Month: June 2012
Facebook launches Explore London 2012 page for the Olympics
The summer of sport is well and truly upon us and to give fans access to the latest news about their favourite athletes and sports, Facebook has launched the Explore London 2012 page, kinda like a big hub full of Olympics goodness. The Explore London 2012 page contains all of the other pages relating to…
POLL: Are you watching the Euro 2012 football online?
Football fever has taken over Europe again and England has (rather surprisingly for many) shown some promise in its first two games. It may seem like everyone floods into their local to watch the matches, but according to new research many fans are actually choosing to watch the football online. The study conducted by discount…
Overblog launches new platform: But do we REALLY want all our online activity in one place?
This week a new blogging platform has launched and as well as allowing you to create posts and update your mum on the inane things going on in your life, it also lets you collect together all of your online activity into one place. But do we really need that kind of neat and tidy…
Keewords: An easy new way to learn language basics
A new website (with an accompanying mobile app) called Keewords, created by Perfect Fools, is here just in time for the summer holiday season to teach us the basics of 12 languages so we're not left embarrassed, confused and crazily pointing at that croissant. According to Keewords, people only need 1,500 words to understand 75%…
UPDATED: Food blogger girl banned from taking photos of her school dinners
It's not often that sleazy British tabloids and tech publications all over the globe are interested in the same stories, but today the worlds of social media and crazy UK regulations have collided as a nine year old girl who blogs about food has been banned from blogging about food. UPDATE: So it seems all…
Microsoft files for scary patent to serve up ads based on your mood
Over the past few years we've seen offline advertisers take different (and often worrying) approaches to targeting potential customers, which sometimes seem far too much like ideas taken straight from Minority Report, with different ads being shown to different genders, drivers being told where they might like to visit nearby and even ads that are…
Top celebrities you should be following on Pinterest [Part 1]
Some people choose to avoid the inane ramblings of celebrities online like the plague, whereas others seem to have made it their sole purpose in life to get re-tweeted by Katy Perry. If you fall into the second camp you'll probably already be stalking/following your favourite celebrities on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and any other place…
The best free and simple Tumblr themes: London Calling, Ultralite and Simplify
Pinterest has made us all go a little crazy for the grid-like, photo collage look when it comes to blogging. But, if you want the focus to be on your images rather than the way they look together, or you'd just like your words to stand out more, then try out one of these clean…
Pinstagram arrives on the iPad… before both Pinterest and Instagram
Pinstagram is one of those annoying mash-ups of... you guessed it... Pinterest and Instagram, but now it's got its own shiny new iPad app it might be more appealing than them both. The app allows you to see all of your Instagram feed photos in the popular Pinterest format, as well as search by keyword.…
The Oatmeal vs. FunnyJunk: Lawsuit fundraiser hits $130,000
The Oatmeal is one of our favourite online havens, with a tonne of hilarious illustrations and silly captions, which come together to create some of the best laugh out loud humour on the web. So, just like 34,939,923 others yesterday, we were shocked to see that The Oatmeal has been in a messy (and rather…
