The hard to pronounce location-based application Gowalla, Foursquare's slicker but less popular little cousin, has closed its doors over the weekend after five pretty good years of show-offy check-ins and social travel guides. Three months after Facebook's talent acquisition of Gowalla, the site has officially shut down leaving us with a heartfelt goodbye and a…

As we're all so obsessed with Pinterest at the moment, we thought we'd take a look at a new social commerce website called Fancy, which many have suggested is a high-end alternative to the popular pin-board community. Fancy describes itself as: "Part store, blog, magazine and wishlist. It's a place to discover great stuff, to…

In the next few months one of our favourite photo sharing sites, Flickr, will be getting a fancy makeover, with a streamlined photo feed design and a new uploading tool too, according to Mashable. The simpler photo stream design, called Justified View, will look a lot more grid-like, and has many drawing comparisons to the…

When we first signed up to Pinterest last year it was all about individuals collecting photos of styles they'd love to copy or places they'd love to visit, but (as you're all probably well aware) in the past few months it's exploded and we're seeing the site being used in all kinds of ways by…

Caterina Fake is one interesting online entrepreneur, she co-founded photo management website Flickr and online taste graph Hunch and she's involved in a whole range of other exciting sites, projects and ventures. Her latest startup is called Pinwheel and although it's only just launched in private beta this week, we're pretty excited about what it…

Most of us have probably come across 'typosquatting' sites a few times in the past, you hurriedly type in a URL, make a typo and find another site sat there, usually full of ads, porn and other bits and pieces of rubbish. Well now it seems that these kinds of websites will be forced offline…

Pop Hive: Episode 2 from Pop Hive on Vimeo. If you're struggling to find an entertainment website that really speaks to you, i.e. one that isn't full of TOWIE cellulite shots, cringeworthy reviews of chick flicks or juice diet tips, then you might want to take a big dose of the Pop Hive, a new…

We've heard a few people talking (or should we say seen them tweeting) about music sharing and discovery service This Is My Jam for a while now, but today the site has been opened up to all and allows users to find cool new music just one song at a time. You begin by choosing…

Last year Dulux and UNICEF teamed up to launch the Own a Colour initiative, which enabled anyone to choose a colour from a selection of 16.7 million, claim it and rename it anything they like in return for a £1 donation to the charity. So far the scheme has raised more than £100,000 in donations…

If you spend far too much of your time online like the other 98% of us, then you'll have become used to the creepy ads that seem to follow you from website to website suggesting the same ugly pair of shoes you accidentally clicked on earlier in the day. The practice of showing you that…