Last week the internet got VERY excited about Beyonce's long-awaited foray into social media, but why has Tumblr played such a central role? The internet freaked out last week when the awesome and usually super private Beyonce published her first ever tweet and launched a shiny new Tumblr. Even those who aren't obsessed with her…

Google has started rolling out a number of new features to its social network today, including more ways to customise the content you see from your contacts and a different Hangouts interface. Despite the fact a huge number of us have signed up to Google+ and still aren't using it anywhere near as much as…

Today Spotify has launched its new Play Button, which allows users to listen to content all over the web and embed tracks and playlists easier to blogs and social networks. The new Spotify Play Button is a music widget that will allow users to share and discover music even more easily across blogging platforms, websites…

A popular psychologist has teamed up with developers to create an iPhone app called Dream:ON, which he plans to use in a widespread experiment in order to find out if we can really manipulate our dreams. Richard Wiseman is a well-known author/magician/psychologist/author hybrid with a huge Twitter following, fascinating mind and reputation for debunking myths…

Although we don't really understand why people are getting quite SO angry about Facebook's acquisition of Instagram, we do get that a few of you will be shopping around for alternatives this morning. So here's our selection, depending on what it is you loved so much about the popular app before it was gobbled up…

The internet imploded yesterday when news broke that Facebook has bought popular retro photo sharing and editing app Instagram. But does anyone REALLY care or are you all just jumping on the "THIS IS TERRIBLE. I AM OUTRAGED" bandwagon? Last night news broke that Facebook bought Instagram for a reported $1 billion in cash and…

How about this for an Easter Monday bombshell. Facebook is to buy the popular photo-sharing smartphone app Instagram for $1 billion in cash and shares (£629 million). Launched in October 2010, Instagram has apparently 30 million users, uploading more than 5 million new pictures each day. The app is free and allows users to apply…

The Pictionary / Words With Friends hybrid Draw Something has exploded over the past few months with sources predicting it will now have amassed more than 50 million (yes, million) downloads in a matter of weeks. But are we all still as excited to use our chubby little fingers to scribble rubbish pictures of Bieber,…