How to get an invite to Facebook Mail

It's rolling out over the next few months, but if you want to speed up the process, and fancy having that fly [email protected] email address before everyone else, sign up to request an invite on the Facebook Messages page. Go to the Facebook Messages page, sign in, and hit Request Invitation. See more: Facebook Mail:…

Facebook Mail: 10 Things You Need to Know

Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook Mail today. Here are ten things you need to know about it: 1) Everyone will get an @facebook email address, but slowly, at sometime over the next few months. 2) It's based on instant chat, not email. 3) Using your friends and your friend list on Facebook, Facebook will filter your…

Drop the LOLcats: 4Chan attack Tumblr for overusing their memes and being girls

Though the vigilante power nerds on 4chan are best known for exchanging manga porn, they sometimes decide to launch cyber-attacks on their enemies. At various times, their enemies have included Youtube (for taking down a lot of free music videos), the British woman filmed putting a cat in the bin (they tracked down her house)…

OK Go Collaborates With Range Rover To Create GPS Enabled Art

The US rock band OK Go, has become infamous for their creative often low-budget music videos, including their most famous, Here It Goes Again which received over 50 million views. OK Go's latest attempt to find creative ways to promote themselves, comes in the form of a collaboration with the car manufacture Range Rover, to…

GALLERY: Vintage Web Design from the Archaeology of the Web Exhibition

Visiting this exhibition was like time travel, taking you back to the internet circa 1999. Curated by Jim Boulton (interview up soon), it cherry-picked the most pioneering websites from 1990 up to the mid 00s, and displayed them on real vintage machines culled from eBay. The aim was to preserve the fast-vanishing crop of websites…

VIDEO: Headphone wars – Philips O'Neill Stretch headphones vs the Retro i-Megos

Gerald put two top-performing headphones through their paces other day. The retro-tastic i-Meegos with their steel grilles are more club-wear, while the Phillips Stretch headphones - a collaboration with Animal - are all about extreme sports and listening to music while you're bungee jumping and suchlike. Gerald doesn't bungee jump below, what he does do…