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Scary stuff! What does your selfie say about you…

Let she who is without selfies cast the first moan! But if selfies could speak... what would they say? Classic pout "I'm a traditional gal. I don't deviate. like mild peri-peri on my Nando's, and Paul McCartney is my favourite Beatle." Extreme pout "By playing with the proportions of the conventional photographic pout, I am…

After Tumblr Yahoo turns its attention to Flickr

Yesterday was a pretty busy day for Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. Not only did she finish ensuring that the deal to buy blogging service Tumblr had gone through she then turned her attention to the phoot sharing service Flickr which Yahoo bought a while ago. Perhaps stung by criticism that Yahoo has not really moved…

New social network for students Unii launches – guaranteed 100% parent-free

Pesky parents. In the good old days students could get up to whatever they wanted to at Uni safe in the knowledge that their parents would remain unaware of their midnight spin dryer riding habits (or was that just me?), and much worse. Now though thanks to the wonders of Facebook drunken images are often…

The best corporate website you will ever see

The thing about corporate websites is that they tend to be a little bit dull, a few corporate head shots here, a yawn of a mission statement there. It is not surprising that most of us tend to switch off and head towards Buzzfeed. Except that there is one company that is desperate to turn…

Mad Men goes to the dogs – clever animated intro

In case you haven't noticed Mad Men is back on our tellies and once again it has sparked an excellent round of parodies. Now I always thought that Don Draper was a bit of a dirty dog and some clever people have taken that link to its logical extension here with a very clever Mad…

Has the day of the free tablet/iPad with a media subscription arrived?

I have always thought that one day publishers would start offering tablets for free as long as you subscribed to their packages. Well, we aren't there yet, but things are moving in that direction. The Times has announced that it is offering a special deal to potential readers and that if they sign up for…

My Social Petwork – Facebook for Felines (and Canines) on its way

So you have loads of fun on Facebook chatting away to your pals - so why shouldn't your pooch or kitty keep in touch with their friends in the same way? That's the theory behind a new UK based site that is set to launch very soon. My Social Petwork enables you to create a…

Is The Guardian turning into Buzzfeed? Pics of sleeping dogs is the future

I only ask because the website unveiled its Guardian Witness project this week. It is a section in the website where readers can share their images and videos to help supplement the stories produced by Guardian journos. So far so good. It works with the paper giving the reader assignments - so you can send…