cheaper than a night out isn't it? BusinessInsider reports: "a New York Times/CBS news poll found that due to the recession, people were spending more time with family and friends or pursuing hobbies. One of the more popular "hobbies" seems to be sex, as condom and sex toy companies report higher sales." In…

Farmville for Dummies! the book that finally tells you what it's all about

Are you baffled by that enigmatic Facebook-based farming game called Farmville? Darling, get yourself Farmville for Dummies and become one of the initiated. Some may say - "Farmville is really simple in the first place - you don't need a book to understand it". Others may say - "God, why would you want to spend…